Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 1 (February 1999)

Contents:

Articles

• The euro and competition, by JeanFrançois PONS and Joachim LÜCKING
• EC competition law and digital pay television, by Linsey MC CALLUM

Anti-Trust Rules 

• Recent Commission Decisions concerning the scope of the Group Exemption for Liner Conferences, by David Wood
• Changement important dans la structure de la DG IV, par Maurice GUERRIN
• New procedures for anti-trust cases: hearings, and notification of transport cases, by Téa MÄKELÄ and Charles WILLIAMS
• Cartel enforcement, by Julian JOSHUA
• SICASOV - La Commission exempte des accords types de production et de vente de semences protégées par des droits d’obtention végétale en France, by Claudio MENIS
• The Commission fines a cartel of British sugar producers and merchants, by Rüdiger DOHMS and Matthijs VISSER
• Greene King / Roberts, by Nils VON HINTEN-REED
• Info-Lab/Ricoh, by Elke FISCHER
• Decision of the Commission dated 9/12/98 in case IV/34.466-Greek Ferries, by Panayotis ADAMOPOULOS
• EUDIM : complément d’information

Mergers 

• Recent Developments and Important Decisions, by John KEMP

State Aid

• Unanimous agreement in the Council on the procedural regulation, by Adinda SINNAEVE
• Principaux développements du 1er octobre au 31 décembre 1998, par Madeleine TILMANS

International

• Organisation mondiale du commerce, par Pierre ARHEL
• Enlargement, by Maria BLÄSSAR and Joos STRAGIER

Competition policy in the Central and eastern European Countries 

• Hungary : Matáv / Jász-Tel concentration, by Gizella GYORKI

Information section

• DG IV Staff list
• Documentation
• Coming up
• CASES COVERED IN THIS ISSUE

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