Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 1 (February 2000)

Contents:

• European Competition Day in Lisbon

Articles

• The case Totalfina/Elf Aquitaine: preserving a contestable and competitive market in an industry that is of a particularly sensitive nature to the consumer, by Alexander SCHAUB, Claude RAKOVSKY, Henri PIFFAUT and Peter DE LUYCK
• Nordic Satellite Cases, by Andrew HOBBS

Opinion and comments

• Who can be the beneficiary of a State aid, by Ben SLOCOCK

Anti-trust Rules 

• Commission approves an agreement to improve energy efficiency of washing machines, by Manuel MARTíNEZ LÓPEZ
• La Commission inflige des amendes à un cartel de producteurs de tubes d'acier sans soudure pour partage de marchés, par Ingrid BREIT et Francisco PÉREZ FLORES
• The Commission fines FEG, the Dutch association of electrotechnical equipment wholesalers and its biggest member TU, by Ernst FERDINANDUSSE

Mergers 

• Recent developments and important decisions, by Tiina PITKÄNEN and Neil MARSHALL
• Commission fines Deutsche post, KLM, Anheuser-Busch and Scottish & Newcastle for supplying incorrect or misleading information in competition procedures, by Holger DIECKMANN, Gudrun SCHMIDT, Matthijs VISSER and Nils VON HINTEN-REED
• Case No COMP/JV.26 - FreeCom / Dangaard Holding
• Commission authorises creation of joint venture BOL Spain by Bertelsmann AG and Planeta Corporación S.R.L., by Hubert GAMBS
• Commission authorises takeover of Cdnow by Time Warner and Sony, by Ali NIKPAY
• La Commission européenne autorise la création de l'entreprise commune Hearst Mondadori Editoriale SRL, by Jacques LOVERGNE

State Aid 

• The Multisectoral framework on regional aid for large investment projects: a mid-term review, by Adolfo BARBERÁ DEL ROSAL
• Main developments between 1st September and 31st December 1999

Information Section 

• Competition DG Staff list
• Documentation
• Coming up

• Alternative Source 1