Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 2 (June 2000)

Contents:

Articles 

• “Who will be in the driver’s seat?”, by Mario MONTI, Commissioner of the European Commission, responsible for Competition
• The Commission's review of the Aluminium merger wave, by Dimitri GIOTAKOS, Merger Task Force
• Horizontal agreements on energy efficiency of appliances : a comparison between CECED and CEMEP, by Manuel MARTÍNEZ-LÓPEZ, DG COMP-F-1 26 The Grand Alliance, by Eric FITZGERALD, DG COMP-D-2
• Plaintes contre des droits exclusifs en matière de jeux de hasard rejetées, par Maija LAURILA, DG COMP-D-3
• The Commission's assessment of the Eurovision system pursuant to Article 81 EC, by Andrés FONT GALARZA, DG COMP-C-2

Opinion and comments 

• Le dégroupage de la boucle locale : un pas de plus dans la libéralisation des télécommunications. Exemple de complémentarité entre la régulation sectorielle et les règles de concurrence du Traité, par Christophe de LA ROCHEFORDIERE, DG COMP-C-1

Anti-trust Rules 

• HORIZONTAL CO-OPERATION AGREEMENTS: Ensuring a modern policy, by Joachim LÜCKING, DG COMP-A-1

Mergers

• Case N°: COMP/M. 1672 – Volvo/Scania, by Dan SJOBLOM, Merger Task Force
• Main developments between 1st January and 30 April 2000, by Anna PAPAIOANNOU, Walter TRETTON and Neil MARSHALL, Merger Task Force

Liberalisation and State intervention

• Long-term supply agreements in the context of gas market liberalisation: Commission closes investigation of Gas Natural, by Mariano FERNÁNDEZ SALAS, DG COMP-E-3

State Aid 

• Main developments between 1st January and 30 April 2000

Information Section

• Competition DG Staff list
• Documentation
• Coming up

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