Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 2 (2008)

Contents:

Articles

• Application of Article 21 of the Merger Regulation in the E.ON/Endesa case by Lucrezia BUSA and Elisa ZAERA CUADRADO
• The White Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules by Rainer BECKER, Nicolas BESSOT and Eddy DE SMIJTER
• Helping to combat climate change: new State aid guidelines for environmental protection by Alexander WINTERSTEIN and Bente TRANHOLM SCHWARZ

Opinions and comments 

• The E.ON seals case — €38 million fine for tampering with Commission seals by Oliver KOCH and Dominik SCHNICHELS
• Revolution or evolution in telecoms? Sub-national markets in sector-specific regulation when competition develops unevenly by Olivier BRINGER and Konrad SCHUMM
• State aid: Commission orders reimbursement of loans for 17 R&D projects in the aeronautical sector in Italy by Almorò RUBIN DE CERVIN

Antitrust

• The Commission’s sector inquiry into business insurance: outcome and next steps by Sean GREENAWAY

Cartels 

• The synthetic rubber cartel cases by Bjarke LIST and Petr SOCHMAN

Merger control 

• Mergers: Main developments between 1 January and 30 April 2008 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
• Bargaining and two-sided markets: the case of Global Distribution Systems (GDS) in Travelport´s acquisition of Worldspan by Stefano VANNINI
• Cookson/Foseco: merger of foundry industry suppliers reviewed in parallel by the EU and the US by Thomas MEHLER and Patrick D’SOUZA
• Google/DoubleClick: The first test for the Commission’s non-horizontal merger guidelines by Julia BROCKHOFF, Bertrand JEHANNO, Vera POZZATO, Carl-Christian BUHR, Peter EBERL, Penelope PAPANDROPOULOS
• The Thomson/Reuters merger investigation: a search for the relevant markets in the world of financial data by Vincenzo BACCARO

State aid 

• State aid to IBIDEN Hungary: Assessing the relevant market in the context of a large investment project by Evelina TUMASONYTĖ, Živilė DIDŽIOKAITĖ and András TARI
• State aid issues in the privatisation of public undertakings — Some recent decisions by Loredana VON BUTTLAR, Zsófia WAGNER and Salim MEDGHOUL

Information section

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