Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 1 (2008)

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Series Details Number 1
Publication Date 2008
ISSN 1025-2266
EC KD-AB-08-001-3A-C
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Articles

  • Commission prohibits MasterCard’s multilateral interchange fees for cross-border card payments in the EEA by Lukas REPA, Agata MALCZEWSKA, Antonio Carlos TEIXEIRA and Eduardo MARTINEZ RIVERO
  • The new Commission Notice on the recovery of unlawful and incompatible State aid by Christof LESSENICH, Marek KOSKA and Nuria MARIÑAS
  • The Regional State Aid Maps for 2007-2013: Less and better targeted regional aid by Patrick DE RIDDER
  • EU competition policy and aid for the outermost regions by Jaime ROJO DE LA VIESCA and Brigitte LEMOIGNE

Opinions and comments

  • Fortis/ABN AMRO: When do bank mergers raise competition concerns? by Adriaan BROUWER, Kay PARPLIES, Elisa ZAERA-CUADRADO, ELKE GRAEPER, and Erika JAKAB
  • The notion of economic advantage in the context of reforms to pension regimes by Daniel BOESHERTZ and Bernadette FREDERICK

Antitrust 

  • Decision against the Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (CB) by Eduardo MARTÍNEZ RIVERO and Guillaume SCHWALL
  • Commission fines Visa International and Visa Europe for not admitting Morgan Stanley Bank as a member by Eduardo MARTÍNEZ RIVERO and Guillaume SCHWALL
  • Commission launches sector inquiry into pharmaceuticals by Monica ALFARO MURCIA, Philipp GASPARON, Sune LARSEN, Harald MISCHE and Bertus VAN BARLINGEN

Cartels 

  • Recent cartel decisions by Josefine HEDERSTRÖM, Lars ALBATH and Chris MAYOCK

Merger control 

  • Mergers: Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2007 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
  • Ineos/Kerling: Raising the standard for geographic market definition? by Lucia BONOVA, Denis CORRIVEAU, Kamila KLOC-EVISON and Enrique SEPÚLVEDA GARCÍA
  • Ineos/Kerling merger: an example of quantitative analysis in support of a clearance decision by Andrea AMELIO, Miguel DE LA MANO and Manuel GODINHO DE MATOS
  • ECJ upholds Commission decision in Dutch building materials case CVK by Gudrun SCHMIDT, Ulrich VON KOPPENFELS and Vincent VEROUDEN

State aid

  • Misuse of restructuring aid in the steel sector — or some remarks on the monitoring of Polish and Czech steel restructuring from the point of view of State aid control by Max LIENEMEYER and Agata MAZURKIEWICZ-GORGOL
  • Italy gets all clear for R&D tax credits by Almorò RUBIN DE CERVIN
  • Citynet Amsterdam: an application of the market economy investor principle in the electronic communications sector by Norbert GAÁL, Lambros PAPADIAS and Alexander RIEDL

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Source Link https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/c2913522-1c97-4b15-ab48-747e70a2b380
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  • https://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/cpn/cpn2008_1.pdf
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