Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 1 (February 2001)

Contents:

• European Competition Day

Latest: stop press

• Formule 1, transferts de footballeurs : deux nouvelles illustrations de l'application de la politique européenne de la concurrence au secteur du sport, par Jean-François PONS

Articles

• Competition in a Social Market economy, by Commissioner MONTI
• Horizontal Co-operation Agreements: New Rules in Force, by Joachim LÜCKING and Donncadh WOODS
• An overview of the application of the Leniency notice, by Miguel Ángel PEÑA CASTELLOT
• Patents in the Computer Industry
• "Carbonate de Soude" - La Commission réadopte 3 décisions annulées pour non-authentification, par Françoise MALBO

Opinion and comments

• Les premières exemptions par catégorie en matière d'aides d'Etat, par Adinda SINNAEVE 26 Adoption du nouvel encadrement des aides d'Etat en faveur de l'environnement, par Alain ALEXIS
• Economie souterraine - La Commisson approuve un régime italien d'aides à l'emploi visant à combattre le travail au noir, par Nicoletta FALCONE et Paola ICARDI

Anti-trust Rules 

• Commission adopts a Report on the evaluation of Regulation (EC) No 1475/95 concerning the distribution of motor vehicles and publishes two further studies, by Konrad SCHUMM and Graziella RADICE
• Triumph's export ban for motorcycles brought to an end upon Commission's intevention, by Lazaros TSORAKLIDIS
• Commission Decision of 20 September 2000 imposing a fine on Opel Nederland and General Motors Nederland for obstruction of exports of new cars from the Netherlands, by Ulrich KRAUSEHEIBER 39 Collecte et recyclage des batteries usagées en Italie : droits exclusifs, exigences environnementales et droit de la concurrence, par Vincenzo BACCARO
• Appeal against the annulment by the Court of First Instance (CFI) of a 1996 Commission decision fining German pharmaceuticals company Bayer, by Annette KLIEMANN

Mergers 

• Merger Control: main developments between 1st September 2000 and 31st December 2000, by Neil MARSHALL, Anna PAPAIOANNOU and Walter TRETTON
• The Commission's review of the media merger wave, by Valérie RABASSA

State Aid 

• Main developments between 1st October and 31st December 2000, by Madeleine TILMANS

Information Section

• Competition DG Staff list
• Documentation
• Coming Up

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source