Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 2 (Summer 2003)

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Series Details Number 2
Publication Date June 2003
ISSN 1025-2266
EC KD-AB-03-002-3A-C
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Articles 

  • La politique de la Commission en matière d'amendes antitrust: récents développements, perspectives d'avenir par François ARBAULT
  • The Commission closes probe into pay-TV industry in Italy approving Newscorp/Telepiù merger deal by Vincenzo BACCARO
  • Commission proposes effective enforcement rules for air transport between the Community and third countries by Monique NEGENMAN
  • The European Commission's 2002 Leniency Notice after one year of operation by Bertus VAN BARLINGEN
  • Coordination centres: the end of an era? Not quite … by Paul GREEN
  • Where state guarantees supporting commercial banking activities distort competition, they must be abolished: the case of CDC IXIS by Rosalind BUFTON

Opinions and Comments

  • Recent consolidation in the European pay-TV sector by Miguel MENDES PEREIRA
  • The judgment of the Court of First Instance concerning the transfer of capital to Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (WestLB) by Stefan MOSER and Elke GRÄPER

International cooperation

  • Canada's merger control system: a perspective from the inside by Geraldine EMBERGER

Antitrust 

  • The new insurance block exemption Regulation: a modernised framework for insurance industry and consumers, following extensive consultation by Stephen RYAN
  • The first case of application of the new motor vehicle block exemption regulation: AUDI's authorised repairers by Hubert GAMBS
  • La commission impose une amende à six fédérations françaises pour une entente dans le secteur de la viande bovine par Hubert de BROCA
  • European Commission opens up Interbrew's Belgian horeca outlets to competing beer brands by Karin ATSMA
  • Vertical and horizontal restraints in the European gas sector: lessons learnt from the DONG/DUC case by Dominik SCHNICHELS and Fabien VALLI
  • Aviation sector:
  • Commission approves partnership between British Airways and SN Brussels Airlines by Christine TOMBOY
  • Commission closes probe into major EU airlines' incentive schemes for travel agents by Christine TOMBOY and Oliver STEHMANN

Merger control

  • Study of past merger remedies by Alexander KOPKE
  • Merger Control: Main developments between 1st January 2003 and 30th April 2003 by Mary LOUGHRAN, Kay PARPLIES and Roosmarijn SCHADE

State aid 

  • The market investor principle in privatisations - European Court of Justice upholds the Commission's decision on Gröditzer Stahlwerke GmbH by Steffen SUEHNEL
  • EU — rules on State aid do not allow for export aid by Dagmar HEINISCH
  • La Commission examine un nouveau cas de coûts échoués par Brice ALLIBERT
  • Phase out of State guarantees in favour of the Austrian public banks by Renate SCHOHAJ
  • La Commission ouvre deux investigations sur les mesures de soutien public octroyées en faveur de Mobilcom et France Télécom par Davide GRESPAN et Olivia REYMOND
  • Garantie illimitée de l'État en faveur d'EDF: ouverture de la procédure formelle par Eric PAROCHE et Maria Jesús SEGURA CATALÁN

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Source Link https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/600cd468-b1ae-11e9-9d01-01aa75ed71a1
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  • https://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/cpn/cpn2003_2.pdf
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