Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 2 (Summer 2004)

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Series Details Number 2
Publication Date 2004
ISSN 1025-2266
EC KD-AB-04-002-3A-C
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Articles 

  • Regulation 1/2003 and the Modernisation Package fully applicable since 1 May 2004 by Céline GAUER, Lars KJOLBYE, Dorothe DALHEIMER, Eddy DE SMIJTER, Dominik SCHNICHELS and Maija LAURILA
  • Leniency following Modernisation: safeguarding Europe's leniency programmes by Stephen BLAKE and Dominik SCHNICHELS
  • Commission adopts new safe harbour for licensing of patents, know-how and software copyright by Luc PEEPERKORN, Lars KJOLBYE and Donncadh WOODS
  • Existing State aid in the acceding countries by Pedro DIAS

Opinions and comments 

  • The Commission's state aid policy on activities of public service broadcasters in neighbouring markets by Stefaan DEPYPERE and Nynke TIGCHELAAR

Competition Day

International

  • EU-China Dialogue on Competition formalised with the signature of Terms of Reference on May 6 2004 by Andrés FONT GALARZA
  • The launch of the new ICN Cartel Working Group by Georg ROEBLING

Antitrust 

  • Private enforcement of Community competition law: modernisation and the road ahead by Donncadh WOODS, Ailsa SINCLAIR and David ASHTON
  • Competition and the water sector by Alexander GEE
  • Access to gas pipelines: lessons learnt from the Marathon case by Mariano FERNANDEZ SALAS, Robert KLOTZ, Sophie MOONEN and Dominik SCHNICHELS
  • Commission adopts Decision in the Microsoft case by Nicholas BANASEVIC, Jean HUBY, Miguel PENA CASTELLOT, Oliver SITAR and Henri PIFFAUT
  • The Clearstream decision: the application of Article 82 to securities clearing and settlement by Eduardo MARTÍNEZ RIVERO and Rosalind BUFTON
  • Market analyses under the New Regulatory Framework for electronic communications: context and principles
  • Commission exempts vertical restraints in the Nordic pay-TV sector: Telenor/Canal+/Canal Digital by Hanns Peter NEHL
  • Using the instrument of sector-wide inquiries: Inquiry into content for 3G services by Alain CRAWFORD and Panayotis ADAMOPOULOS
  • New developments in the aviation sector. Consolidation and competition: recent competition cases by Carsten BERMIG, Michel LAMALLE and Oliver STEHMANN — New enforcement tools to tackle long haul routes: finally the King got a throne, by Sofia ALVES
  • Professional services: more competition, more competitiveness, more consumer orientation by Filippo AMATO, Ben COLLINS, Sandra DE WAELE and Ruth PASERMAN

Merger control 

  • Merger control: main developments 1 January to 30 April 2004
  • An amended merger implementing regulation for a new merger regime by Thalia LINGOS, Mary LOUGHRAN, Tina PITKANEN, Mario TODINO
  • Air Liquide / Messer: addressing the changes brought about by the concentration in the industrial gases industry by Guillaume LORIOT, Henri PIFFAUT, François-Xavier ROUXEL

State aid 

  • Reform of procedural rules for state aid cases by Annette MATTHIAS-WERNER
  • Enforcement of State aid control in the banking sector: Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG by Elke GRAEPER and Stefan MOSER
  • Commission's negative decision on Gibraltar corporation tax reform: findings on regional and material selectivity by Radoš HORACEK
  • More than 40% of aid intensity for investments in solar photovoltaic energy by Giorgio PERINI
  • The new German ship-financing guarantee schemes: Commission gives green light by Kai STRUCKMANN and Max LIENEMEYER
  • Temporary defensive mechanism to shipbuilding extended by one year by Andrea CIERNA

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Source Link https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/0389906f-d19c-44c6-a49e-c5ab7ff2e866
Alternative sources
  • https://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/cpn/cpn2004_2.pdf
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