Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 2 (Summer 2006)

Contents:

Articles

• OECD peer review gives positive assessment on competition policy and enforcement in the European Union by Sari SUURNÄKKI
• Preliminary results of Commission sector inquiry in payment cards industry raise competition concerns by Magdalena BRENNING-LOUKO, Tatyana PANOVA, Lukas REPA and Antonio Carlos TEIXEIRA

Competition day 

• From the Competition day in Vienna 19 June

Antitrust 

• Prokent/Tomra, a textbook case? Abuse of dominance under perfect information by Frank MAIER-RIGAUD and Dovile VAIGAUSKAITE
• REPSOL: Opening up the fuel distribution system in Spain by Philippe CHAUVE
• De Beers: commitments to phase out diamond purchases from the most important competitor by Harald MISCHE and Blaž VIŠNAR
• Multi-brand distribution and access to repairer networks under Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation 1400/2002: the experience of the BMW and General Motors cases by Rainer BECKER and Iona HAMILTON

Merger control

• Merger control: Main developments between 1 January and 30 April 2006 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
• T-Mobile Austria/tele.ring: Remedying the loss of a maverick by Johannes LUEBKING
• Siemens/VA Tech: A case of bidding markets and minority stakes by Rainer BECKER, Claes BENGTSSON, Kay PARPLIES, Stephan SIMON, Walter TRETTON and Ulrich VON KOPPENFELS
• DONG/Elsam/E2: Remedying competition problems in an energy merger through infrastructure unbundling and gas release by Claes BENGTSSON, Peter EBERL, Kristóf KOVÁCS, Søren Bo RASMUSSEN and Walter TRETTON

State aid

• Commission requests phasing out of Spain’s export related tax incentives by Marek HERM and Pierpaolo ROSSI
• Commission finds public participation in Austrian securitisation scheme is not State aid by Almorò RUBIN DE CERVIN and Volker ZULEGER
• State aid for biofuels by Anne Theo SEINEN and Johanna BERNSEL
• Forfeiting financing and the construction of the waste-fuelled power station (Müllheizkraftwerk) MHKW Rothensee GmbH by Joerg KOEHLI and Volker ZULEGER

Information section

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