Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 3 (2009)

Contents:

Articles

• Restructuring banks in crisis – overview of applicable State aid rules, by Andrea Bomhoff, Anna Jarosz-Friis and Nicola Pesaresi
• The 2009 broadcasting communication, by Lukas Repa, Nóra Tosics, Pedro Dias and Alberto Bacchiega
• The new State aid Broadband Guidelines: not all black and white, by Lambros Papadias, Filomena Chirico and Norbert Gaál

Antitrust 

• Final results of the Commission pharmaceutical sector inquiry: competition and regulatory concerns to address, by Fabio Domanico and Elena Kamilarova 3
• Commission finds abuse of dominance in the Intel case by Brice Allibert, Gabor Bartha, Barbara Bösze, Corneliu Hödlmayr, Damian Kaminski and Marieke Scholz Cartels
• Commission imposes heavy fine on two mayor European gas companies for operating a market-sharing agreement, by Jasmin Battista, Alexander Gee and Ulrich von Koppenfels

Mergers

• Mergers: main developments between 1 May and 31 August 2009, by John Gatti
• RWE/Essent: On the Borderline, by Miriam Driessen Reilly, Krisztian Kecsmar, Philippe Redondo, Philippe Chauve, Kristóf Kovács and Gregor Langus
• The Vattenfall / Nuon Energy case — Upholding competition on electricity retail markets in Germany, by Tiziana Lo Nardo, Martin Godfried, Kristóf Kovács
• Consolidation of the EU airline industry: How the Commission kept seatbelts fastened in the 2009 airline merger wave, by Lucia Bonova, Dagmara Koska and Axel Specker
• Electrabel/CNR: the importance of the standstill obligation in merger proceedings, by Bruno Alomar, Sophie Moonen, Gorka Navea and Philippe Redondo

State aid 

• State aid: main developments between 1 May and 31 August 2009, by Runa Monstad and Koen Van de Casteele
• Restructuring of Gdansk Shipyard – outlook good for return to viability after four-year investigation, by Agata Mazurkiewicz-Gorgol and Andrea Bomhoff

Information section 

• Organigram of the Competition Directorate-General
• Documents
• Speeches
• Press releases and memos
• Publications
• Competition cases covered in this issue

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source