Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 3 (Autumn 2003)

Contents:

Articles

• L'arrêt Altmark Trans du 24 juillet 2003: La Cour de justice précise les conditions de financement des Services d'intérêt économique général par Alain ALEXIS
• Two Commission decisions on price abuse in the telecommunications sector by Robert KLOTZ and Jérôme FEHRENBACH
• State aid: key elements for the agreement in the Council on energy taxation by Brigitta RENNER-LOQUENZ and Daniel BOESHERTZ
• State aid control and regeneration: rubber straitjacket or passepartout? by Wouter PIEKÉ and Amir GHOREISHI

Opinions and comments

• Liberalisation and competition policy in railways by Oliver STEHMANN and Ian MACKAY
• Le caractère public d'un avantage en droit communautaire: après les arrêts PreussenElektra et Stardust par Antoine COLIN-GOGUEL
• The Article 7 consultation mechanism: managing the consolidation of the internal market for electronic communications by Reinald KRÜGER and Luca DI MAURO

International cooperation

• The International Competition Network (ICN) two years on: concrete results of a virtual network by Georg ROEBLING, Stephen A RYAN and Dan SJÖBLOM
• Competition Day in Rome

Antitrust

• Network sharing in 3rd generation mobile telecommunications systems: minding the coverage gap and complying with EC competition rules by David GABATHULER and Wolf SAUTER
• Football: joint selling of media rights by Torben TOFT
• The Commission formally rejects two complaints in the electronic monitoring services field by Miguel Ángel PEÑA CASTELLOT
• Commission settles allegations of abuse and clears patent pools in the CD market by Miguel Ángel PEÑA CASTELLOT
• Insurance Network: the ECN sectoral group on insurance by Elena CAPRIOLI
• Commission fines Yamaha for restrictions of trade and resale price maintenance in Europe by Elodie CLERC

Merger control 

• Merger control: Main developments between 1st May and 31th August 2003 by Mary LOUGHRAN, John GATTI and Ulrich von KOPPENFELS

State aid 

• Commission launches formal investigation procedure into restructuring aid in favour of British Energy plc by Anne FORT and Brice ALLIBERT
• State aid and eco-taxes: bundling of eco-taxes for State aid assessment by Johan LANNERING and Brigitta RENNER-LOQUENZ
• Emission trading - why State aid is involved: NOx trading scheme by Melvin KÖNINGS

Information section

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