Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 3 (Autumn 2006)

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Series Details Number 3
Publication Date Autumn 2006
ISSN 1025-2266
EC KD-AB-06-003-3A-C
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Articles

  • The Commission revises its Guidelines for setting fines in antitrust cases by Hubert de BROCA
  • Time to deregulate — Commission consultation on a new EU framework for electronic communications by Inge BERNAERTS
  • Public funding for broadband networks — recent developments by Lambros PAPADIAS, Alexander RIEDL and Jan Gerrit WESTERHOF
  • New Guidelines on State aid promoting risk capital investments in SMEs by Bente TRANHOLM SCHWARZ

Opinions and comments

  • The Manfredi judgment of the ECJ and how it relates to the Commission’s initiative on EC antitrust damages actions by Eddy DE SMIJTER and Denis O SULLIVAN

Antitrust

  • Commission imposes a penalty payment pursuant to Article 24 (2) of Regulation 1/2003 on Microsoft by Nicholas BANASEVIC, Adolfo BARBERÁ DEL ROSAL, Christoph HERMES, Thomas KRAMLER, Ian TAYLOR and Florence VERZELEN

Cartels

  • Commission fines seven undertakings a total of € 388 million for participating in a cartel for hydrogen peroxide and perborate by Gerald BERGER and Lorenzo PIAZZA
  • Commission fines four undertakings a total of € 344.5 million for participating in an acrylic glass cartel by Edward ANDERSON and Gerald BERGER

Merger control 

  • Merger control: Main developments between 1st May and 31st August 2006 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
  • Inco/Falconbridge: A nickel mine of applications in efficiencies and remedies by Caroline BOESHERTZ, Pierre LAHBABI and Sophie MOONEN
  • Linde/BOC: Concentration in the industries of industrial gases, specialty gases and helium by Sandra KIJEWSKI, Enrique SEPULVEDA GARCIA, Kamila KLOC-EVISON, Mariusz HUBSKI and Uli WIENRICH
  • Ineos/BP Dormagen: Illustrating the forward-looking nature of merger control analysis by Kamila KLOC-EVISON, Glykeria DEMATAKI, Enrique SEPULVEDA GARCIA; Sofia ALVES and Claes BENGTSSON

State aid

  • State aid in feed-in tariffs for green electricity by Brigitta RENNER-LOQUENZ
  • State aid and preferential tax regimes for financial holdings: The Luxembourg’s Exempt 1929 Holdings case by Pierpaolo ROSSI
  • La Commission autorise le régime de soutien français en faveur des programmes mobilisateurs pour l’innovation industrielle géré par l’Agence de l’innovation industrielle par Jean-Charles DJELALIAN et Isabelle NEALE-BESSON
  • Environmentally Friendly Engine: the Commission endorses aid for a British project led by Rolls-Royce by Almoro RUBIN DE CERVIN and Jean-Charles DJELALIAN
  • Mutualité Fonction Publique: La France accepte les propositions de la Commission par Mehdi HOCINE et Barbara JANKOVEC
  • State aid in the broadcasting sector: two decisions regarding ad hoc aid to public service broadcasters in Portugal and the Netherlands by Pedro DIAS and Jan Gerrit WESTERHOF

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Source Link https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/886dd1d1-e6fb-465f-99e4-293fb01ccdb9
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  • https://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/cpn/cpn2006_3.pdf
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