Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 3 (October 1999)

Contents:

Articles 

• Livre blanc sur la modernisation des règles d'application des articles 81 et 82 du Traité, Céline Gauer

Opinion and Comments 

• The British Interactive Broadcasting Decision and the application of competition rules to the new digital interactive television services, Andres FONT GALARZA
• One step beyond in the application of the essential facility theory, Enrico Maria ARMANI
• Alitalia-KLM: a new trend in assessing airline alliances ?, Enrico Maria ARMANI

Anti-trust rules 

• Commission sets out its policy on commissions paid by airlines to travel agents, John FINNEGAN
• Revised TACA, Charles WILLIAMS
• Commission renews the exemption of United International Pictures BV, Torben TOFT
• Décision d'exemption du 3 mars 1999 relative à la création de TPS - Télévision Par Satellite, Jacques LOVERGNE
• La Commission approuve le nouveau système d'échanges d'informations entre producteurs de tracteurs et machines agricoles, Lazaros TSORAKLIDIS
• The Commission approves joint venture between P&W and GE for new aircraft engine, Monika EKSTRÖM
• Monitoring of Regulation (EC) n° 1475/95 concerning the distribution of motor vehicles, Ulrich KRAUSE-HEIBER
• UK Beer Cases, Nils VON HINTEN-REED

Mergers

• Fujitsu/Siemens : la structure des marché comme indice d'une possible coordination, Christophe LEROUGE et Tilman LÜDER
• Recent Developments and Important Decisions, Tiina PITKÄNEN and John KEMP

State Aid 

• Most recent developments, Madeleine TILMANS
• Competition policy in the Central and Eastern European countries
• Competiton policy in transition economies: the case of Romania, Dr. Georghe OPRESCU and Eric D. ROHLCK

Information Section 

• DG COMPETITION Staff List
• Documentation
• Coming up

CASES COVERED IN THIS ISSUE 

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

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