Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 3 (October 2002)

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Series Details Number 3
Publication Date October 2002
ISSN 1025-2266
EC KD-AB-02-002-3A-C
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Articles

  • New rules for motor vehicle distribution and servicing by John CLARK
  • Judicial review and merger control: The CFI's expedited procedure by Kyriakos FOUNTOUKAKOS
  • The Council approves the commission's twin-track strategy against unfair Korean practices in the shipbuilding sector by Sean BRADLEY and Hans BERGMAN

Opinions and Comments 

  • An example of the application of State aid rules in the utilities sector in Italy by Davide GRESPAN

International cooperation 

  • Enhanced EU-Japan co-operation: the Commission proposes to conclude an agreement by Yves DEVELLENNES and Georgios KIRIAZIS

European Competition Day in Copenhagen by Ansgar HELD

European Competition Day in Athens

Antitrust

  • Commission fines eight Austrian banks for participating in the ‘Lombard Club’ cartel by Alexander WINTERSTEIN
  • Clarifying the application of the competition rules to card payment systems: the Commission's exemption decision on the Multilateral Interchange Fees of Visa International by Stephen RYAN
  • Commission publishes for comments a draft block exemption regulation for the insurance sector by Stephen RYAN
  • Aviation: Combining network synergies and competition — the Commission's approval of the LH-AuA Alliance by Oliver STEHMANN
  • Aviation: Commission raises competition concerns about co-operation agreement between Air France and Alitalia by Michel LAMALLE and Eduardo MARTÍNEZ RIVERO
  • Aviation: Renewal of block exemption Regulation 1617/93 by Monique NEGENMAN
  • Deux nouvelles décisions clarifiant les règles sportives qui échappent aux règles de concurrence par Corrine DUSSART-LEFRET et Christine SOTTONG-MICAS
  • Liberalisation of European Gas Markets: Commission settles GFU case with Norwegian gas producers by Maarit LINDROOS, Dominik SCHNICHELS and Lars Peter SVANE
  • Commission fines participants in the industrial gases cartel by Isabelle KRAUSS
  • Commission adopts cartel decision imposing fines in methionine (animal feed) cartel by Sam PIETERS
  • Commission closes probe into IBM's licensing terms for speech recognition engines by Magdalena BRENNING

Merger control 

  • Main developments in merger control — main developments between 1st May and 31th August 2002 by Mary LOUGHRAN, Kay PARPLIES and Roosmarijn SCHADE

State aid cases 

  • Commission raises no objections to German feed-in laws for electricity from Renewable Energy Sources and Combined Heat and Power by Brigitta RENNER-LOQUENZ and Volker ZULEGER
  • La Commission autorise des aides en faveur de deux projets énergétiques basques par Fernando CASTILLO BADAL
  • Clarification on the interpretation of the de minimis rule in State aid: the European Court of Justice upholds the Commission's Dutch service station decision by Magdalena BRENNING

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