Competition policy newsletter

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  Año 2007, Número 1

  • Articles

    • Comission´s enforcement record in 2006

      Phil Lowe

      págs. 1-2

      

    • The new community framework for state aid for research and development and innovation

      Thibaut Kleiner, Renate Repplinger-Hach

      págs. 3-6

      

    • Comission adopts revised Leniency Notice to reward companies that report hard-core cartels

      Maria Luisa Tierno Centella, Sari Suurnakki

      págs. 5-15

      

    • Commission launches public consultation on draft Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines

      Giuseppe Conte, Kay Parplies, Vincent Verouden

      págs. 16-19

      

    • Milestones in maritime transport: EU ends exceptions

      Fabrizia Benini, Carsten Bermig

      págs. 20-22

      

  • Opinions and Comments

    • Effective unbundling of energy transmission networks: lessons from the Energy Sector Inquiry

      Philip Lowe, Ingrida Pucinskaite, William Webster, Patrick Lindberg

      págs. 23-34

      

    • ECN Model Leniency Programme - a first step towards a harmonised leniency policy in the EU

      Maria Jaspers, Céline Gauer

      págs. 35-38

      

    • Competition in Pharmaceuticals: the challenges ahead post AstraZeneca

      Nadia de Souza

      págs. 39-43

      

    • State aid for films - a policy in motion?

      Jerôme Broche, Obhi Chaterjee, Irina Orssich, Nora Tosics

      págs. 44-48

      

    • Solving problems at the sources: why telecommunications regulation should focus on wholesale, not on retail, markets

      Iratxe Gurpegui, Przemyslaw Kordasiewicz

      págs. 49-54

      

  • Antitrust

    • The Energy Sector Inquiry: conclusions and way forward

      Eleonora Waktare, Kristóf Kovacs, Alexander Gee

      págs. 55-59

      

    • Sector Inquiry Identifies Widespread Competition Barriers in Retail Banking

      Elena Caprioli, Elke Graeper, Agata Malczewska, Tanya Panova, Jean Allix

      págs. 60-61

      

    • Sector Inquiry into Business Insurance - Commission seeks comments on Interim Report

      Christoph Emsbach, Mourad Haddad, Antonio Carlos Teixeira, Concetta Cultrera

      págs. 62-64

      

  • Cartels

    • Commission fines copper fittings producers 314.7 million euros for price fixing cartel

      Glykeria Demataki, Rainer Wessely

      págs. 65-67

      

    • Commission fines producers and traders of synthetic ruber 519 million euro for price fixing and market sharing cartel

      Massimo de Luca, Bjarke List

      págs. 68-70

      

    • Commission fines fourteen undertaskings a total of 266 million for participating in a cartel for a road pavement bitumen in the Netherlands

      Jan Nuijten, Bertus van Barlingen

      págs. 71-73

      

    • Commission re-adopts cartel decisions in the seel sector

      Téa Katarina Broms, Susanne Lageard

      págs. 74-76

      

  • Merger Control

    • Mergers - Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2006

      John Gatti, Mary Loughran

      págs. 77-82

      

    • Gaz de France/Suez: Keeping energy markets in Belgium and France open and contestable trough far-reaching remedies

      Philippe Redondo, Giuseppe Conte, Peter Eberl, Geert Wils

      págs. 83-91

      

    • Empirical estimation of a discrete choice moddel for filler calcium carbonates in the paper industry

      Benoît Durand, Enrico Pesaresi

      págs. 92-100

      

  • State Aid

    • ECJ Judgement of 5 october 2006 comission v. france: A major step forward for the recovery policy

      Bernardette Willemot, Anne Fort

      págs. 101-103

      

    • Recent trainning aid cases in the car industry

      Andrés Garcia Bermudez, Christophe Galand

      págs. 104-108

      

    • Regional investment aid to the shipbuilding industry: How to deal with capacity increases? - Experience with the Volkswerft Stralsund and Rolandwerft cases

      Sabine Crome, Charlotte Dupuis

      págs. 109-113

      

    • State aid to an electronics cluster in Poland: Assessing regional investment projects in the context of spatial agglomeration

      Agnieszka Drzewoska, Jaime Rojo de la Viesca, András Tari

      págs. 114-120

      

    • Poste Italiane: a market fee can fulfil the Altmarck criteria

      Paola Icardi, Daniel Boeshertz

      págs. 121-123

      

    • Utilisation d´avances remboursables pour aider la R&D: mise en ligne du régime belge en faveur du secteur aéronautique

      Leen de Vreese, Jean-Charles Djelalian

      págs. 124-126

      

    • Clarification of the procedure for terminating rescue aid where the presentation of a restructuring plan does not justify the prolongation - comment on the decisions in case of rescue aid to CIT and Ottana

      Max Lienemeyer

      págs. 127-129

      

    • Two Dutch cases on state aid and soil rehabilitation

      Saskia Dirkzwager-de Rijk

      págs. 130-134

      

    • Information Section

      pág. 135