Competition policy newsletter

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  Año 2002, Número 3

  • Articles

    • Introduction

      Philip Lowe

      págs. 1-2

      

    • New rules for motor vehicle distribution and servicing

      John Clark

      págs. 3-6

      

    • Judicial review and merger control: The CFI's expedited procedure

      Kyriakos Fountoukakos

      págs. 7-12

      

    • The Council approves the commission's twin-track strategy against

      Sean Bradley, Hans Bergman

      págs. 13-16

      

  • Opinions and Comments

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

      Davide Grespan

      págs. 17-24

      

  • International cooperation

    • Enhanced EU-Japan co-operation: The Commission proposes to conclude an agreement

      Yves Devellennes, Georgios Kiriazis

      págs. 25-28

      

    • European Competition Day in Copenhagen

      Ansgar Held

      pág. 29

      

    • European Competition Day in Athens

      pág. 30

      

  • Antitrust

    • Commission fines eight Austrian banks for participating in the "Lombard Club" cartel

      Alexander Winterstein

      págs. 31-32

      

    • Clarifying the application of the competition rules to card payment systems: the Commission´s exemption decision on the Multilateral Interchange Fees of Visa International

      Stephen Ryan

      págs. 33-35

      

    • Commission publishes for comments a draft block exemption regulation for the insurance sector

      Stephen Ryan

      págs. 36-38

      

    • Aviation: Combining network synergies and competition - the Commission's approval of the LH-AuA Alliance

      Oliver Stehmann

      págs. 39-43

      

    • Aviation: Commission raises competition concerns about co-operation agreement between Air France and Alitalia

      Michel Lamalle, Eduardo Martinez Rivero

      pág. 44

      

    • Aviation: Renewal of block exemption Regulation 1617/93

      Monique Negenman

      pág. 45

      

    • Deux nouvelles décisions clarifiant les règles sportives qui échappent aux règles de concurrence

      Corinne Dussart-Lefret, Christine Sottong-Micas

      págs. 46-49

      

    • Liberalisation of European Gas Markets: Commission settles GFU case with Norwegian gas producers

      Maarit Lindroos, Dominik Schnichels, Lars Peter Svane

      págs. 50-52

      

    • Commission fines participants in the industrial gases cartel

      Isabelle Krauss

      págs. 53-54

      

    • Commission adopts cartel decision imposing fines in methionine (animal feed) cartel

      Sam Pieters

      págs. 55-56

      

    • Commission closes probe into IBM'S licensing terms for speech recognition engines

      Magdalena Brenning-Louko

      págs. 57-58

      

  • Merger control

    • Main developments in merger control-main developments between 1st May and 31th August 2002

      Mary Loughran, Kay Parplies, Roosmarijn Schade

      págs. 59-66

      

  • State aid cases

    • Commission raises no objections to german feed in laws for electricity from Renewable Energy Sources and Combined Heat and Power

      Brigitta Renner-Loquenz, Volker Zuleger

      pág. 67

      

    • La Commission autorise des aides en faveur de deux projets énergétiques basques

      Fernando Castillo Badal

      pág. 68

      

    • Clarification on the interpretation of the minimis rule in State aid: the European Court of Justice upholds the Commission's Dutch service station decision

      Magdalena Brenning-Louko

      págs. 69-72

      

    • Information section

      pág. 73