Press Release: Antitrust: E.ON’s commitments open up German gas market to competitors

The European Commission adopted on 4 May 2010 a decision that renders legally binding commitments offered by E.ON to effectively open up access to the German gas market thereby addressing concerns that it may have unfairly shut out competitors in a possible abuse of its dominant market position (see MEMO/09/567). After the recent decisions involving RWE in Germany and GDF Suez in France, this is now the ninth major decision since the 2007 energy sector competition inquiry that had shown consumers and businesses were losing out because of inefficient and expensive markets

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European Commission: Memo: MEMO/10/164:Antitrust: Commission's commitment decision opens German gas pipelines to competitors – frequently asked questions http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/164&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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