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Contents:
Articles
- Commission adopts communication on state aid and risk capital, by Ben SLOCOCK
- Revision of the 1997 Notice on agreements of minor importance (de minimis Notice), by Luc PEEPERKORN
Opinions and comments
- Distribution sélective et Internet, by Manuel MARTÍNEZ-LÓPEZ
- Structural versus behavioural remedies: American hesitations in the telecommunications sector, by Christophe de LA ROCHEFORDIERE
- Use of EC Competition Rules in the Liberalisation of the European Union's Telecommunications Sector: Assessment of Past Experience and some Conclusions, by Herbert UNGERER
Antitrust
- L'arrêt Aéroports de Paris: un arrêt important qui confirme la politique de la Commission dans le secteur des infrastructures aéroportuaires, by Corinne DUSSART-LEFRET
- Commission acts against Duales System Deutschland AG for the abuse of a dominant position, by Michael GREMMINGER and Gerald MIERSCH
- Commission Decision prohibits Glaxo Wellcome's Spanish pricing system, by Annette KLIEMANN
- Commission fines JCB Service for its restrictive distribution agreements in several Member States, by Manuel MARTÍNEZ-LÓPEZ
- First decision concerning retail price maintenance: Commission imposes a e 30.96 million fine on Volkswagen AG for retail price maintenance measures on the German market, by Ulrich KRAUSE-HEIBER and Konrad SCHUMM
- Audition des 13 et 14 février 2001 concernant le Rapport d'évaluation du règlement (CE) n° 1475/95 de la Commission sur la distribution automobile, par Nieves NAVARRO-BLANCO et Christophe DUSSART
- Commission terminates infringement procedure against production and sales license agreements between Philip Morris and Altadis, by Carlota REYNERS FONTANA
- Dutch fishermen are allowed to land and auction catches in foreign ports as result of Commission's investigation, by Barbara NIJS
Merger control
- Main developments between 1st January 2001 and 30th April 2001, by Neil MARSHALL, Carina JOERGENSEN and Kay PARPLIES
State aid
- Main developments between 1st February and 31st May 2001:
- Germany — Recent developments on State guarantees for German public banks, by Karl SOUKUP and Stefan MOSER
- United Kingdom — The Enhanced Capital Allowances scheme does not constitute State aid under article 87 (1) CE, by Brigitta RENNER
- Germany — Prolongation of the ‘Beteiligungskapital für kleine Technologieunternehmen’, a risk capital scheme for small technology companies, by Brigitta RENNER
- Italy — Commission raises no objections to an aid in favour of ‘ST Microelectronics’ for three high-tech R&D projects in microchips, by Brice ALLIBERT
- United Kingdom — Commission takes a decision on the Climate Change Levy (CCL). It authorizes several exemptions but opens the 88 (2) EC procedure on the exemption for dual use fuels, by Brigitta RENNER 5
- Germany — Commission concluded its investigation and authorised the restructuring aid for the construction company Philipp Holzmann AG, by Elke GRAEPER
Information section
- Competition DG staff list
- Documentation
- Competition-related items published in the Official Journal
- Press releases on competition
- Court of Justice/Court of First Instance
- Competition DG's address on the world wide web
- Coming up
- Index of cases covered in this issue of the Competition Policy NewsletterContents
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