Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 1 (Spring 2005)

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Series Details Number 1
Publication Date Spring 2005
ISSN 1025-2266
EC KD-AB-05-001-3A-C
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Articles 

  • A new perspective for Spanish shipyards — reducing distortions in shipbuilding by Hans BERGMAN and Kai STRUCKMANN
  • State aid rules and public funding of broadband by Monika HENCSEY, Olivia REYMOND, Alexander RIEDL, Sandro SANTAMATO and Jan Gerrit WESTERHOF
  • State aid aspects in the implementation of the Emission Trading Scheme by Brigitta RENNER-LOQUENZ
  • The Court of Justice rules for the first time on Article 21(3) of the Merger Regulation in case C-42/01 Portuguese Republic v. Commission by Téa MÄKELÄ

Opinions and comments 

  • Profit splitting mechanisms in a liberalised gas market: the devil lies in the detail by Harold NYSSENS and Iain OSBORNE 31 The BdKEP decision: the application of competition law to the partially liberalised postal sector by Manuel MARTINEZ LOPEZ and Silke OBST
  • Capacity limitations for shipyards in the context of the Court of Justice' judgement on Kvaerner Warnow Werft (KWW) by Joerg KOEHLI

International/Enlargement 

  • Next EU enlargement: Romania and State aid control by Koen VAN DE CASTEELE

Competition Day

  • European Competition day in Luxembourg

Antitrust

  • Les décisions GDF La Commission est formelle: les clauses de restriction territoriale dans les contrats de gaz violent l'article 81 par Concetta CULTRERA
  • Two recent veto decisions under the new Regulatory framework for electronic communications — The importance of competition law principles in market analysis by Dirk GREWE, András G. INOTAI and Stefan KRAMER
  • The Court of First Instance rejects Microsoft's request for interim measures concerning the Commission's decision of 24 March 2004 by Cecilio MADERO, Nicholas BANASEVIC, Christoph HERMES, Jean HUBY and Thomas KRAMLER
  •  The needles case: how to find within a complex scheme of bilateral agreements, a tripartite market sharing agreement by Christian ROQUES

Cartels

  • Comment un armistice se transforme en cartel sur le marché de la bière française by Ann RUTGEERTS
  • Commission fines companies for colluding on raw tobacco prices in Spain by Carlota REYNERS FONTANA, Massimo DE LUCA and Rafael MORILLAS
  • Commission adopts cartel decision imposing fines on copper plumbing tube producers by Harald MISCHE
  • Commission fines members of the monochloroacetic acid cartel by Christopher MAYOCK

Merger control 

  • Merger control: Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2004 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
  • First experiences with the new merger regulation: Piaggio / Aprilia by Mario TODINO
  • EDP/ENI/GDP: the Commission prohibits a merger between gas and electricity national incumbents by Giuseppe CONTE, Guillaume LORIOT, François-Xavier ROUXEL and Walter TRETTON

State aid control

  • Décision finale positive dans le dossier des centres de coordination belges par Jean-Marc HUEZ
  • State aid for restructuring the steel industry in the new Member States by Max LIENEMEYER
  • Flemish region authorized to participate in the capital increase of the R&D company OCAS by Christophe GALAND
  • Aid in favour of Trinecké Zelezárny, a.s. a steel producer in the Czech Republic by Ewa SZYMANSKA
  • German Landesbanken: Recovery of more than €3 billion, plus interest, from WestLB and six other public banks by Martha CAMBAS, Elke GRÄPER, Stefan MOSER, Yvonne SIMON and Annette SÖLTER

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Source Link Link to Main Source https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/53d96b2e-49eb-4947-9767-e7cca4bd6f40
Alternative sources
  • https://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/cpn/cpn2005_1.pdf
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