Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 1 (Spring 2006)

Contents:

Articles

• Green Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules by Eddy DE SMIJTER, Constanze STROPP and Donncadh WOODS
• Commission publishes discussion paper on abuse of dominance by Luc PEEPERKORN
• The European Competition Network Achievements and challenges — a case in point: leniency by Céline GAUER and Maria JASPERS
• European Energy Sector — Quo vadis? First results of the Sector Inquiry by Iain OSBORNE and Augustijn VAN HAASTEREN
• New guidelines on national regional aid for 2007–2013 by Paraskevi PAPANTONIOU

Opinions and comments

• The Commission’s state aid policy on the digital switchover by Christof SCHOSER and Sandro SANTAMATO
• How to strengthen competition advocacy through competition screening by Geraldine EMBERGER
• Regulation of electronic communications — time for a review? by Dirk GREWE and András G. INOTAI

Competition day

• Competition day in Vienna 19 June 2006

Antitrust 

• The Commission proposes to repeal the Liner Conference Block Exemption by Fabrizia BENINI and Carsten BERMIG
• Parallel import of motor vehicles: the Peugeot case by Christophe DUSSART
• Competition issues in waste management systems by Philip KIENAPFEL and Gerald MIERSCH

Cartels 

• Developments in cartel case-law: Commission decisions and Court judgments of 2005 by Milan KRIŠTOF
• La Commission inflige une amende de 290 millions d’euros à seize entreprises du secteur des sacs industriels, pour participation à un cartel par Jean-Jérôme JUNG et Isabelle KRAUSS
• Commission fines nine companies a total of € 43.5 million for participating in industrial thread cartels by Elodie CLERC
• Commission fines 3 undertakings a total of € 76 million for participating in rubber chemicals cartel by Erja ASKOLA

Merger control

• Merger control: Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2005 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
• A combination of gas release programmes and ownership unbundling as remedy to a problematic energy merger: E.ON / MOL by Csilla BARTOK, Sophie MOONEN, Pierre LAHBABI, Alessandro PAOLICCHI and Miguel DE LA MANO
• Consolidation in container liner shipping — Merger control aspects by Fabrizia BENINI, Richard GADAS and Gerald MIERSCH

State aid 

• La filialisation des services financiers de La Poste (France): une application concrète de la jurisprudence Chronopost par Bernadette FRÉDÉRICK
• Commission rules subsidy for digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) in Berlin-Brandenburg illegal by Christof SCHOSER
• State aid to digital decoders: proportionality is needed to meet common interest by Sandro Santamato and Matteo SALTO
• The restructuring of Huta Czestochowa — the Commission’s decision finding compliance with private creditor test but ordering recovery of some previously granted restructuring aid by Max LIENEMEYER
• Commission’s suspension injunction against illegal tax exempt fund in Greece by Radoš HORÁČEK
• Exemptions from the fuel excise tax for alumina production by Anne Theo SEINEN and Céline GUILLEMAUT

Chief Economist team 

• Applying the Market Economy Investor Principle to State Owned Companies — Lessons Learned from the German Landesbanken Cases by Hans W. FRIEDERISZICK and Michael TRÖGE
• News from the Chief Economist Team

Information section

• Alternative Source 1