Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 2 (Summer 2003)

Contents:

Articles 

• La politique de la Commission en matière d'amendes antitrust: récents développements, perspectives d'avenir par François ARBAULT
• The Commission closes probe into pay-TV industry in Italy approving Newscorp/Telepiù merger deal by Vincenzo BACCARO
• Commission proposes effective enforcement rules for air transport between the Community and third countries by Monique NEGENMAN
• The European Commission's 2002 Leniency Notice after one year of operation by Bertus VAN BARLINGEN
• Coordination centres: the end of an era? Not quite … by Paul GREEN
• Where state guarantees supporting commercial banking activities distort competition, they must be abolished: the case of CDC IXIS by Rosalind BUFTON

Opinions and Comments

• Recent consolidation in the European pay-TV sector by Miguel MENDES PEREIRA
• The judgment of the Court of First Instance concerning the transfer of capital to Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (WestLB) by Stefan MOSER and Elke GRÄPER

International cooperation

• Canada's merger control system: a perspective from the inside by Geraldine EMBERGER

Antitrust 

• The new insurance block exemption Regulation: a modernised framework for insurance industry and consumers, following extensive consultation by Stephen RYAN
• The first case of application of the new motor vehicle block exemption regulation: AUDI's authorised repairers by Hubert GAMBS
• La commission impose une amende à six fédérations françaises pour une entente dans le secteur de la viande bovine par Hubert de BROCA
• European Commission opens up Interbrew's Belgian horeca outlets to competing beer brands by Karin ATSMA
• Vertical and horizontal restraints in the European gas sector: lessons learnt from the DONG/DUC case by Dominik SCHNICHELS and Fabien VALLI
• Aviation sector:
• Commission approves partnership between British Airways and SN Brussels Airlines by Christine TOMBOY
• Commission closes probe into major EU airlines' incentive schemes for travel agents by Christine TOMBOY and Oliver STEHMANN

Merger control

• Study of past merger remedies by Alexander KOPKE
• Merger Control: Main developments between 1st January 2003 and 30th April 2003 by Mary LOUGHRAN, Kay PARPLIES and Roosmarijn SCHADE

State aid 

• The market investor principle in privatisations - European Court of Justice upholds the Commission's decision on Gröditzer Stahlwerke GmbH by Steffen SUEHNEL
• EU — rules on State aid do not allow for export aid by Dagmar HEINISCH
• La Commission examine un nouveau cas de coûts échoués par Brice ALLIBERT
• Phase out of State guarantees in favour of the Austrian public banks by Renate SCHOHAJ
• La Commission ouvre deux investigations sur les mesures de soutien public octroyées en faveur de Mobilcom et France Télécom par Davide GRESPAN et Olivia REYMOND
• Garantie illimitée de l'État en faveur d'EDF: ouverture de la procédure formelle par Eric PAROCHE et Maria Jesús SEGURA CATALÁN

Information section

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