Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 3 (2007)

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Series Details Number 3
Publication Date 2007
ISSN 1025-2266
EC KD-AB-07-003-3A-C
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Articles 

  • Commission adopts Jurisdictional Notice under the Merger Regulation by Johannes LÜBKING
  • The application of Articles 81 and 82 EC in the sport sector by Andreas STEIN and Philip KIENAPFEL
  • Public procurement and State aid control — the issue of economic advantage by Nóra TOSICS and Norbert GAÁL

Opinions and comments

  • Territorial restrictions and profit sharing mechanisms in the gas sector: the Algerian case by Eleonora WÄKTARE
  • Margin squeeze in the Spanish broadband market: a rational and profitable strategy by Jean-Christian LE MEUR, Iratxe GURPEGUI and Katja VIERTIÖS
  • OTE is calling: Who’s going to pick up this call? Is it for the State? — Reflexions on the recent Commission’s State aid decision by Lambros PAPADIAS
  • Intellectual property rights in standard setting from a competition law perspective by Grazyna PIESIEWICZ and Ruben SCHELLINGERHOUT

Antitrust 

  • The judgment of the Court of First Instance in the Microsoft case by Thomas KRAMLER, Carl-Christian BUHR, Devi WYNS
  • Commission brings air transport in line with other industries by phasing out the block exemptions that have existed in this sector since 1988 by Hubert BEUVE-MÉRY and Michal STRUK
  • The Court of First Instance confirms Duales System Deutschland’s abuse of dominance in the packaging recycling system by Michael GREMMINGER and Gerald MIERSCH
  • Four decisions bind DaimlerChrysler, Fiat, Toyota and General Motors to commitments to give independent repairers proper access to repair information by John CLARK and Anna NYKIEL-MATEO

Cartels

  • Commission fines Dutch brewers over €273 million for a beer cartel by Geert WILS

Merger control

  • Mergers: Main developments between 1st May and 31st August 2007 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
  • Ryanair/Aer Lingus: Even “low-cost” monopolies can harm consumers by Richard GADAS, Oliver KOCH, Kay PARPLIES and Hubert BEUVE-MERY
  • Econometric and survey evidence in the competitive assessment of the Ryanair-Aer Lingus merger by Miguel DE LA MANO, Enrico PESARESI and Oliver STEHMAN
  • The Court of First Instance confirms clearance of the Apollo / Akzo Nobel IAR merger by Enrique SEPULVEDA GARCIA
  • Universal / BMG: Market power of music publishers in view of evolutions in digital music publishing by Johannes LÜBKING, Sandra KIJEWSKI, Franck DUPONT, Bertrand JEHANNO and Peter EBERL

State aid 

  • Transparency system for large regional investment projects by Leen DE VREESE
  • Facing the challenges of globalisation: aid to outward foreign direct investment projects (cases Cordex, Orfama and Djebel) by Graça DA COSTA
  • Soutien de l’agence française de l’innovation industrielle au programme TVMSL: deuxième aide individuelle approuvée en application du nouvel encadrement communautaire des aides d’État à la recherche, au développement et à l’innovation par Jean-Charles DJELALIAN et Isabelle NEALE-BESSON
  • State aid aspects of the EU Emission Trading Scheme: the second trading period by Anne Theo SEINEN
  • Enforcement of State aid control in the banking sector: BAWAG-PSK by Martin LOEFFLER and Daniel BOESHERTZ
  • Livrets A et bleu: la Commission demande à la France de supprimer les droits spéciaux de distribution attachés à ces produits par Christophe DU PAYRAT
  • Le nouveau dispositif de participation de l’État français au financement de la protection sociale complémentaire de ses agents: une aide à caractère social compatible avec le marché commun par Barbara JANKOVEC
  • Municipal wireless networks and State aid rules: Insights from “Wireless Prague” by Norbert GAAL, Lambros PAPADIAS and Alexander RIEDL

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Source Link Link to Main Source https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/3bd66bd2-5ef2-4f50-ae8b-d7b1ab6df25f
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