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Contents:
Articles
- La politique européenne de la concurrence dans les services postaux hors monopole, par Jean-François PONS et Tilman LUEDER
- General Electric/Honeywell — An Insight into the Commission's Investigation and Decision, by Dimitri GIOTAKOS, Laurent PETIT, Gaelle GARNIER and Peter DE LUYCK
- B2B e-marketplaces and EC competition law: where do we stand?, by Joachim LÜCKING
Opinions and comments
- Ports italiens: Les meilleures histoires ont une fin, par Enrico Maria ARMANI 22 BASF/Pantochim/Eurodiol: Change of direction in European merger control? by Andreas STROHM
- A methodology for analysing State aid linked to stranded costs, and first cases, by Brice ALLIBERT
- European Competition Day in Stockholm, 11 June 2001, by Ansgar HELD
Antitrust
- The Commission defines principles of competition for the packaging waste recovery markets, by Michael GREMMINGER, Maija LAURILA and Gerald MIERSCH
- Commission fines eight companies in graphite electrode cartel, by Ingrid BREIT
- Décision Michelin: la Commission condamne l'entreprise Michelin pour un abus de position dominante portant sur des pratiques de rabais fidélisants, par Christian ROQUES
- Recent cases in the transport sector:
- Commission fines Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Maersk Air for market-sharing, by Eduardo MARTÍNEZ RIVERO
- Commission approves British Midland International joining STAR alliance, by Oliver STEHMANN
- Commission does not oppose the continuing operation of P&O Stena Line's cross-Channel ferry services, by Maria JASPERS
- Other developments in the transport sector, by Kirstin BAKER, André MEYER and Christine TOMBOY
Merger control
- Main developments between 1 May and 31 August 2001, by Carina JOERGENSEN, Neil MARSHALL and Kay PARPLIES
State aid
- Main developments between 1 June and 30 September 2001: Extension of the validity of the Multisectoral Framework on regional aid for large investment projects and of the Code on aid to the synthetic fibres industry, by Adolfo BARBERA del ROSAL
- Ninth Survey on State Aid in the EU, by Richard JOELS
- Two new transparency instruments : the State Aid Register and the State Aid Scoreboard, by Richard JOELS
- La Commission a adopté une communication relative à l'assurance-crédit à l'exportation à court terme modifiant celle qu'elle avait adressée aux Etats membres en 1997, by Valentina SUPERTI
- Cases:
- Espagne: la Commission décide que six régimes d'aides fiscales des provinces basques et un régime de la Navarre sont incompatibles avec le marché commun et que les aides déjà versées doivent être remboursées, by José Luis CALVO DE CELIS
- Germany — Commission investigates new aid to Neue Erba Lautex GmbH and takes Germany to Court for nonexecution of negative decision on aid to ‘old’ Erba Lautex, by Eva VALLE
- Spain — The Commission authorizes a State aid package worth € 152 million in favour of General Electric for its new polycarbonate plant in Cartagena, by Adolfo BARBERA del ROSAL
- United Kingdom — Commission decides to close the Article 88(2) procedure in respect of Regional Venture Capital Funds in England, by Madeleine INFELDT
- Germany — Commission approves rescue aid of about Euro 2 billion for Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG (BGB), by Stefan MOSER
- Germany — Further developments on State guarantees for German public banks — The German Government accepted the ‘appropriate measures’ proposed by the Commission, by Karl SOUKUP and Stefan MOSER
Information section
- Competition DG staff list
- Documentation
- Press releases on competition
- Court of Justice/Court of First Instance 94 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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