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Competition policy newsletter 2006-1

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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 Evi 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
  by 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 and Alessandro PAOLICCHI Miguel DE LA MANO
• Consolidation in container liner shipping — Merger control aspects
  by Fabrizia BENINI

State aid

• La filialisation des services financiers de La Poste (France): une application concrète de la jurisprudence Chronopost
  by 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
  byHans W. FRIEDERISZICK and Michael TRÖGE

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