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Competition State aid Brief

Occasional papers by the Competition Directorate-General of the European Commission about State Aid.

Since 2017, the Competition Policy Briefs are distributed/announced via the general newsletter. If you are interested, we suggest to subscribe.

• 2019 - Issue 1: The 2019 Commission Notice on the recovery of unlawful and incompatible State aid
• 2015 - Issue 1: State aid to European banks: returning to viability

Competition Merger Brief

Occasional papers by staff of the Competition Directorate–General of the European Commission about merger cases.

Since 2017, the Competition Policy Briefs are distributed/announced via the general newsletter. If you are interested, we suggest to subscribe.

• 2019 - Issue 1: M.8788 Apple/Shazam, M.8480 Praxair/Linde, M.8451 Tronox/Cristal, M.8744 Daimler/BMW/Car Sharing JV (16/07/2019)
• 2018 - Issue 2: C.248/16 Austria Asphalt Judgment, M.8084 Bayer/Monsanto, M.8658 UTC/Rockwell Collins, M. 8444 Ilva/ArcelorMittal (20/12/2018)
• 2018 - Issue 1: M.8306 Qualcomm/NXP, M.8394 Essilor/Luxottica, M.8633 Lufthansa/Air Berlin, M.7993 Altice/PT Portugal (20/07/2018)
• 2017 - Issue 3: M.7878 HeidelbergCement/Schwenk/Cemex Hungary/Cemex Croatia, M.8465 Vivendi/Telecom Italia, M.8401 J&J/Actelion case (20/12/2017)
• 2017 - Issue 2: M.7932 Dow/DuPont, M.7962 ChemChina/Syngenta, M.7995 DB/LSE, M.8087 Smiths Group/Morpho Detection case (27/7/2017)
• 2017 - Issue 1: M.8124 Microsoft/LinkedIn, M.7801 Wabtec/Faively, M.7917 Böhringer Ingelheim/Sanofi, M.8055 Coherent/Rofin-Sinar case (16/5/2017)
• 2016 - Issue 4: M.7630 FedEx/TNT, M.7881 ABI/SAB, M.7744 Heidelbergcement/Italcementi, M.7893 Plastic Omnium/Faurecia Exterior Business case (12/12/2016)
• 2016 - Issue 3: Recent developments in telecoms mergers (29/11/2016)
• 2016 - Issue 2: Ball/Rexam, Staples/Office Depot, Liberty Global/Base Belgium, Teva/Allergan Generics case (29/07/2016)
• 2016 - Issue 1: General Electric/Alstom, Siemens/Dresser, Pfizer/Hospira, NXP/Freescale, Ex post analysis T-Mobile/tele.ring  (AT)/ T-Mobile/Orange (NL) cases (21/03/2016)


• 2015 - Issue 3: Orange/Jazztel, Zimmer/Biomet, Merck/Sigma-Aldrich, Cargill/ADM cases (30/10/2015)
• 2015 - Issue 2: The Novartis/GSK Oncology, INEOS/Solvay/JV, Airbus/Safran/JV, DEMB/Mondelez cases (23/07/2015)
• 2015 - Issue 1: The Facebook/WhatsApp, Liberty Global/Ziggo, Huntsmann/Rockwood and Holcim/Lafarge cases (03/03/2015)


• 2014 - Issue 1: The Marine harvest case, SSAB/Rautaruukki merger, Review of mobile telecoms mergers (07/11/2014)

Competition Policy Brief

Occasional papers by staff of the Competition Directorate–General of the European Commission about policy issues and key cases.

Since 2017, the Competition Policy Briefs are distributed/announced via the general newsletter. If you are interested, we suggest to subscribe ( privacy statement).

2018

• 2018 - Issue 1: EU competition rules and marketplace bans: Where do we stand after the Coty judgment? (4/04/2018)

2016

• 2016 - Issue 1: EU merger control and innovation (11/04/2016)
• 2016 - Issue 2: International enforcement cooperation in mergers (23/05/2016)
• 2016 - Issue 3: How evaluation can help: The case of financial support to business R&D&I (30/05/2016)
• 2016 - Issue 4: State aid transparency: Why? What? When? Where? How?
  

2015

• 2015 - Issue 1: The Damages Directive (13/01/2015)
• 2015 - Issue 2: Market definition in a globalised world (16/03/2015)
• 2015 - Issue 3 - The Interchange Fees Regulation (08/06/2015)
• 2015 - Issue 4 - Ex post evaluation of competition policy enforcement (15/06/2015)
• 2015 - Issue 5 - Improving competition in the Member States to boost growth (27/07/2015)

2014

• 2014 - Issue 1: New rule book for Risk Finance State aid (15/01/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 2: State aid rules for a competitive aviation industry (20/02/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 3: To commit or not to commit - Deciding between prohibition and commitments (03/03/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 4: State aid Transparency for taxpayers (21/05/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 5: Supporting R&D and innovation in Europe: new State aid rules (21/05/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 6: State aid control in the postal sector (26/05/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 7: State aid evaluation (4/06/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 8: Standard-essential patents (4/06/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 9: New rules on rescue and restructuring aid for industry: the right incentives for innovation and growth (9/07/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 10: State aid for airline restructuring: Does it give you wings? (9/07/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 12: State aid granted in the automotive sector (9/07/2014, re-publication 6/8/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 13: State aid rules for films and other audiovisual works (12/09/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 14: Guidelines on Regional state aid for 2014-2020 (17/09/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 15: Minority Power - EU Merger Control and the acquisition of Minority Shareholdings (3/10/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 16: Improving State Aid for Energy and the Environment (10/10/2014)
• 2014 - Issue 11: State aid modernisation - a major revamp of EU state aid control (31/10/2014)

For technical reasons, Issue 11 was delayed so that it was published after Issue 16.

Competition Policy Newsletter

This publication has been discontinued. The Competition Policy Newsletter contained articles written by staff of the Competition Directorate-General about policy issues and cases.

Note: Former CPN subscribers will receive the CPB instead, from January 2014

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