Conferences and Speeches
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Commission adopts revised competition rules for distribution of goods and services
Press Conference, Strasbourg, Joaquín Almunia
20 April 2010
" [...] the rules adopted today will ensure that consumers can buy goods and services at the best available prices wherever they are located in the EU.
At the same time companies without market power are essentially free to organise their sales network as they see best."
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"Europe 2020: for competitive and sustainable industries"
Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Industrie (IG BCE) Advisory Board: "The future of work, innovation and industries", Bonn, Joaquín Almunia
16 April 2010
"The way forward is not to close our borders or to retrench behind private or state barriers to competition.
I believe that what we need to do is to pull together and to implement a Europe-wide strategy that will help us emerge from the crisis.
The path to recovery lies with innovative and competitive industries, which are in a position to compete for business across the EU Single Market and globally."
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Antitrust
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Commission adopts revised competition rules for distribution of goods and services
20 April 2010
The Commission adopted a revised Regulation on vertical agreements, exempting certain categories of agreements between manufacturers and distributors from the EU's general ban on restrictive business practices.
The basic principle is that companies are free to decide how their products are distributed, provided their agreements contain no hardcore restrictions and neither party's market share exceeds 30%.
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Mergers
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Commission approves acquisition of Rohm and Haas powder coating business by AkzoNobel
21 April 2010
The Commission's investigation confirmed that, even though the proposed transaction would strengthen AkzoNobel's market-leading position in powder coatings, a large number of alternative suppliers would remain in the market which are not constrained either in terms of capacity or access to key raw materials.
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