Publications
- Competition Merger Brief 1/2016
21 March 2016
The new issue of the Competition Merger Brief covers the General Electric/Alstom, Siemens/Dresser, Pfizer/Hospira, NXP/Freescale cases as well as an Ex post analysis of the Austrian T-Mobile/tele.ring and Dutch T-Mobile/Orange case.
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Antitrust
- Successful market opening allows early termination of commitments in Deutsche Bahn case
8 April 2016
The European Commission has relieved Deutsche Bahn ahead of schedule from commitments made binding in December 2013, as several competitors have now entered the German railway traction current market, thereby addressing the Commission's competition concerns.
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- Commission fines Riberebro €5.2 million for participation in canned mushrooms cartel
6 April 2016
The European Commission has found that Spanish canned and fresh vegetable company Riberebro participated in a cartel to coordinate prices and allocate customers of canned mushrooms in Europe for more than a year and has imposed a fine of €5 194 000 on the company.
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State Aid
- Commission opens in-depth investigation into support for Romanian petrochemical company Oltchim
8 April 2016
The European Commission has opened an in-depth probe to verify whether debt write-offs by the Romanian State and continued supplies by State-owned enterprises in favour of Oltchim, despite the company's deteriorating financial situation, were in line with EU state aid rules.
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- Commission approves French support for households affected by spectrum reallocation
5 April 2016
The Commission approved a French scheme under EU state aid rules, which supports households to access free-to-air TV channels that are affected by the reallocation of frequency used for TV broadcasting to wireless broadband services.
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