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Commission calls on Greece to grant fairer access to lignite so as to improve competition in the electricity sector

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Greece
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  • April 25 2008

The European Commission has adopted a decision finding that Greece has infringed Article 86 of the EC Treaty in combination with Article 82 by maintaining rights giving the state-owned electricity incumbent Public Power Corporation (PPC) quasi-exclusive access to lignite

Refusal to supply exporter wholesalers as abuse of dominant position

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Greece
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  • January 23 2009

The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has given judgment in relation to the long-running disputes involving Greek wholesalers and GSK concerning the supply of GSK products for export

Advocate General’s opinion supporting parallel trade in Greek case against GSK

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Greece
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  • May 7 2008

The long running saga of disputes between Greek exporter wholesalers and GSK following GSK’s refusal of supplies for export purposes has taken a new turn

Parallel trade in medicines: ECJ judgment in the second reference re: GlaxoSmithKline’s supply policy in Greece and abuse of dominant position

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Greece
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  • October 16 2008

In the second reference to the European Court of Justice arising out of GSK’s policy of selling medicines directly to Greek hospitals and pharmacies the ECJ has held (Joined Cases C-46806 to C-47806 Sot. Lelos kai Sia and Others) that an undertaking which occupies a dominant position on the relevant market for medicinal products is abusing its dominant position contrary to Article 82 EC if, in order to stop parallel exports, it refuses to meet “ordinary orders” from wholesalers