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ECJ rules that a development agreement between two contracting authorities is a works contract that must be tendered

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, France
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  • January 31 2007

The ECJ handed down judgment in Case C-22005, Auroux, on 18 January 2007 following a referral from the Tribunal administratif de Lyon (Tribunal

Pharmaceutical, pulp mill mergers cleared subject to conditions

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • January 22 2007

The Commission has approved the acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare business by J&J, subject to conditions

Commission raids german electricity companies

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • January 22 2007

On December 12, 2006, the European Commission (Commission) announced that it had carried out surprise inspections (so-called “dawn raids”) at the premises of several electricity companies in Germany

Commission launches case against Microsoft

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • February 19 2008

The European Commission launched two formal antitrust investigations against Microsoft Corporation in relation to suspected abuses of dominance by refusing to provide interoperability information to competitors and tying Internet Explorer (Microsoft’s web browser application) to the Windows operating system

Regulators raid shipping standard companies

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • February 19 2008

Regulators from the European Commission, in conjunction with officials from the EFTA Surveillance Authority (representing Norway, Lichtenstein and Iceland) and national competition authorities, carried out surprise inspections at the premises of several providers of classification services for merchant ships

Commission launches consultation on draft guidelines for merger remedies

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • May 23 2007

The Commission has launched a public consultation on its draft Remedies Notice that would clarify its policy regarding remedies to anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions

Dutch beer cartel fined over 273 million

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • May 23 2007

The Commission has fined Dutch brewers Heineken, Grolsch and Bavaria more than 273 million for conspiring to fix prices within the Dutch beer market between 1996 and 1999

Commission approves proposed acquisition of Cadence by Magna

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • May 11 2009

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Cadence Innovation, a Czech manufacturer of car components, by one of its competitors, Magna of Canada

Commission approves acquisition of Delphi Steering Business by General Motors

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • May 7 2009

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Delphi Steering Business, a US manufacturer of steering products for motor vehicles, by the US car manufacturer General Motors (GM), for whom Delphi Steering Business is a major supplier of vehicle manufacturing activities

Commission adopts report on functioning of key anti-trust regulation

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • May 7 2009

The European Commission has published a report on the first five years of the application of Council Regulation 12003