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European Commission opened formal state aid investigation into the German exemption of large electricity consumers from network charges

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • April 22 2013

On 6 March 2013, the European Commission ('the Commission') decided to investigate in-depth the German exemption of large electricity consumers from

EU political update 4 - 8 March 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Global, Peru, Portugal
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  • March 4 2013

On 27 February, the European Commission decided under the EU Merger Regulation to prohibit the third attempt of low-cost airline Ryanair to acquire

Conflicts between German prohibitions of boycott measures and US anti-terrorism law

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • European Union, Germany, USA
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  • November 20 2012

The European financing market is increasingly faced with the conflict between, on one hand, US anti-terrorism laws imposing obligatory sanctions in line with US foreign policy and, on the other hand, German foreign trade laws which prohibit boycott measures

Corporate crime update - July 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany, Iran, North Korea, Spain, Syria, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 16 2012

The SFO has announced that it has obtained a civil recovery order against Oxford Publishing Ltd (OPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxford University Press (OUP

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

International Trade and Technology Transfer Reporter IT3

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 22 2012

Expectations were high when the US-UK Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty (Treaty Doc. 1107) was signed by President Bush and Prime Minister Blair on June 21, 2007

VAT compliance: Intrastat and EC sales lists

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • April 26 2012

EC sales lists must be filed monthly (instead of quarterly) if the EU-acquisitions and triangulation supplies in the current year (or in any of the four preceding quarters) exceeds a threshold

Commission approves amendment to Commerzbank restructuring plan

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • April 3 2012

On 30 March 2012, the European Commission announced its approval to Commerzbank’s modified restructuring plan

An injunction to provide information under Article 10(3) of Regulation No 6591999 constitutes an act open to challenge for the purposes of Article 263 TFEU

  • Stibbe
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • March 27 2012

On 12 September 2007 the Commission had initiated a formal investigation procedure regarding State aid in favour of Deutsche Post AG

Commission opens in-depth investigations into aid to airports in Belgium, France and Germany

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Belgium, European Union, France, Germany
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  • March 27 2012

On 21 March 2012, the European Commission announced that it has opened an in-depth investigation into whether financial arrangements between public authorities and airports Charleroi (Belgium), Angoulême (France) and Dortmund (Germany), and certain rebates and marketing agreements concluded between these airports and airlines using them, are in line with EU State aid rules