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European Commission approves additional installment of French aid for merging banks

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • European Union, France
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  • May 8 2009

Today, the European Commission approved a 2.45 billion of state aid to Caisse d’Épargne and Banque Populaire

French banks appeal Commission decision

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, France
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  • March 31 2008

The Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (GCB) has issued an appeal in the Court of First Instance (CFI) seeking an annulment of a European Commission (Commission) decision that declared it had breached Article 81(1) EC Treaty

Commission decision against Groupement des Cartes Bancaires

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, France
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  • October 19 2007

The European Commission has addressed a decision to Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (France) in which it concludes that the Groupement has infringed EC Competition rules

Groupement des Cartes Bancaires breaches EU competition rules

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, France
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  • November 12 2007

Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (CB) is responsible for the CB bank card in France, which is used for over 70 per cent of card payments

Groupement des Cartes Bancaires restricts competition by hindering the issuance of cards at competitive prices

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, France
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  • October 31 2007

The Commission has addressed a decision to Groupement des Cartes Bancaires "CB" (France) in which it concludes that the latter has infringed the EC Treaty rules prohibiting practices which restrict competition (Article 81

Commission calls on France to end special rights to distribute savings books ("livret A" and "livret bleu")

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, France
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  • May 25 2007

The Commission has asked France to amend its legislation within nine months in order to eliminate the obstacles to the internal market rules represented by the special rights to distribute savings books ("livret A" and "livret bleu") granted to Banque Postale, Caisse d’Epargne and Crédit Mutuel

Commission opens in-depth investigation into restructuring of Dexia and authorises certain urgent measures

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Belgium, European Union, France, Luxembourg
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  • March 16 2009

The European Commission has started an in-depth investigation under EC Treaty State aid rules to establish whether the restructuring plan for the Dexia group will restore the group's long-term viability

Commission authorises amendment to French scheme to inject capital into certain credit institutions

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, France
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  • March 31 2009

The European Commission has approved, under the State aid rules of the EC Treaty, an amendment to the French scheme to inject capital into credit institutions which it approved on 8 December 2008 and 28 January 2009

Concerns about the new Swift Agreement

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • European Union, France, USA
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  • October 5 2010

The European Parliament has adopted the EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program Agreement

CMS guide to restructuring, insolvency and distressed debt trading in Europe

  • CMS
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  • Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, European Union, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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  • April 26 2011

This guide provides a comparative analysis of certain key areas of law and procedure for those involved in or affected by financial distress of a corporation and the trading of distressed debt across Europe