Jon is Head of the Cohesion Fund Closure Task Force at the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy. Prior to joining DG REGIO, he worked at the DG Competition. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Management Sciences from the University of Lancaster.
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"Mergers Summary of the most important recent developments"* The introduction of Community merger control procedures in 1990 established the powers of the Commission to appraise concentrations between large companies with operations falling within the European Union. The Commission’s "one-stop (...)
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"Mergers Summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission authorised the proposed acquisition of Carnaud Metalbox S.A. by Crown Cork & Seal, Inc., subject to the fulfilment of divestiture commitments made by Crown in order to meet the competition concerns identified by (...)
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"Mergers Summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission approved an operation by which Repola Corporation and Kymmene Corporation enter into a full merger. Repola and Kymmene are large international companies active in the fields of printing paper and packaging materials. (...)
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"Mergers Summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission decided that the Dutch tv joint venture Holland Media Groep SA (HMG) cannot be approved under the EC Merger Regulation. As a result the creation of HMG has been declared incompatible with the common market. HMG is a (...)
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"Mergers Summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission approved the proposed beverage joint venture between ORKLA and VOLVO after the partners amended their original proposals. As a condition for this approval the parties agreed to sell the Hansa brewery business, as a (...)
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"Mergers Summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission decided to initiate proceedings under the Merger Regulation in relation to the proposed merger between Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Scott Paper Company on 12 September 1995. Both companies are based in the United (...)
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"Mergers Summary of the most important recent developments"* In the proposed joint venture ABB and Daimler Benz intended to combine their worldwide activities in the field of rail transportation. The merger will lead to the world’s largest firm in this sector. In Europe, Daimler’s and ABB’s (...)
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"Mergers : summary of the most important recent developments"* The Swissair/Sabena concentration was authorised at the end of a phase 1 investigation on the basis of commitments given by the governments and companies concerned. Swissair purchased 49.5% of the shares with the Belgian State (...)
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"Mergers : summary of the most important recent developments"* On 19 July 1995 the Commission prohibited the NSD joint venture following a five-month investigation of the case. NSD was intended to transmit satellite TV programmes to cable TV operators and households receiving satellite TV on (...)
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"Mergers : summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission initiated an in depth investigation on 23 June 1995 in the ABB/Daimler Benz case. The proposed joint venture (to be called Daimler-Benz Rail Transportation) will cover the worldwide activities of ABB and Daimler-Benz (...)
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"Mergers : summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission is currently conducting an in depth investigation into the proposal of Orkla (Norway) and Volvo (Sweden) to form a joint beverages company operating in the two countries. The joint venture will produce, bottle, (...)
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"Mergers : summary of the most important recent developments"* The Commission’s began an examination of the RTL/Veronica/Endemol case following a request from the Dutch government to this effect, in the absence of which the Commission would not have jurisdiction to deal with the case since the (...)
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"Mergers : summary of the most important recent developments"* On 27 April 1995, the Court of First Instance (CFI) ruled on two cases, one brought by the employees of Perrier and the other by the employees of Vittel and Pierval, against the Commission’s decision of 22 July 1992 in the case (...)
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