May 1998

Case C-7/95 P John Deere Ltd v Commission of the European Communities* 1. It follows from Article 168a of the Treaty, Article 51 of the Statute of the Court of Justice and Article 112(1)(c) of the Rules of Procedure that an appeal must indicate precisely the contested elements of the (...)

"Commission clears the IFCO packaging system"* On 20 May 1998 the Commission declared the Articles 85(1) and 86 of the EC Treaty to be inapplicable to the German IFCO packaging system (International Fruit Container Organization). This system is a multi-transport way of packing fruit and (...)

Case T-311/94 BPB de Eendracht NV, formerly Kartonfabriek de Eendracht NV ν Commission of the European Communities* 1. The statement of objections, the purpose of which is to give the undertakings under investigation in application of the competition rules all the information necessary to (...)

"TÜV / CENELEC Conformity assessment and competition: a case in point"* Conformity Assessment, a procedure for checking that a product, system or service conforms to a standard or specification, is an important issue for European competitiveness. There are a growing number of harmonised (...)

The operation New Holland acquired a shareholding of Koc Group in Trakmak which represents 37.5% of the share capital of Trakmak as a result of which New Holland and Koc Group started to have joint control over Trakmak. The Turkish Competition Authority, upon its review, decided that (...)

"Mergers : Recent Developments and Important Decisions"* Major Phase II decisions concerned two proposed concentrations in the German pay-tv sector. In a first step CLT-UFA, a joint venture between Bertelsmann AG and Audiofina SA, and Kirch, the leading supplier of cinema films and TV (...)

"Mergers : Recent Developments and Important Decisions"* In Price Waterhouse/Coopers & Lybrand, cleared on 20 May, the Commission examined the possibility that the proposed merger would create collective – oligopolistic or duopolistic - dominance, as well as the more usual concern over (...)

"Mergers : Recent Developments and Important Decisions"* In ITS/Signode/Titan, cleared on 6 May, the Commission assessed competition in the supply of steel and plastic strapping in Western Europe following the completion of this joint venture. Whereas the initial examination of the case (...)