Dr Antigoni Lykotrafiti is Lecturer in Transport, Energy and the Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining Queen Mary, Antigoni worked for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on transport policy issues. She has been an assistant professor at Tilburg University (Tilburg Law and Economics Centre), a Jean Monnet post-doctoral fellow at the European University Institute, a practitioner within a leading law firm and a stagiaire at the European Commission. Dr Lykotrafiti read law at the University of Athens (LLB), European law at the University of Essex (LLM) and air transport law at King’s College London (PhD). She specialises in European and International law, law and economics and law and innovation as applied especiallialy to the sectors of air transport and energy.
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Factual Background On 15 November 2007 the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment notified to the Cyprus Commissioner for State Aid Control a draft aid measure, entitled “indemnity/aid to livestock farmers due to foot-and-mouth disease”. (...)
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Factual Background In 1977 Cyprus introduced specific legislation, setting up the legal framework concerning the system of compulsory agricultural insurance and the granting of State aid through the subsidization of the insurance premium. Given that this legislation had been enacted before (...)
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Facts On 21.07.2005, the prefectural committee for education and youth of the prefectural administration of Serres (Serres being a prefecture in the north of Greece and in particular in the geographical region of Macedonia) adopted a decision, authorizing the terms of an open public tender (...)
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Factual Background On 19 June 2007 the Human Resource Development Authority of Cyprus (HRDA) notified to the Commissioner for State Aid Control a draft aid measure, entitled “aid scheme for the participation in the postgraduate programme of the Mediterranean Institute of Management (MIM)”. (...)
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Factual Background : In 1983, Greece adopted Law 1386/1983 for the organization for the financial reconstitution of undertakings. Law 1386/1983 created an organization operating under the name of Business Reconstruction Organisation, whose purpose was to contribute, inter alia, to the social (...)
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Parties : Appellant : Public Power Corporation S.A. Defendant : Greece (Minister of Development and Regulatory Authority for Energy) Background information : In 1999 Greece adopted Law 2773/1999 (the so-called Electricity Law), aligning its national legislation with Directive 96/92/EC (...)
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Factual Background Decision No. 267 : On 27.03.2007 the Human Resource Development Authority of Cyprus (HRDA) notified a draft aid scheme entitled “multi-company continuing training programmes abroad” to the Commissioner for State Aid Control. The aid measure aims to encourage employers and (...)
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On December 19th, 2006 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (C.P.C.) found the Cyprus Telecom Authority (CYTA), the incumbent telecom provider, liable for abusing its monopoly position in the upstream market for provision of access facilities necessary for value-added (...)
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Factual Background On 05.02.2007, the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment veterinary services notified to the Cyprus Commissioner for State Aid Control a draft aid scheme, entitled “scheme for the collection, transport and processing of animal waste by the company (...)
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On December 19th, 2006 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (C.P.C.) found the Cyprus Telecom Authority (CYTA), the incumbent telecom provider, liable for abusing its monopoly position in the upstream market for provision of access facilities necessary for value-added (...)
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Factual Background On 16 November 2006 the Human Resource Development Authority of Cyprus notified to the Commissioner for State Aid Control a draft aid scheme, entitled “single-company continuing training Programmes in Cyprus”. The aid aims at incentivising employers/undertakings to (...)
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On 26 June 2006 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (C.P.C.) dismissed a complaint filed by Mr. Alexis Philippides, a consumer and client of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA), against the latter for abuse of dominance in the market of Internet connection (...)
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Factual Background : The District Audit Centre of Athens (Ðåñéöåñåéáêü Åëåãêôéêü ÊÝíôñï Áèçíþí), faced with an authorization of a refund of around €62.000 to the Defence Analyses Institute, which is a legal entity governed by private law, examined the application of the provisions on value (...)
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Factual Background The Service of Financial Control (Õðçñåóßá Äçìïóéïíïìéêïý ÅëÝã÷ïõ) of the Hellenic Ministry of Rural Development and Food issued a money order for the financial year 2006 concerning the prepayment of an amount of about €550.000 to the operators of agricultural holdings (...)
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On 8 September 2006 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (C.P.C.) reached a decision regarding its ex officio investigation of the services of fixed international telephony “CYTA 1818” and “Direct International VoIP” offered by the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA), (...)
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Factual Background On 21 August 2006 the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, notified to the Commissioner for State Aid Control a draft individual aid measure, entitled “aid scheme for the Holstein-Friesian cattle breeder Association”. (...)
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Commission for the Protection of Competition (Epitropi Prostasias Antagonismou), 4 August 2006, Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA) and Lumiere TV Ltd (LTV) In its unanimous decision of 4 August 2006 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (C.P.C.) imposed a fine of (...)
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In its unanimous decision of 4 August 2006 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (C.P.C.) imposed a fine of £CY 80.000 on Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA) and of £CY 65.000 on subscriber channel LTV for a cooperation deal which had never actually been implemented, (...)
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Factual background The applicant was employed by the Greek national flag carrier from 1968 to 1999, when he retired. Upon retirement, he was paid 12 million drachmas, pursuant to Mandatory Law 173/1967. In 2000, he brought an action before the court of first instance of Athens, asking for (...)
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On June 2, 2006 the Commission for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter C.P.C.) put an end to its ex-officcio investigation of the pay-TV industry in Cyprus imposing a total fine of CY£ 535 on Channel LTV, Multichoice Ltd (LTV’s platform administrator) and NETMED NV (Multichoice’s (...)
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Factual Background On 18 April 2006 the Research Promotion Foundation notified to the Commissioner for State aid control a draft aid scheme, entitled “Joint Cooperation Programme between Cyprus and Greece”. The general objective of the Programme is the promotion of cooperation and (...)
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On 20 January 2006 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter C.P.C.), in one of its many decisions concerning the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (hereinafter CYTA), found the latter liable for infringing Section 6(1) of the Protection of Competition Law of 1989 (...)
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Factual Background : On 15.03.1988 the Greek Minister of Financial Affairs adopted Decision E. 3789/128, ratified by Law 1796/1988, which introduced a special single tax on the total income of certain undertakings in the financial year 1987. However, the proportion of earnings deriving from (...)
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On 30 May 2005 the Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter C.P.C.) ended its own initiative investigation of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (hereinafter CYTA) by unanimously finding CYTA liable for abuse of its dominant position in the market for the (...)
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Factual Background On 29 March 2005, the Department of Town Planning and Housing of the Ministry of Interior notified to the Commissioner for State aid control a draft aid scheme, entitled “aid scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises for the promotion of alternative forms of economic (...)
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Factual Background : On 24 January 2005, the Research Promotion Foundation notified to the Commissioner for State aid Control a draft scheme, entitled “scheme for the provision of access to research infrastructures abroad”. The scheme is based on the acknowledgment of the essential need that (...)
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Factual Background On 23 December 2004, the Cyprus Productivity Centre notified to the Commissioner for State Aid Control a draft aid scheme, entitled “aid scheme for construction companies concerning the upgrade of their equipment”. The scheme aims at the improvement of working conditions (...)
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Factual Background On 4 January 2005, the Department of Labour of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance notified a draft aid scheme to the Commissioner for State aid control, entitled “scheme for the payment of social security contributions to employers and disabled employees”. The (...)
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Factual background On 4 January 2005, the Department of Labour in the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance notified a draft aid scheme to the Commissioner for State aid control, entitled “scheme for the provision of incentives regarding the recruitment of persons with a serious disability (...)
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On 22 June 2004 the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) put an end to its ex officio investigation of the commercial banks in Cyprus for the existence of a possible cartel, unanimously finding three banking institutions liable for restrictive enterprise agreements. A (...)
