Overview

Nabarro's EU & Competition team offer a monthly update covering all the key news relevant to UK and EU competition, procurement and state aid. December's edition features stories on the following:

UK COMPETITION

• Is there sufficient competition for auditing services?


• OFT considers market reference into the private healthcare market


• The OFT's case goes up in smoke

EU COMPETITION

• Antitrust rules on patent and know how agreements under review


• Commission opens formal antitrust proceedings in e-book publishing sector


• Copper cartel participant's human rights appeal rejected by ECJ


• Fines imposed as refrigerator cartel participants settle


• Italian authorities get their hands on airline merger after a three year postponement

PROCUREMENT

• Commission erroneously evaluated tender on the basis of bidders' experience

STATE AID

• Emergency bank aid rules extended - again!


• ECJ confirms France Télécom received a selective advantage under the tax rules

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