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69.Aftalen, som Kommissionen allerede fritog i 1999 indtil den 31. december 2001, blevgenanmeldt af parterne den 18. juni 2001 med en anmodning om en forlængelse af fritagelsen.
344.The CFI also dismissed the plea that the Commission should in its referral decision have analysedall markets mentioned in the notification and in the referral request of the Member State.
Det blevvurderet, at aftalen var konkurrencebegrænsende efter artikel 81, stk. 1, da den hindrer parterne i at aftaleandre terminalafgifter end dem, der er fastsat i aftalen.
The CFI notedthat some of the markets identified in the notification were not affected markets and that the Commission’s referral decision indicated that, for certain markets identified in the referral request, thethreat of the creation or strengthening of a dominant position could be ruled out.
70.Pga. de fordele, der allerede blev fastslået i beslutningen om fritagelse fra 1999, navnlig enforbedring af udbringningen af grænseoverskridende post, besluttede Kommissionen at fritage aftalenigen for en femårig periode med forbehold af nye strenge betingelser om ikkediskrimination, hvad angårprivate posttjenesters adgang til REIMS II-aftalens udbringningsbetingelser på den ene side og billigealternativer til terminalafgifter på den anden side.
345.The CFI confirmed that the Commission’s power to refer a concentration pursuant to Article 9(3)(a)of the merger regulation is only limited if, at the time of the examination of the referral request, it is clearon the basis of a body of precise and coherent evidence that referral cannot safeguard or restore effectivecompetition. The CFI considered that, given that the Spanish authorities had specific legislation fordealing with the concentration concerned, the Commission acted reasonably in considering that thereferral to Spain would preserve and not threaten effective competition.
71.Den 21. maj vedtog Kommissionen en beslutning efter artikel 82 om Deutsche Telekom AG’s(DT) prisstrategi for lokale adgangstjenester til det faste telefonnet og pålagde selskabet (50) en bøde på
349.On 30 September, the Court of First Instance (CFI) delivered a judgment fully upholding the Commission decision clearing the change of the (former) German payTV operator KirchPayTV fromsole control (by Kirch Holding) to joint control (by Kirch Holding and the British payTV operator BSkyB).
Kommissionen fastslog i beslutningen, at DT udøvede et prispres pga. et misforholdmellem engros- og detailpriserne for adgangen til abonnentnettet.
The concentration would have given rise to the creation of a dominant, if not monopoly,position for KirchPayTV in the emerging market for digital interactive TV services.
Det afskrækkede nye markedsdeltagerefra at søge ind på markedet og begrænsede mulighederne for at vælge teleudbyder samt priskonkurrencenfor endelige forbrugere.
351.A range of commitments were given by the notifying parties which eliminated the competitionconcerns raised by the Commission with respect to the German markets for payTV and digitalinteractive services.
Kommissionens undersøgelse blev indledt i 1999 og udsprang af klager fra 15nye markedsdeltagere på det tyske marked for fastnettjenester.
The commitments thereby lowered the barriersto entry in the payTV market and prevented KirchPayTV from leveraging its dominance in that marketinto the market for digital interactive television services.
72.Kommissionen konkluderede, at der var tale om misbrug i form af et prispres, da forskellenmellem DT’s detail- og engrospriser enten var negativ eller en smule positiv, men ikke tilstrækkelig til atdække DT’s produktspecifikke omkostninger i forbindelse med udbud af egne detailtjenester. Pga. det
352.The Commission decision and its acceptance of the commitments were challenged by ARD,an association of German public service broadcasters, on five grounds.
Sag COMP/C1/38.170 (EUT L 56 af 24.2.2004, s. 76).Pressemeddelelse IP/03/1438 af 23.10.2003.Sag COMP/C1/37.451, 37.578, 37.579 (EUT L 263 af 14.10.2003, s. 9).Pressemeddelelse IP/03/717 af 21.5.2003.
355.With respect to ARD’s third claim, the CFI took the view that, although the commitmentswere of a more behavioural nature, they were of a structural character since they were intended tosolve a structural problem, namely the problem of third-party market entry.
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73.Kommissionen mente, at DT kunne have undgået prispresset, bl.a. ved at øge detailpriserne foranaloge-, ISDN- og ADSL-forbindelser inden for rammerne af den tyske »price cap«-ordning.
The subgroup has,moreover, developed a set of guiding principles for merger notification and review procedures, whichwere approved by the wider ICN membership at the ICN’s first annual conference, held in Naples in October 2002.
Under denførste »price cap«-ordning mellem 1998 og 2001 kunne DT have undgået prispresset ved at forhøjeslutbrugernes abonnementsafgifter.
The ICN membership has to date adopted sevenrecommended practices covering the following areas: (1) nexus between the transaction’s effects and thereviewing jurisdiction; (2) notification thresholds; (3) the timing of merger notification.
Stigende abonnentafgifter kunne have været opvejet af laveresamtalepriser. Fra 2002 kunne DT i det mindste have mindsket prispresset ved at øge prisen for ADSL-adgangstjenesterne.
360.The subgroup is working actively on four further recommended practices coveringconfidentiality, procedural fairness, conduct of merger investigations, and interagency cooperation.
Prispresset blev derfor ikke pålagt DT gennem beslutninger truffet af de tysketilsynsmyndigheder på telekommunikationsområdet.
The work programme fornext year includes the development of an ‘Investigative techniques compendium’, which would contain acollection of investigation tool examples from various jurisdictions.
74.Kommissionen vedtog den 16. juli en beslutning efter artikel 82 om Wanadoos prisstrategi for ADSL-tjenester (52).
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Kommissionen vurderede, at Wanadoo, der på det tidspunkt var et 72 %-ejet datterselskab af France Télécom, havde anvendt en prissætning under omkostningsniveauet fra marts 2001til oktober 2002, og pålagde derfor Wanadoo en bøde på 10,35 mio. EUR.
362.The subgroup on investigative techniques presented three reports to the 2003 annual conference,namely an analysis of the investigative tools applied in various jurisdictions, a report on developingreliable evidence, and a report on the role of economists and econometric data in merger cases.
75.ADSL er den væsentligste teknologi i Frankrig til tilvejebringelse af højhastighedsadgang tilinternettet til privatkunder og »small office/home office«-kunder (SOHO).
363.This subgroup is focusing on the general analytical framework for merger review, including thesubstantive standards for analysing mergers and the criteria for applying those standards.
ADSL giver mulighed for atudbyde bredbåndstjenester over den almindelige telefonlinje.
Information isbeing gathered on the substantive standard applied in each member jurisdiction, including information onenforcement guidelines or other interpretative material.
I den periode, som beslutningen dækker,blev næsten alle ADSL-linjer i Frankrig drevet af den etablerede udbyder France Télécom.
An indepth study has been made of the impact ofdifferent standards in four different jurisdictions (Australia, South Africa, Germany and the USA).
Atopveje de oprindelige tab over en vis periode var et muligt scenario, selv om der kan have været andregrunde til Wanadoos aggressive strategi.
Certain specific texts also set out the State aid rulesapplicable to particular sectors (e.g. shipbuilding). Soft law texts endeavour to clarify the criteria uponwhich the Commission bases its assessment in specific areas.
Fra dokumenter, der blev fundet under en inspektion af Wanadoos lokaler, kunne Kommissionen også konkludere, at Wanadoo havde til hensigt at sætte sig pådet strategiske marked for højhastighedsadgang til internettet (53).
367.The Commission monitors, moreover, the recovery of unlawful aid by Member States, aswell as aid measures which are exempted from notification, on the basis of specific legal instruments.Such monitoring will gradually be extended to all State aid decisions containing conditions withwhich the Member States have to comply.
77.I sektoren for informationstjenester traf Kommissionen beslutning om en tilbagetrækning af deforeløbige foranstaltninger, der blev vedtaget i 2001 (55).
Light, predictable and transparent procedures as well as more economically sound and robustcriteria for the assessment of State aid measures should be the result of the reform process undertaken.
På det tidspunkt pålagde Kommissionen via foreløbige foranstaltninger IMS Health, der er førende på verdensplan inden for indsamling af data om
It starts fromthe premiss that, other things being equal, the smaller the amount of aid, the smaller the distortionof competition which is likely to result.
56 salg af lægemidler og recepter, at meddele licens på sin »1860-blokstruktur« (
XXXIIIRD REPORT ON COMPETITION POLICY 2003 — SEC(2004) 658 FINAL97 and Member States to continue their efforts to reduce the general level of State aid.
I første halvår af 2003 vedtog Kommissionen to formelle forbudsbeslutninger efter EF-traktatensartikel 82 om ekskluderende adfærd i forbindelse med udbud af teletjenester.
The contract will need to be awarded to the operator(s)providing electronic communication networks which fulfil the minimum specified requirements for theservice (in terms of quality of service, future improvements, etc.) at the lowest cost.
Det er de førstebeslutninger af den slags siden den fulde liberalisering af telesektoren i 1998 og endda siden 1982,da det blev fastslået, at British Telecommunications, der stadig var et statsmonopol, misbrugte sin
400.The provision of the service should respect the principles of transparency, non-discrimination,proportionality and least market distortion.
1 dominerende stilling til at begrænse brugen af telex- og telefonfaciliteter (
Commission to draw up, notify and approve the regional maps for the period after 1 January 2007.
Disse to beslutninger er vigtige, da de vedrører en økonomisk sektor, der var underlagt enforhåndsregulering, hvor medlemsstaterne spiller en vigtig rolle via beslutningsprocessen i denationale tilsynsmyndigheder.
403.In a solemn act, the Accession Treaties with 10 countries were signed on 16 April 2003. Thepreparations for integrating the 10 countries into the European Union have resulted in a first list ofexisting aid measures to be included in the Accession Treaty of the 10 new Member States.
Reglerne for denne regulering blev reformeret i 2002 af de nye EF-direktiver om elektronisk kommunikation og ændrer sig i retning af koncepter baseret påkonkurrencelovgivning.
The work hascontinued under the socalled interim mechanism, which constitutes the legal framework for theassessment of aid schemes and individual aid measures put into effect in a new Member State before thedate of accession and still applicable after accession.
Kommissionen vil fortsat bekæmpe prismisbrug, selv i de tilfælde, hvor de omhandlede priservedrører en sektorspecifik regulering.
404.Under the mechanism, the future Member States must provide the Commission regularly with alist of existing aid measures which have been assessed by the national State aid monitoring authority andwhich that authority has found to be compatible with the acquis, together with any other informationwhich is essential for the assessment of the compatibility of the aid measure to be examined.
De to beslutninger fastsætter betingelserne forgennemførelse af de relevante test.
Uponnotification, the Commission will consider the compatibility with the common market of notifiedmeasures which are applicable after accession.
Prissætning under omkostningsniveauet kræver en direktesammenligning af priserne og de underliggende omkostninger og medfører en forpligtelse til atøge priserne til over omkostningsniveauet.
If the Commission does not object to a particular aidmeasure submitted on the ground of serious doubts as to its compatibility with the common marketwithin three months of receipt of complete information on that measure, the Commission will be deemednot to have raised any objection.
Undersøgelse af prispres starter med en sammenligningaf engros- og detailpriser.
If the Commission decides to object to a particular measure, this willtake the form of a decision to initiate the Article 88(2) investigation procedure.
De underliggende downstream-omkostninger vil kun blive undersøgt,hvis detailpriserne er højere end engrospriserne.
If such a decision is takenbefore the date of accession, the decision will only come into effect on the date of accession.
samling til de daværende konkurrenter på det tyske marked for regionale salgsdata for salg af lægemidler.IMS fik derimod ret til at opkræve licensafgifter.
See also Chapter V on international activities.N 707/2002.N 708/2002.Judgments of the Court of Justice of 2.7.1974 in Case C-173/73 Italy v Commission and of 22.3.1977 in Case C-78/76 Steinikev Germany.
Retten i Første Instans (
It assessed the measures in
I en dom af 17. september 2002 gav en tysk domstol (
) directly under Article 87(3)(c) x of the EC Treaty.
IMS’ hovedkonkurrent på det tyske marked, ret til at udbyde en struktur, der opfylder kundernes behov.Selv om domstolen erkendte, at IMS Healths 1860-blokstruktur var omfattet af en national ophavsretligbeskyttelse, fastslog den, at tredjeparter ikke kan hindres i at udvikle en anden struktur baseret påadministrative og postale opdelinger, selv om den nye struktur har samme antal blokke som 1860strukturen og må betragtes som værende baseret på denne.
In the first kind of scheme there isa rationale for the public authorities to sell or auction the emission or pollution document to the producerof that emission or pollution, as the tradable emission or pollution document gives him the right to emitor pollute (directly or indirectly). In the second kind of scheme, the tradable emission or pollutiondocument has no value to the recipient in relation to the State and merely serves as authorised proof of acertain production or emission.
Der kan således udvikles andre blokstrukturer,der ligner 1860strukturen meget, til indsamling af data om lægemiddelsalg, og de kan lovligt anvendestil at udarbejde og markedsføre salgsrapporter om lægemidler.
First, tradable NO credits contribute directly to the absolute emission standard per company x imposed by the State. Thus the notified NO emission trading scheme is comparable to a direct NO x x emission allowance allocation.
Samtidig forbedrede NDC sin markedsstilling.
Secondly, it is the producer himself who is obliged to meet his emission standard.
Endvidere var der en anden konkurrent, der skulle have draget fordel af Kommissionensforeløbige foranstaltninger, der trak sig tilbage fra det tyske marked.
Thirdly, the Dutch authorities do have an alternative to selling or auctioning the emissionstandards. Therefore, these private schemes constitute State resources within the meaning of Article 87(1).
78.Pga. den ændrede situation var det ikke længere hastende, at Kommissionen greb ind, og Kommissionen trak derfor beslutningen fra 2001 om foreløbige foranstaltninger tilbage.
412.On 17 September, the Commission closed its formal investigation into whether State aid had beengranted in the context of the Space Park Bremen (179) project in Germany. The Commission concluded that the participation of Bremen in Köllmann AG, the project’s lead investor, had become moot since it
Kendelse af 26.10.2001, sag T-184/01R, og kendelse af 11.4.2002, sag C-481/01P(R); præsidenten for Domstolen afviste NDC’s appel af kendelsen afsagt af præsidenten for Retten i Første Instans.Dom afsagt af Frankfurts højesteret (Frankfurter Oberlandesgericht) den 17.9.2002 i sag 11 U 67/2000.
See, for instance, Commission decision of 29.3.2000 in Case N 653/1999 Denmark — CO2 quota system, OJ C 322 of 11.11.2000,p. 9, and Commission decision of 28.11.2001 in Case N 416/2001 United Kingdom — Emission trading scheme, OJ C 88 of
79.Nationale domstolsprøvelser og en præjudiciel afgørelse fra EF-Domstolen var undervejs.
) and concluded as to the involvement of State resources and the imputability of the granting of the loan to the German authorities.
Isidstnævnte tilfælde afgav generaladvokat Tizzano udtalelse den 2. oktober (59).
413.After having scrutinised the conditions of the loan and its aid element under market conditions,the Commission decided to adopt a partly negative decision.
Han anførte, at en afvisning af at meddele licens på et ophavsretligt beskyttet produkt (i dette tilfælde 1860-strukturen)udgør et misbrug af en dominerende stilling, hvis der ikke foreligger en objektiv begrundelse for ensådan afvisning, og hvis anvendelsen af det immaterielle gode er absolut nødvendig for den givneaktivitet på det afledte marked i en sådan grad, at ejeren udelukker konkurrence på det omhandledemarked.
It found that the loan involved illegal andincompatible State aid, to be calculated on the basis of the difference between the interest rate actuallycharged and the relevant applicable reference rate, increased by 400 basis points as from 1 April 2002 toreflect an assumed risk increase for the lender. It ordered Germany to take immediately all necessarysteps to abolish forthwith the illegal incompatible State aid contained in the loan.
Det er imidlertid en betingelse, at den virksomhed, der anmoder om licens, har til hensigt atudbyde varer eller tjenesteydelser med andre karakteristika, der opfylder særlige behov hos forbrugerne,der ikke kan opfyldes af de eksisterende varer eller tjenesteydelser.
If the loan were tocontinue, Germany was forthwith to alter the measure, imposing an interest rate at the reference rate plus400 basis points, and inserting a provision pursuant to which the loan was to be paid back at short notice.
80.Den 28. august traf Kommissionen en beslutning efter artikel 82 vedrørende Ferrovie dello Stato SpA (FS), det italienske jernbaneselskab, for misbrug af en dominerende stilling på det italienskejernbanemarked.
), the Commission found that, in the absence of any advantage to investors, the fund and the companies invested in, the firstrequirement for the applicability of Article 87(1) of the EC Treaty was not satisfied.
Kommissionen vurderede, at FS havde forhindret det tyske jernbaneselskab Georg Verkehrsorganisation GmbH (GVG) i at drive en international passagertjeneste på strækningen Basel-Milano.
The Commissionwas therefore able to conclude that the measure at issue did not constitute State aid.
81.GVG havde siden 1995 anmodet FS om at indgå en international samarbejdsaftale (61) for at fåoplysninger om pris og disponibilitet for togkanaler og skaffe trækkraft, dvs. lokomotiv og lokofører.
According to that notice, where State resources are invested in a fund on the same terms as those applying to private investors (pari passu), it will normally be possible to conclude that the measure doesnot confer an advantage.
GVGønskede at befordre passagerer fra forskellige byer i Tyskland til Basel.
A number of factors led the Commission to conclude that there was no aidelement in this scheme.
Selskabet foreslog en non-stop(»sprinter«) jernbaneforbindelse to gange daglig fra Basel til Milano via Domodossola.
416.In a case involving business startup aid in Sardinia, the Commission found that the aid wascompatible (183).
Denne tjenesteskulle navnlig konkurrere med Cisalpino, der er et joint venture-selskab mellem FS og Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB).
In addition to this basicremuneration, a bonus of 35 % of the difference between the actual return on the participation and the‘objective minimum return’ was paid to the manager/investor.
Der er kun én daglig forbindelse mellem Basel og Milano med Cisalpino.
In its decision of 27 November concerning an aid scheme notified by Italy (
82.Som et vertikalt integreret selskab har FS et lovfæstet monopol til at drive den italienske jernbaneinfrastruktur.
418.Under the scheme, the manager of the risk capital funds, who is chosen by a call for tenders, mustcontribute his own capital to the fund.
FS er den udpegede infrastrukturforvalter og det nationale tildelingsorgan og har derforvaretaget regulerende funktioner for staten.
The Commission pointed out that selection by a call for tender makesit possible inter alia to determine the management costs, i.e. the maximum remuneration of the personchosen in his capacity as manager.
Selskabet har ansvaret for at oprette og vedligeholde denitalienske jernbaneinfrastruktur og for tildeling af togkanaler til jernbaneselskaber i Italien mod gebyr.
Inother words, in the case in point, owing to the award of the contract on the basis of an apparentlydisproportionate combination of technical and economic elements, and not exclusively on the basis of price,the public procurement procedure might not be able to choose for certain the candidate capable of providingthe services at the least cost (185).
FShar også som infrastrukturforvalter ansvaret for at udstede sikkerhedscertifikater til jernbaneselskaber.
The Commission also observed that certain measures provided for by thescheme necessarily involved using the capital contributed to the funds by the manager/investor.
Hvad angår trækkraft, konkluderede Kommissionen på basis af en detaljeret markedsundersøgelse, at FS også er dominerende på dette marked.
This new aid came in addition to a50 % loan guarantee granted by the federal government and the Land of Bavaria on a USD 90 million(around EUR 85 million) loan, which had been approved by the Commission in June.
På nuværende tidspunkt er intet andet italienskjernbaneselskab udstyret, så det kan udbyde den nødvendige trækkraft til GVG (62).
The new aidconsisted in a prolongation of the approved guarantee and in grants of EUR 19.2 million from the Federal Agency for Employment (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) aimed at covering 65 % of the costs of a social planwhich would benefit half of Dornier’s workforce.
Hvad angår de afledte markeder, blev det også vurderet, at FS var dominerende, da det er det eneste selskab, der udbyderpassagertjenester på det italienske jernbanenet på strækningen Basel-Milano.
The investigation should primarily clarify whether themeasures constitute State aid. The German government, for its part, argues that they do not fall within thescope of State aid control owing to the individual entitlements of the employees.
Bortset fra Cisalpinoudbyder FS en række daglige passagertjenester mellem Basel og Milano i samarbejde med SBB.Endvidere er adgangen til det afledte marked begrænset til selskaber, der indgår i internationalesamarbejdsaftaler.
By introducing this scheme, the Irish authorities are seeking to prevent new entrants in the market from ‘cherry picking’ good insurance risks.According to the findings of the Commission’s investigation, the risk equalisation scheme is necessary forthe stability of the health insurance system chosen by the Irish authorities.
Kommissionen konkluderede, at det kun var FS, der kunne indgå en sådaninternational samarbejdsaftale med GVG.
Furthermore, the scheme has been designed toensure that the envisaged equalisation payments, to be administered by the Irish Health Insurance Authority,are limited to the minimum necessary to neutralise differences in health insurers’ risk profiles.