Competition Review – June 2015

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ANTITRUST

Commission accepts commitments offered by Air France/KLM, Alitalia and Delta, members of the SkyTeam airline alliance, to lower barriers to entry or expansion on three transatlantic routes >>

MERGER CONTROL

Commission approves the creation of a joint venture between two of the world’s leading coffee manufacturers, DEMB of The Netherlands and Mondelēz of the US, subject to conditions >>

STATE AID

Commission finds Portuguese shipyard operator ENVC received EUR 290 million of incompatible aid and orders recovery from ENVC but not from new operator WestSea >>

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

The EU Court confirmed the relevance of risk transfer in evaluating the nature of concessions (in Finnish) >>

NEWS FROM FINLAND

The Public Procurement Working Group under the Ministry of Employment and the Economy published its proposal for a new act on public procurement (in Finnish) >>