Legal Alerts/2 Dec 2015

Competition Review – December 2015

ANTITRUST

The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (“FCCA”) accepted commitments offered by two Finnish network providers (DNA Oy and TeliaSonera Oyj) to change their network partnership concerning Eastern and Northern Finland; and to ensure the compliance of commitments, the FCCA imposed an exceptional penalty payment amounting to a total of EUR 2 million. >>

MERGER CONTROL

The FCCA approved a business transaction whereby Finnair Plc, Staffpoint Holding Oy and Kilco Oy jointly acquired a controlling interest in Nordic Regional Airlines AB. >>

STATE AID

For the first time, the European Commission approved a compensation fund mechanism to finance the provision of a universal postal service. >>

The General Court upheld the Commission’s findings that the public funding granted by Spain to facilitate the transition from analogue to digital television in remote and less urbanised areas gave a selective advantage to terrestrial platform operators especially by favouring digital terrestrial technology over other possible technologies, such as cable, satellite and fibre. >>

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

The European Court of Justice confirmed in its preliminary ruling that a tenderer refusing to undertake to pay a minimum wage to its staff may be excluded from a public procurement procedure. >>

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