[PDF] Top 20 Report from the Commission on competition policy 2009. COM (2010) 282 final, 3 June 2010

... the Commission launched a market test on commitments offered by the French energy company EDF, in the framework of the EDF Customer Foreclosure case 97 ...December 2009, a preliminary assessment within the ... See full document

... European Commission and Macao's senior officials continued in 2009 to explore means of cooperation in the area of taxation of ...in 2010. 2009 has also seen an expansion of people-to-people ... See full document

... of competition contrary to Article 81 EC, the opinion specifies that the assessment of whether there is foreclosure has to be examined in the context of the overall competitive situation and existing economic and ... See full document

... The UN's MDG Monitor 41 shows that most countries in the EU's southern neighbourhood region are on track to achieve the MDGs by 2015. Nevertheless major challenges remain particularly in the area of access to education ... See full document

... days from the date on which an admissible payment request is registered or 30 calendar days for payments relating to service or supply contracts, save where the contract provides ...otherwise. Commission ... See full document

... transferred from the Fund to be directly born by the ...provisioned from the Budget and has to be maintained at a certain percentage of the outstanding amount of the loans and loan guarantees covered by the ... See full document

... 31. The basic principle set out in the revised rules remains that, in the presence of limited market power, companies are free to decide how their products are distributed, provided their agreements do not contain ... See full document

... came from persons or bodies established in Belgium because of the number of enterprises, law firms, associations and NGOs operating at European ...Apart from that, the bulk of the applications came ... See full document

... ranging from close to balance budget in 2007 to a surplus of 3% of GDP in ...the policy of reducing the social security contributions since 2006 appear to have led to a considerable shrinkage of the ... See full document

... economic policy aims are not the only considerations to be taken into ...the Commission to define standards for an adequate pension in ...the Commission to consider a system of specific cost ... See full document

... was seen as significant although less so than intended. Thus, the measures supported by the assistance contributed to the reinforcement of the internal audit and control functions and the adoption of the Chamber of ... See full document

... the Commission has, within the framework of the political dialogue, 16 transmitted all new proposals to national Parliaments, and replied to their ...As from 1 December 2009, this framework has been ... See full document

... 3 million people in the North Eastern provinces of North and South Kivu and Haut and Bas-Uele. ECHO continued to assist internally displaced people in North and South Kivu, as well as in Haut and Bas-Uele, where ... See full document

... the final stages of ...the final date of eligibility of expenditure up to 31 December 2011, for ex-ISPA (and now Cohesion Fund) projects first approved from 1 January 2004 onwards, and up to 31 ... See full document

... September 2009, the Commission issued its second major report, covering 12 policy areas which impact on ...the Commission is looking for positive synergies with development objectives ... See full document

... of policy formulation, it is true that it might not always be easy to measure the concrete impact of national Parliaments' opinions on a given final legislative ...the Commission is negotiating ... See full document

... in 2009 2 with the adoption by the European Parliament and the Council of two "omnibus" ...March 2009 and "omnibus part 4" was adopted on 18 June ...the Commission to make ... See full document

... the Commission issued guidance to Member States on how it would assess support to specific policy objectives of common European interest, such as R&D, regional development, the environment or the ... See full document

... fining policy, the Commission encourages a culture of compliance with competition law at the level of the entire company ...take competition law seriously and to strive to prevent breaches of ... See full document

... resulting from the closure enquiry were all concluded by the end of 2009, apart for one remaining case (in Spain) which is to be finalised in spring ... See full document