Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd
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The role of the European Commission is to ensure proper application of EU competition rules to benefit consumers and companies in Europe, not for the benefit of one company.
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Member states cannot intervene on competition grounds on mergers of European dimension.
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We have 25 working days to decide whether we think there may be some negative impact on effective competition or not.
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We will examine the complaints carefully to see if there has been any violation of EU competition rules.
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Experience clearly shows that where there is more competition on a market, prices fall.
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The commission will remain determined to ensure full compliance with the March 2004 decision. The commission is obliged under treaty rules to ensure the proper application of the competition law to the benefit of consumers and companies, and not to the benefit of any individual company.
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The Justice Department and the Commission's competition department have regular contact on this case.
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We will take into account what was said at the hearing and the documents submitted before we make a decision. It will take several weeks.
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We are carefully analyzing (Microsoft's) reply and after they have had the opportunity to present their arguments at the oral hearing we will decide whether or not to impose a daily fine.
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We think he will be a truly independent adviser.
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It would be no good if one broadcaster claimed 99% and the other only 1% of the matches.
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It would be premature to conclude that offering access to source codes would necessarily resolve the problem of compliance.
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It would be premature to conclude access to the source code would resolve the problem of the lack of compliance with our decision.
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Professor Barrett is a leading and well-respected computer expert whose name was suggested to the Commission by Microsoft .