Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd
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We welcome in particular the fact that the court confirmed that discriminatory pricing agreements for domestic sales and exports to the detriment of consumers in other member states are an illegal, restrictive business practice.
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We have confirmed the deadline of February 15 on the basis that nearly eight weeks should be sufficient for Microsoft to reply to a comparatively short statement of objections.
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It is now one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed that Microsoft had to comply with the remedies imposed by the March 2004 decision.
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It is one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed Microsoft had to comply with the March 2004 decision. The Commission regrets Microsoft has failed to do so. We would prefer Microsoft to comply with the March 2004 decision, and not with their interpretation of that decision.
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I can confirm the deadline is today before midnight. The decision hasn't yet been taken. When the decision is taken, I will send out a statement.
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I can confirm the Commission is due to consider sending a letter to Poland warning Poland the Commission considers that they may be in breach of Article 21 of the merger regulations, which gives the Commission exclusive competence over mergers of a European dimension.
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I can confirm that the European Commission has received the complaints and will examine them carefully.
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I can confirm that the deadline is today, before midnight. A decision has not yet been taken, but I hope for all our sakes that it will be taken as early as possible.
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I can confirm that Microsoft did make a formal request for the hearing to be public and the request was refused by the hearing officer because the procedural regulation explicitly prohibits this.
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It's not as if we intend to introduce some major shift in approach. It's rather that we will assess in 2007 whether, in light of the cases that we've been dealing with, it would be useful to further clarify the principles.
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It's not comparable to a seller on the high street where the customer has a choice of supply. It's a company with a dominant market position. The commission has found Microsoft to be abusing that dominant market position by failing to make its technical information available.
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It is therefore premature for Microsoft to claim that the Commission has prejudiced their rights of defense.
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It will be at least several weeks because it's a complicated matter and we will have to digest very carefully the information that we obtain from the hearings and the information that we have obtained in writing.
They are not the judge. We are the judge,