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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10435
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/competition

Investigation into luxury watch manufacturers

Brussels, 05/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 5 August, the European Commission announced the opening of formal anti-trust proceedings to investigate an alleged refusal by several luxury watch manufacturers to supply spare parts to independent repairers, thus acting in breach of EU competition rules. The names of the manufacturers suspected of illegal agreements have not been given. The opening of such proceedings comes further to a ruling in December 2010 at the European General Court,...