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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7662

24 February 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 54
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commissioner Mario Monti welcomes announced disappearance of German-Austrian system of fixed book prices, replaced by national systems

Brussels, 23/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - German and Austrian publishers' unions have agreed to accept the European Commission's observations on their new systems for book prices, it was stated on Wednesday by the spokesman's service for European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti. "I very much welcome this development; it means that we have finally reached the solution which the Commission and my predecessor Mr Karel Van Miert in particular had always tried to achieve: to make sure that...

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