Brussels, 06/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - For the first time, the European Commission has used its ability to decide on "group exemptions" in the aid sector of Member States, deciding that the latter will not have to notify certain types of aid; they are authorised a priori. The group exemption is an instrument by which the Commission decides that certain agreements are automatically exempt from the implementation of rules of competition; the Commission has been using it since the 60s for...