11/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is planning to authorise a new joint venture, Viking Cable AS, to build and run a new deep-sea high tension cable for transporting electricity between Norway and Germany. On 11 July 2000, the Commission received notification of three agreements drawn up between PreussenElektra (now E.ON Energie), Statkraft, Statnett and Viking Cable AS concerning placing the new cable. No direct link (not passing through a third country) yet exists between...