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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8067

11 October 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 33 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/competition
Parliament again calls for codecision; while welcoming a series of Commission initiatives, it feels the Commission has been assigned "excessive" competencies in terms of reform proposal

Strasbourg, 10/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - By a rather narrow majority (255 to 139 with 101 abstentions) on Thursday, the European Parliament adopted the report by the Partido Popular MEP Alejandro Agag on a topic that should have been relatively straightforward: the Commission's annual report on competition policy, the 30th such report, for the year 2000. On top of activities in 2000 (which saw a record number of company mergers (345)), the resolution voted in by the EP also covers more...

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