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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8227

7 June 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 33
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of first instance
Court annuls Commission decision to refuse to authorise Airtours/First Choice merger

Luxembourg, 06/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Court of First Instance has annulled the European Commission decision from 1999 declaring the merger between Airtours and First Choice incompatible with the common market (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.11). A CFI press release said that because of "a number of incorrect findings", the Commission "did not adequately show how the concentration would create a collective dominant position", failing to establish, "as it should have done, that … the three...

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