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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8240

24 June 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission clears B&W Loudspeakers distribution system after company deletes hard-core violations

Brussels, 24/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has dropped its objections against the distribution system of B&W Loudspeakers Ltd after the UK-based company, which makes high-quality loudspeakers for hi-fi and home cinema sound reproduction systems, put an end to certain hard-core violations of antitrust law. In January 2000, B&W Loudspeakers, Europe's second most important supplier of top-quality loudspeakers after Bang & Olufsen, notified a selective distribution system for...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Seville decisions on illegal immigration and security open way to generous and open European policy on legal immigration and the right to asylum
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/CIVIL SOCIETY: Dehaene stresses that meeting with civil society is neither first nor last - Entry into heart of debate with Haensch - VDE stresses that European Council of Seville placed emphasis on respect of timetable
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/CIVIL SOCIETY: First contributions to the debate
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF SEVILLE: Contrasted reactions in European Parliament - Amnesty International relief and hope of Greenpeace
(EU) EU/BALAKANS: ECHO pulls out of Montenegro
(EU) WEU ASSEMBLY: Buehler wants more observers for elections in Macedonia
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network concerns for situation in Tunisia, Palestine and Greece
(EU) EU/AFGHANISTAN:
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE:
(EU) EP/MIDDLE EAST:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Health Ministers discuss patient mobility and revision of pharmaceutical legislation
(EU) EU/WTO/MEDICINES: Commission to propose, at WTO, a complex mechanism for authorising manufacture and exportation of medicines under compulsory license to poor countries
(EU) EU/WTO/AGRICULTURE: Commission proposes to open negotiations to amend Community regime for imports of cereals and rice
(EU) EU/SEVILLE/ECONOMY: European Council undertakes to respect Stability Pact but does not mention 2004 for return to budgetary balance
(EU) EU/EURO:
(EU) EU/COMPETItiON: Commission clears B&W Loudspeakers distribution system after company deletes hard-core violations
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Metronet authorised to buy of two London Tube infrastructure companies
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Yes to joint acquisitions in cinema screen advertising
(EU) EP/BUDGET 2003: Färm report recommends tough policy so exceeding ceiling on administrative spending can be avoided
(EU) EP/FRAUD: Ms Theato impressed by open-mindedness of Danish Parliament's European Affairs Committee on setting up of European prosecutor
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT: Mr Nielson wants more active participation of indigenous peoples in co-operation between EU and partners
(EU) EU/ZIMBABWE: Commission provides a further Euro 6 million for victims of food shortages in Zimbabwe
(EU) EU/EIB: EUR 30 million loan to Apulia region
(EU) EU/LATIN AMERICA/ASIA:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) UE/COURT OF JUSTICE: Research contracts between private enterprise and German universities will no longer be exempt from VAT
(EU) UE/COURT OF JUSTICE: Netherlands has Commission condemned for authorising Austria and Sweden to keep more stringent norms for the use of cadmium
(EU) G7/MONEY LAUNDERING/TERRORISM: FATF adopts new black list of uncooperative territories
(EU) EU/REFUGEES/WOMEN:
(EU) EU/JOURNALISM:
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY: 55% of basic public services are accessible on Internet, says Commission survey
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Networking of national administrations to speed up candidates' adoption of Community acquis
(EU) EU/ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE: Hearing on "children first"
(EU) EU/COLLEGE OF EUROPE:
(EU) EU/WOMEN:
(EU) EU/EUROBAROMETER: Only in Britain does a majority of the public remain opposed to single currency
(EU) EU/STATISTICS: Council common position on amendment of regulation concerning structural business statistics
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Fall in industrial production in April
(EU) EU/CANARY ISLANDS:
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE:
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