Only the older Europeans among us can understand how things have changed with the new European regulation on competition, which became final after a political agreement within Council (see our bulletin of 27 November, pp.10/11). The changes introduced mark the forthcoming disappearance of a historic part of Community construction, Regulation No 17 of 1962, which had been the point of departure and the basis for a policy that was entirely new for our continent and which entailed the...