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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8394

6 February 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 35 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
E.ON/Ruhrgas rivals withdraw complaint about merger between two groups

Brussels, 05/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with Welt am Sonntag, Ulf Böge, President of the German federal cartels office, denounced the approach taken by E.ON, the country's second largest electricity group, which, in order to have its merger with the largest German gas group Ruhrgas endorsed by the competition authorities, is said to have "bought" the approval of the nine competitors (including Fortum, EnBW and Concord Power), which had complained about the German government's...

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