Brussels, 16/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission's competition department has decided to close the second stage of its probe into the suspected refusal by Dutch gas company Gasunie in the "Marathon affair". Gasuni created difficulties when granting access the Norwegian subsidiary of US oil and gas producer Marathon in the nineties, which is a violation of European competition rules. The European gas directive of 1998 provides for a so-called Third Party Access (TPA) regime,...