Brussels, 24/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has decided to carry out itself the inquiry into the planned acquisition of Vivendi Universal Publishing (VUP) by Lagardère itself and has subsequently rejected the French competition authorities request to deal with the matter. On 14 May 2003, the French authorities lodged an application asking that the case be referred to them as the transaction essentially affected French markets forming part of the "book chain" (markets in the...