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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8672

24 March 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Record fine for Microsoft, which plans to appeal

Brussels, 23/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, Commissioner Mario Monti is to propose to his colleagues a record fine of 497 million EUR to the Microsoft group. If the college votes the decision through, this will be the largest fine, in financial terms, ever imposed on a company by the European Commission. The sad record for the largest fine imposed on a single group was previously held by the Hoffman-La Roche group (462 million EUR in 2001), for having taken part in a vitamin...

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