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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8820

4 November 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 54
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Impala announces intention to appeal Commission's decision on Sony-BMG merger

Brussels, 03/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - The association of independent artists and music producers (Impala) has decided to appeal to the Court of Justice further to the European Commission's decision to authorise a merger between Sony and BMG unconditionally. Although it noted a relatively close parallelism between the prices of CDs marketed by the 5 majors, the Commission had to admit that it did not have sufficient evidence to oppose the operation or to call for additional conditions from...

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