Brussels, 13/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has opened a formal investigation against Germany to assess whether compensation received by Deutsche Post AG (DPAG) is compatible with EC Treaty state aid rules (Article 87).
In 2002, the Commission ordered Germany to recover incompatible state aid of €572 million from DPAG, which would have been used to finance a rebate pricing policy in its door-to-door parcel business. Following this decision, private competitors filed...