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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9570
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

Advocate general says ECJ should reject Sony BMG's appeal, which has to prove merger won't be harmful

Luxembourg, 20/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - In its conclusions submitted on 13 December, the advocate general at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Juliane Kokott (Germany) called for the ECJ to reject the appeal by the Sony (USA) and Bertelsmann music publishing (Germany) joint venture BMG. Now known as Sony BMG, this new company went to the ECJ to annul a decision by the Court of First Instance, which refused the authorisation of the merger in July 2006 (EUROPE 9232). If the Court follows...

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