Brussels, 09/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Commission cannot be held responsible for damages incurred by UK travel company MyTravel following a merger ban which was subsequently overturned. In a judgment delivered on 9 September, the Court of First Instance ruled that, even though the Commission was incorrect in blocking the merger, the errors of assessment were not sufficiently serious to make it financially liable (case T-212/03).
In September 1999, the European Commission turned down the...