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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9838

12 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/state aid
Commission finds aid granted to BT partially unlawful and orders recovery

Brussels, 11/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 11 February, the European Commission reached the conclusion that the guarantee granted by the UK public authorities to cover the pension liabilities of the BT Group plc on the telecommunications market of the new is partially unlawful under EC Treaty State aid rules. The Commission does not call into question the safeguards for BT's employees at the time of the company's privatisation in 1994. However, in the time since the safeguards, BT...

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