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Clearance for Plastic Omnium’s buy of Inergy Automotive Systems

02 September 2010

The European Commission authorised, on 1 September, the acquisition of the French firm Inergy Automotive Systems by Plastic Omnium (also of France), which becomes sole owner of this firm initially controlled jointly with Belgium’s Solvay. Plastic Omnium manufactures plastic automotive equipment...

Financial supervision : MEPs poised to ink deal - 02/09/2010

State aid : ECJ: General Court overstepped review authority in Scott case - 02/09/2010

Competition : Court says compensation to Deutsche Post not state aid - 02/09/2010

Abu Dhabi Mar-ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems merger cleared - 02/09/2010

Industry : Producer prices slightly up in EU - 02/09/2010

Intellectual property/European Patents Court : Advocates-general pinpoint problems in Commission’s draft - 01/09/2010

Berlin supports financial tax - 01/09/2010

Taxation : Banks to foot multi-billion euro crisis bill - 01/09/2010

EU/US/Australia : Executive green-lights exchange of audit documents - 01/09/2010

EIB loan for telecoms in France - 31/08/2010

Regulating raw materials markets - 31/08/2010

Ecofin Council : Commission to gauge support for transaction tax - 31/08/2010

CPMR and AER pay tribute to Georges Pierret - 30/08/2010

Rating agencies : Fitch applies for EU registration - 30/08/2010

Acquisition by Crédit Suisse and Barclays of Ionbond Group - 27/08/2010

Competition : Executive authorises merger operations - 27/08/2010

Telecommunications : Draft amending budget to hire BEREC staff - 27/08/2010

State support for Fortis Bank Nederland and ABN Amro - 27/08/2010

Banks : Stress tests: politicians satisfied – analysts rather sceptical - 27/08/2010

EIB: JESSICA Holding Fund for Bulgaria - 27/08/2010

Additional POPs banned - 27/08/2010

Commission approves US airliner merger - 27/08/2010

Antitrust : Commission initiates formal investigations against IBM - 27/08/2010

Strengthen the voice of financial services users - 27/08/2010

Investigation into marine insurance agreements - 27/08/2010

Commission sends Statement of Objections to Servier - 27/08/2010

Commission clears Schlumberger’s proposed acquisition of Smith - 27/08/2010

Vehicles : New type-approval regulation proposed for tractors - 23/07/2010

Seven banks fail - 23/07/2010

Bank support schemes extended - 23/07/2010

EU, IMF meet Hungarian banks - 23/07/2010

EU, IMF meet Romanian banks - 23/07/2010

Banking : “Evidence” says banks in need of further cash injections - 22/07/2010

Industrial new orders up - 22/07/2010

Sybase-SAP merger okayed - 22/07/2010

Energy : Coal state aid exemption slashed to just four years - 20/07/2010

Regional aid : Four regions authorised to maintain higher aid ceiling - 20/07/2010

Competition : Stiff fines for phosphate cartel - 20/07/2010

Probe into French aid to aeronautic suppliers - 20/07/2010

Audiovisual policy : Commission clears funding for France Télévisions - 20/07/2010

EstWin aid authorised - 20/07/2010

Portugal must recover aid - 20/07/2010

Broadcasting : Sky Italia can bid in Italian DTT tender - 22/07/2010

Spanish broadcaster’s tax scheme cleared - 20/07/2010

EIB loan for SMEs in France - 20/07/2010

Green light to Sweden’s newspaper aid scheme - 20/07/2010

EU/US : Report: SMEs’ dominance in Europe due to more fragmented market - 19/07/2010

Library digitisation : EU approves Google’s Dutch book scanning deal - 19/07/2010

Chemical industry merger approved - 19/07/2010

EU/US : MEPs pleased with level of cooperation on financial reform - 16/07/2010

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