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to I do not renew of the guiding lines EU on the application of the rules of the competition to the marine transport
the EU commission has announced the decision to confirm of the expiration next the 28 september
February 19, 2013
The EU commission, confirming the preannounced decision to abolish the specific norms antitrust for the marine transport ( on 4 May 2012), it has communicated today that it will not extend or it will renew the guiding lines on the application of the rules of the competition to the services of marine transport (article 81 of the ec treaty, now become article 101 of the Treaty on the Operation of the European Union) that they are in vigor for the duration five-year-old to pass from on October 18, 2008, given of abrogation of the exemption for category in favour of the conference marine of line ( on September 25, 2006 and 1° July 2008), and that they will expire next the 28 september.
The EU commission has remembered that last May an appropriate public consultation on the norms is started antitrust for the shipping and has emphasized that such procedure has confirmed the preliminary analysis of the Commission second which they are not more necessary specific norms applicable to contracts of marine transport. Brussels has remembered moreover that the initial scope of these lines guides era mainly that to facilitate the transition from for transport marine a specific picture to a general picture of competition after the abrogation in the 2006 of an exception to the norms antitrust granted to the marine conferences. According to the Commission, this transition is completed with success.
The Commission has explained that the decision not to be extended the guiding lines is coherent with general politics of the stiff Commission to gradually eliminate the sector norms in matter of understandings and abuse of dominant position and has specified, moreover, than these lines it guides now overlap to the guiding lines general antitrusts, which for example the lines guide on the agreements of horizontal cooperation.
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The EU commission, confirming the preannounced decision to abolish the specific norms antitrust for the marine transport 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
