Competition Law in Tourism

EU COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY IN THE TOURISM SECTOR 85 18. EC Press Release, Antitrust: Commission accepts commitments from Amazon on e-books, 04.05.2017, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1223_en.pdf. 19. EC Press Release, Antitrust: Commission renders legally binding commitments from Star alliance members Air Canada, United and Lufthansa on transatlantic air transport passenger market, 23.05.2013, available at: https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-456_en.htm?locale=en. 20. EC Press Release, Declaration of 1990 as “the European Year of Tourism”, available at: https:// europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-89-891_en.htm. 21. EC Press Release, Digital Single Market: EU negotiators agree to set up new European rules to improve fairness of online platforms’ trading practices, 14.02.2019, available at: https://europa.eu/ rapid/press-release_IP-19-1168_en.htm. 22. EC Press Release, French state aid schemes, 1990, available at: https://europa.eu/rapid/press- -release_IP-89-985_en.htm. 23. EC Press Release: Antitrust: Commission publishes report on online hotel booking, 06.04.2017, available at: https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEX-17-896_en.htm. 24. EC Press-Release, Antitrust: Commission opens three investigations into suspected anticompetitive practices in e-commerce, 02.02.2017, available at: https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17- -201_en.htm. 25. EC Press Release, State aid: Commission approves €3.2 billion public support by seven Member States for a pan-European research and innovation project in all segments of the battery value chain, 19.12.2019, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ ip_19_6705. 26. EC Press Release, State aid: Commission approves French scheme deferring payment by airlines of certain taxes to mitigate economic impact of coronavirus outbreak, 31.03.2020, available at: https:// ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_514. 27. EC Press Release, State aid: Commission approves Danish public guarantee of up to €137 million to compensate airline SAS for damage caused by coronavirus outbreak, 15.04.2020, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_667. 28. European Commission, Competition Policy Brief, Issue 2: New State aid rules for a competitive aviation industry, February 2014, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/ cpb/2014/002_en.pdf. 29. European Commission, General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) – Frequently Asked Questions, 2015, available at: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/legislation/practical_ guide_gber_en.pdf. 30. European Commission, Report on The Monitoring Exercise Carried out in the Online Hotel Booking Sector by EU Competition Authorities in 2016, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/ competition/ecn/hotel_monitoring_report_en.pdf. 31. European Commission, Roadmap of Evaluation of the two Block Exemption Regulations for horizontal co-operation agreements, 05.09.2019; available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/ better-regulation/initiative/11886/publication/5763121/attachment/090166e5c72b479f_ en. 32. European Commission, VI Report on competition policy, 1976, available at: https://ec.europa. eu/competition/publications/annual_report/ar_1976_en.pdf. 33. European Commission: Outcome of the meeting of ECN DGs on 17.02.2017, https:// ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/ECN_meeting_outcome_17022017.pdf. 34. European Commission: State aid, Recovery of unlawful aid, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/ competition/state_aid/studies_reports/recovery.html. 35. European Commission: Support studies for the evaluation of the VBER, Final Report, https:// ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/reports/kd0420219enn.pdf. 36. European Council Conclusions, 20.06.2019, available at: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/ media/39922/20-21-euco-final-conclusions-en.pdf.

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTE4NzM5Nw==