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Sursa foto: WorldBakers The European Commission has extended until December 31, 2021 and expanded the Temporary State Aid Framework to support European economies in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, informs the National Credit Guarantee Fund for SMEs (FNGCIMM), an institution that contributes to the relaunch of the Romanian economy through the National Investment and Economic Recovery Plan with four programmes. "The European Commission has announced the extension until December 31, 2021 of the Temporary State Aid Framework, adopted on March 19, 2020, to support the European economy and...

In this Issue: United States 1. FTC to study impact of physician group and health care facility mergers. As part of its Merger Retrospective Program, on Jan. 13, 2021, the FTC issued an Order to File a Special Report to six health insurance companies. The FTC plans to use information gathered through the Special Report (e.g., patient-level data from 2015 to 2020) to analyze the competitive impact of physician and health care facility consolidation, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in markets for health care services. 2. FTC approves final order imposing conditions on combination of Pfiz...

This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €300 million Austrian scheme for package travel organisers and facilitators of linked travel services in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: “ The package travel industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, due to restrictions on international travel that Austria and other countries had to impose to limit the spread of the virus. This €300 million...

Sibiu talks about its new incentive scheme, with up to €800,000 available per airline Sibiu Airport, in the centre of Romania, has a catchment of around 2.6 million. It is now offering EU-approved state aid of up to €800,000 per airline. For details, see the airport’s The Route Shop profile. Despite Sibiu Airport’s traffic decline from coronavirus, its management team has been working hard to get the airport back to traffic levels seen pre-pandemic as soon as possible. To help with this, Sibiu is offering all interested airlines a state-aid scheme approved in line with the conditions ...

Friday, February 5, 2021 UK merger control – a new dawn? The start of 2021 coincides with the end of the transition period following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. In turn, this brings about the most significant change to UK merger control since the introduction of the current UK regime by the Enterprise Act 2002. This is because, as reported in previous editions of Competition Currents, one of the key consequences of the end of the transition period is that the EU’s “one-stop shop” merger control regime no longer covers the UK: new M&A transactions are now potentially ...