Competition policy

The European Commission’s probe into suspected anti-trust activity in the pharmaceutical sector is rumbling on, with further dawn raids earlier this week.

The EC has published a non-confidential version of the ruling that Intel broke antitrust rules by excluding competitors from the market for x86 computer chips.

Anti-trust legislation, particularly involving raids at dawn, is no way to improve productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, says Nuala Moran.

For two years France’s industrial innovation agency put large sums of public money into big company R&D projects. No longer.

The European Commission said it will investigate whether a €96 million aid that France plans to grant Peugeot-Citroën and other partners for the development of a hybrid diesel car is compatible with EC Treaty state aid rules.