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Article: WASTE DISPOSAL: COMMISSION REFERS BEG JOINT VENTURE TO GERMAN AUTHORITIES.(European Commission, Bremerhavener Entsorgungsgesellschaft mbH)(Brief Article)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- June 5, 2002
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The European Commission has referred the proposed acquisition of joint control of the Bremerhavener Entsorgungsgesellschaft mbH (BEG) by Karl Nehlsen GmbH & Co KG (Nehlsen), Rethmann Entsorgungswirtschaft GmbH & Co KG (Rethmann) and swb AG (swb) back to the German competition authority, the Federal Cartel Office).The Federal Cartel Office believes that this merger threatens to create dominant positions on the regional markets for the incineration of municipal and commercial waste in the Saxony/Bremen/Hamburg area, and requested that they be allowed to deal with the case. The Commission believes that the Federal Cartel Office is better placed to examine the ...