Briefing file for meeting of Directors General for Competition. Subjects include: cartel cases, enforcement of Articles 81 and 82, Single Euro Payments area, the financial crisis, food and oil prices, sticky retail prices and maintenance of high margins, inquiry into the pharmaceuticals sector, actions for damages, Regulation 1/2003, merger regulation; presentations by the delegates. Also includes: biographies of delegates (Costakis Christoforou, Chairman of the Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition; Clara Guzmán, Director of Investigation of the Spanish National Competition Commission; Małgorzata Krasnodębska-Tomkiel, President of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection; Manuel Sebastião, President of the Portuguese Competition Authority; Jani Soršak, Acting Director of the Slovenian Competition Protection Office; Jan-Erik Ljusberg, Acting Director General of the Swedish Competition Authority; Luigi Fiorentino, Secretary General of the Italian Competition Authority), summary on visit to CAB energy advisor to Portuguese Minister of Economy (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice) and report by the Competition Authority on the fuel market in Portugal; study from the Austrian Federal Competition Authority into the Petroleum Market.

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