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INVITATION TO THE PRESS
COGECA Conference on "European agricultural co-operatives and
the competition law and policy in Europe" on 13th November 2003 in
Helsinki.
The European agricultural co-operative sector intends to carry out
a stocktaking exercise of the present situation so as to check
whether the specificities of the co-operative entrepreneurial system are
sufficiently taken into account in the European competition policy.
At the same time, following the reform of the European competition
law, the sector would also like to ensure that the national authorities play
their role and endeavour that their interpretations of the competition
law are as close to one another as possible so as to avoid distortions of
competition between Member States.
In order to tackle these important issues, Mr. Marcus H.
BORGSTRÖM, President of the General Committee for Agricultural Co-operation in
the EU, COGECA, is pleased to invite you to a conference which will focus
on the theme: European agricultural co-operatives and the competition law
and policy in Europe. High level speakers such as Mr. Mario MONTI, EU Commissioner for Competition, and Mr. Mauri PEKKARINEN, Finnish
Minister of Trade and Industry, will participate in this important event. (The
programme of the conference is available on : www.copa-cogeca.be).
The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on 13 November
2003 at the Helsinki Fair Centre, Messuaukio 1, 00520 Helsinki (FIN), Tel.
+358 9 150 91, http://www.finnexpo.fi, E-mail: info@finnexpo.fi.
For more information on the conference, please contact: Laurent
Lourdais, Director COPA-COGECA, Tel: +32 2 287 27 95,
E-mail: laurent.lourdais@copa-cogeca.be.
Press and Communication Officer : Michelle Roverelli, Tel.: +32 2
287 27 18, Mobile : +32 474 84 08 36, E-mail : michelle.roverelli@copa-cogeca.be
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