1.   In both cases national competition laws will have to be complied with.

2.   The need to secure approval under US competition law encouraged the company to issue the new shares in two stages.

3.   Alston said the ACCC is too reactive in its role of policing competition law.

4.   American antitrust officials are looking at whether the OPEC cartel has violated domestic competition laws.

5.   Air transport has traditionally been exempted from EU competition law, left to national governments to resolve.

6.   By merging it with an existing case the commission could be in a position to rule on all purported violations of competition law much sooner.

7.   German competition laws also prohibit a wide variety of discount and rebate plans.

8.   He said current legislation should be brought in line with new competition law due to be discussed in the next session of parliament.

9.   He said the company hopes the government will change competition law to resolve the regulation dispute.

10.   He told the Bloomberg forum today that a promised review of cross-media ownership rules under a coalition government might also include competition laws.