21.   The subsidies to Addinol Mineraloel GmbH and Addinol Lube Oil GmbH and Co. KG violate EU laws by threatening to distort fair competition, the European Commission said.

22.   Under EU rules, the Commission can veto or order changes to mergers or alliances it judges to unfairly distort competition.

23.   He also attacked state-owned airlines which, he said, received state subsidies which distorted competition.

24.   He said that Iberia would not be permitted to use its new capital to finance any move or activity likely to distort competition in the market for air transport.

25.   Annan in addition pressed rich countries to abolish subsidies that distort competition in international markets.

26.   But Van Miert wants full information to determine whether the arrangement actually entails state aid that might distort competition.

27.   These two banks feared that the terms distorted competition and bore excessively on the taxpayer.

28.   To win acceptance, such aids must not put other EU countries at a disadvantage nor distort competition in the internal single market.

29.   They stressed that the planned aid for CL is of such scope as to distort competition to the point of affecting employment at BNP and Societe Generale.

30.   Weber repeated attacks on state-owned airlines which, he said, received state subsidies which in turn distorted competition.