Thursday, April 10, 2008
Block Exemption: End of the road?
Industry rumours suggest the European Commission may ditch regulations
As media rumours spread that the European Commission’s car industry competition mandarin wants to ditch block exemption regulations, a top UK academic is predicting that the system is doomed. Paolo Cesarini, the Commission’s car industry competition mandarin, is said to have written in internal documents that ‘there is no valid reason’ to replace them.
The BER governing car sales may be scrapped
“I reckon that by 2010 it (block exemption) will be so minimal that it will have gone away,” said Peter Cooke, the University of Buckingham’s professor of automotive management.
DATED: 10.04.08
FEED: MT
As media rumours spread that the European Commission’s car industry competition mandarin wants to ditch block exemption regulations, a top UK academic is predicting that the system is doomed. Paolo Cesarini, the Commission’s car industry competition mandarin, is said to have written in internal documents that ‘there is no valid reason’ to replace them.
The BER governing car sales may be scrapped
“I reckon that by 2010 it (block exemption) will be so minimal that it will have gone away,” said Peter Cooke, the University of Buckingham’s professor of automotive management.
DATED: 10.04.08
FEED: MT
