Competition policy

The European Commission (EC) aims to cooperate with national competition authorities in deciding cases, with the EC focusing on cases which are of special interest to the European Community. The EC has approved several mergers, including the merger of UK companies Grand Metropolitan and Guinness, the purchase of UK-based ICI's titanium dioxide business by DuPont of the US and the merger between Tandem Computers of the US and Compaq Computer Corp. Microsoft's activities in the EU market will be investigated, while Digital Equipment Corp has made undertakings on the pricing and supply of its hardware and software.