Fears that the merger, announced last September, would become clogged up in the UK's lengthy competition procedure led both companies to come up with a solution that met the concerns of the commission about the deal.
This would be technically possible, but politically embarrassing and render the entire competition procedure a charade.The irony is that the real difficulty at the heart of all this agonising about ITV lies not in the commercial TV sector at all.
Once its requirements are defined, the Commission launches, by publishing in daily newspapers in all EU member states and in the Official Journal of the European Communities, the open competition procedure, which is aimed at encouraging applications from the largest possible number of candidates.
However, the final products of host-guest reaction are mainly determined by the competition procedure of multiple kinds of intermolecular non-covalent/covalent interactions as well as structure matching features of the host template/network and the introduced guest components under corresponding experimental conditions.
Petro's crime was failing to follow competition procedures when he moved the city's waste-collection functions from the hands of four large private companies to public ownership.
It is disliked by many but it is the commission's task to be mean to a lot of people, be it member states (infringement procedures), undertakings (competition procedures) or the Council itself (withholding undesirable legislative initiatives).
There are shades of London's Garden Bridge project (yelp!) in the way that a private individual's dreamed-up scheme was adopted by a public authority, including the alleged bending of competition procedures, although in Hamburg there seems to have been a more full and open public discussion early on.
He should also heed suggestions that his officials sometimes let their power go to their heads.Heal thyselfIndeed, as the range of his activities expands, Mr Monti is coming under increasing pressure to change Europe's competition procedures and to make sure that his officials stick to agreed rules and precedents.
At the request of students, to reduce competition, the procedure was changed in the second year (cohort 2007) such that a team number was pulled from a hat and a member of that team had to answer the question correctly to receive credit.
These standards, referred to as Uniform Guidance, include procurement standards related to code of conduct, competition, procurement procedures, cost and price analysis, procurement records, contract administration, and contract provisions.
After 10 rounds of selection and amplification, selected aptamers have been characterised using a number of techniques, including fluorescence quenching, ELISA and competition ELISA procedures and a FRET type assay.
