
European Union regulators will in June set out proposals to tackle Chinese state-backed companies enjoying an unfair advantage versus their European counterparts, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Monday,reported Reuters.
Germany and France have led calls to EU antitrust regulators to do more to secure a level playing field for European companies competing with Chinese firms.
Last month, the two countries together with Italy and Poland urged Vestager to come up with proposals to revamp EU antitrust rules by the end of June.
“We’re working on new powers to protect fair competition – powers that would allow us to deal, for example, with the harm that foreign subsidies and state ownership can do to competition in Europe,” Vestager said at a College of Europe conference.
“By the end of June, we plan to publish a White Paper, to get input on our ideas for how these new powers could work,” she said. White papers are proposals for interested parties to comment on before a final draft is adopted as legislation.
Vestager also signaled a tougher line against dominant companies squeezing out smaller rivals, saying a cease and desist order in today’s world was not enough and action might be needed on both sides of the Atlantic.
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