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Two dairies fined for unfair competition

Serbia’s Commission for Protection of Competition issued Friday fines totaling RSD 306.15mn to dairies Imlek and Mlekara Subotica. They were found to have absued their dominant position in the raw milk market, the Commission informed Tanjug.

Inside Scoop on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Nobel prize winning economists George Akerloff and Joseph Stiglitz, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, leading economists such as Robert Shiller, Anna Schwartz, James Galbraith, former lead S & L regulator William K. Black, former Tarp overseer El…

While the Financial Crisis Commission Report Looks Impressive At First Glance, It Doesn’t Hit Hard Enough … and Won’t Lead to Any Real Change

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission largely blames Greenspan, Bernanke, Geithner, Summers, the rating agencies, SEC and big banks for the economic crisis. (Here’s the final report).Bernanke is still Fed chief, and the government has substantially …

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Slams Greenspan, Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson, Summers, SEC, Rating Agencies and Big Banks for Causing Crisis

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is releasing its report Thursday.The New York Times has a preview of the report, which shows that the Commission will slam the right people for causing the financial crisis.Barry Ritholtz gives a good summary of…

“Serbia ready to negotiate with Priština”

The government and Commission for Missing Persons are ready to begin negotiations with Priština, Commission for Missing Persons Head Veljko Odalović said today.

“If talks were to begin today, we would be absolutely ready for them,” he told a news conference and added that, regardless of the current situation, the commission had continuity in its work in the southern Serbian province.

Universal Mobile Phone Chargers Coming in 2011, Says European Commission

Apple, Nokia, RIM and 11 others have made good on a promise to collaborate on a universal phone charger, now headed to Europe in early 2011. – The European Commission announced that the
first universal mobile phone chargers should arrive in Europe during the first
months of 2011.
The chargers, which will charge via micro-USB slots
and be interoperable between brands, are result of a June 2009 agreement
made
by 14 leading mobile pho…


Google Antitrust Investigation Widened by European Commission

Europe’s antitrust watchdog took up two cases accusing Google of favoring its own search and Web services over that of German publishers and an online mapping company. – The European Commission has tacked on two German cases to its antitrust
investigation into whether or not Google is unfairly promoting its own Web
services in its search results on Google.com.
The New York Times said
the Commission has taken up complaints from a conglomerate of 450 newspaper an…


Microsoft Targeted by Motorola ITC Complaint

Microsoft finds itself the target of a Motorola subsidiarys complaint filed with the International Trade Commission over Xbox-related patents. – Microsoft again finds itself in Motorolas legal cross-hairs, with the manufacturer filing a patent-infringement complaint against the Xbox franchise with the International Trade Commission.
Motorola Mobility, the manufacturers subsidiary, is requesting “that the Commission conduct an investigation …


IE Zero-Day, EU Online Privacy in Security News

The past week in IT security news featured headlines about the European Commission’s plans to protect online privacy, reports of an Internet Explorer zero-day attack and much more. – Online privacy was once again in the spotlight this past week when the
European Commission announced it is looking to tighten data protection rules
for the Web.
According
to the commission, the rules should require that businesses clearly inform
customers how, why, by whom and for how long thei…


CWT sets up futures commission merchant subsidiary

CWT, the provider of integrated logistics solutions, today announced the formation of a new company, Straits Financial LLC, to clear futures and derivatives trades for its clients. Presently, the company is in the process of registering with the National Futures Association (NFA) as a United States Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and applying for clearing memberships with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

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EU questionnaire for Serbia in November

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele stated late on Tuesday that the European Commission (EC) will send Serbia a questionnaire in November.
It will mark the beginning of the Commission’s work on developing an opinion on Serbia’s readiness to gain the status of a candidate state for the membership in the Union.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Silver Market is Manipulated

Dow Jones newswires reports:Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission … said he thinks “the public deserves some answers to their concerns that silver markets are being, and have been, manipulated.” …

1 of the 2 Administrative Judges at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Vowed NEVER to Let a Complainant Win. He’s Kept His Promise for 20 Years

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an important agency. It is largely responsible for regulating derivatives and other important instruments.It is supposed to prevent and prosecute fraud.So it is stunning that one of the two administra…

Serbia-Bavaria Commission anniversary

Serbian President Boris Tadić will attend in Munich on Monday a formal session that will mark 40th anniversary of the Serbian-Bavarian Commission. The Commission was established in 1970, with the aim to stimulate and promote the cooperation between Serbia and Bavaria in different areas. It has worked continuously from the day it was formed, except for the 1991-2001 period.

How to Properly Commission Your Data Center: 10 Errors to Avoid

Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process is a critical step in determining how the data center operates as an integrated system. The documentation produced as a result of commissioning is also the single most enduring value-added deliverable in a data center’s operational life. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Dennis Bouley outlines the 10 most common errors that prevent successful execution of the commissioning process. – Data center commissioning is an insurance policy that helps to ensure the high reliability of a data center. A proper commissioning exercise reviews and tests the data center’s physical infrastructure design to make sure it can support the projected IT load.
In this article, we’ll highlight the ten…


European Commission “to raise objections”

The European Commission will object to Serbia’s blocking Kosovo in economic organizations and its problems in Sandžak, says EP rapporteur Jelko Kacin. Kacin said that report of the European Commission on Serbian progress towards EU membership will object to obstructing the work of the Anti-Corruption Agency.

The Anniversary of 9/11

Don’t want to hear this?Tough. Grow up. 9/11 Commissioners: The 9/11 Commission’s co-chairs said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal …

EU critical of France over Roma

The European Commission has criticised France over its expulsions of Roma (Gypsies) and has requested more information about the crackdown. An interim report by the commission – the EU’s executive arm – says the French policy does not put enough emphasis on the individual circumstances of Roma facing expulsion.

Commission takes no action over Salford

The Competition Protection Commission has rejected a request from the Ministry of Agriculture to once again examine Salford’s market position. The ministry has accused the group of having a monopoly in the dairy market, and blamed them for the recent milk shortages.

EC on Serbian budget revision

Signs of economic recovery in the Western Balkans are “scarce,” except for the somewhat better situation in Serbia, the European Commission said. Domestic demand is low, unemployment is at the same level, and “the consequence of all this is strong pressure on state finances in several regional countries,” it was stated in the Commission’s internal report in Brussels, which Beta news agency was given access to.