European Court Hears Ryanair's Appeal Against Commission's Charleroi Decision.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-12 March 2008-RYANAIR: European Court Hears Ryanair's Appeal Against Commission's Charleroi Decision(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Ryanair, Europe's favourite airline, today confirmed that the European Court of First Instance (CFI) had heard its appeal against the EU Commission's anti competitive decision in the Charleroi case in 2004. The Commission ignored 30 years of Market Economy Investor Principal precedent cases and changed its own (MEIP) rules in the Charleroi case in order to find against Ryanair. The Commission failed to apply the accepted MEIP test, which obliges it to allow state owned companies to compete on a level playing field with similar privately owned companies.

The Commission ignored...