They were looking for evidence that the world's largest soft-drinks company may be violating competition rules.
The Americans also say that it would be very hard to agree on competition rules.
Ofcom will have increased powers to investigate and fine companies for transgressing competition rules and content standards.
Following their government bailouts, both RBS and Lloyds must sell off branches to comply with European Union competition rules.
The EU competition watchdog is investigating whether Samsung broke EU competition rules by filing patent lawsuits against Apple.
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The rules on labelling come from Europe, and among other things are dictated by the 'single market' competition rules.
Such a market requires policing, for instance of state aid to companies, curbs on migration or the application of competition rules.
The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, threatened to take action over what could have been a breach of EU competition rules.
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There have been concerns that the effort could break EU competition rules because all bids so far had been won by BT.
The EU's divisions between free-market liberals and state interventionists will be exposed in rows over subsidies to industry, competition rules and capping executive pay.
European governments have encouraged this through subsidies, controls on Japanese imports, suspension of normal competition rules for car retailing and resistance to mass redundancies.
The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether the Greek government violated EU fair competition rules by helping Olympic Airways, the country's struggling flag-carrier.
If the government continues to bully the banks into helping it subsidise a competitor, it will run the risk of violating the European Union's competition rules.
The BBC Trust found the BBC had failed to follow its own competition rules when deciding how much to pay for the rights to provide live game commentary.
Only a united Europe could hold Gazprom accountable to transparency and competition rules, stopping the firm from dictating its terms and playing one EU country against the other.
In January, when the issue was raised by a Euro-MP, European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Alumnia said the commission had no evidence the Windows 8 security requirements violated EU competition rules.
It has filed proposals with the European Commission stating how it intends to deal with complaints made by Microsoft and more than a dozen other companies that it had broken competition rules.
"Given Ryanair's remedies package clearly addresses every issue raised in the EU's Statement of Objections, any decision to prohibit would be manifestly unfair and in contravention of EU competition rules, " said Ryanair's Robin Kiely.
But the British have been cautious about giving most firms too specific a lead, unlike the French and Germans, says Nick Brayshaw, head of manufacturing at Barclays Bank, because they worry about breaching the European Union's competition rules.
Competition rules Britain was a main player, instituting the internal market, all that, so I'm pretty relaxed, let us proceed step-by-step and in the next round yes we will talk about what needs to be done because we are enlarging the Union.
"Under the Scottish FA cup competition rules, pitch inspections can be carried out no later that four hours prior to kick-off but given the weather forecast for the week ahead, it is prudent for inspections to be carried out as quickly as possible, " said the spokesman.
The failure of the Kodak case has reminded America that it, too, could benefit from international competition-policy rules.
And if, as seems likely, the Competition Committee eventually rules against him, Murdoch will be have saved some face.
Judges ruled that the wolf that featured in the picture, dubbed Storybook Wolf, was probably a "model" and therefore breached the competition's rules.
To Bud Selig and whatever competition committee ultimately rules on this matter, you must consider expanding instant replay for a variety of reasons.
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Wieber, who didn't qualify for the individual all-around competition because Olympic rules limit the entrants to two per team, said it was a team win.
The high school teams lean about the competition goal and rules in early January and they have 6 weeks to build their robot before thge first regional competitions begin.
The European Union, by seeking to enforce competition and other rules, has been driving Italy to fight for its place in the wider market, but this is a two-way process: it also opens up Italy's markets to outsiders.
These, unlike investment rules and competition policy, are of intense interest to a public worried about dolphins, rain forests, and maltreated workers.
They have enacted a series of immediate rule changes aimed at pleasing an IOC board that complained about the sport's confusing rules and competition format.
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