3. In the cases referred to in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 2, where the participating insurance or reinsurance undertaking or the insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company which has its head office in the Union is either a related undertaking of, or is itself a regulated entity or a mixed financial holding company which is subject to supplementary supervision in accordance with Article 5(2) of Directive 2002/87/EC, the group supervisor may, after consulting the other supervisory authorities concerned, decide not to carry out at the level of that participating insurance or reinsurance undertaking or that insurance h ...[+++]olding company or mixed financial holding company the supervision of risk concentration referred to in Article 244 of this Directive, the supervision of intra-group transactions referred to in Article 245 of this Directive, or both.

- the degree of concentration in the retail trade and in other processing companies has quadrupled over the last five years and the concentration will increase as a result of the economic crisis and the bankruptcy of small- and medium-sized and local enterprises, a state of affairs that will make negotiations between producers, companies and consumers ever more difficult;

When we say that 60% of the aerospace industry is concentrated in Quebec, it is not small companies: Bell Helicopter, L3 Communications, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Bombardier, CMC Electronics, Rolls-Royce Canada, not to mention all the small and medium sized companies with aerospace connections.

The fact that the market is concentrated and power exercised by a few players in the acquisition of rights means that independent production companies are unable to fully exploit new forms of content distribution and to retain rights, and independent production companies are unable to attract capital and growth, remaining thus heavily funded with a level of concentration which is blocking innovation.

The Commission has approved a concentration by which the Swiss company Adia s.a (ADIA) acquires sole control of the French company Ecco s. a (ECCO) The relevant market is the provision of temporary personnel services where both companies, ADIA and ECCO, are primarily engaged.

The present concentration rules - which generally require the Commission, within a month of receiving notification, to give the businesses involved an indication as to where they stand legally - apply to concentrative joint ventures, i.e. those enjoying genuine autonomy vis-à-vis the parent companies concerned.