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Thinkpad (EUNN) London - European Union regulators accused the American credit card company, MasterCard, Inc. (NYSE: MA), of restricting competition between banks by setting minimum fees for retailers that accept its MasterCard and Maestro payment cards.

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Microsoft The price-fixing charge marks the second time EU regulators have accused MasterCard of breaking antitrust rules. The first time was in September 2003, when MasterCard charged cross-border interchange fees paid by merchant banks to card-issuing banks for payments made with a MasterCard or a Maestro card. At that time, MasterCard said that its cross-border interchange fees were lawful because they were competitive to what other issuers charged.

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Laptop Computers In reference to the current price-fixing charges over prices retailers pay, the European Commission said in a statement Friday, "The Commission's preliminary view is that such behavior is contrary to the EC Treaty's ban on restrictive business practices."

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Laptop Computer Should the Commission rule against MasterCard, it could ban MasterCard's fees if regulators believe that any benefits of the fees are outweighed by "restrictive effects on price competition between merchant banks."

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Desktop Computer The European Commission wants to develop a programme where customers would pay the same price to make payments or transfer money to or from another country in the 12 nations area that uses the euro currency.

Notebooks It wants to see the same fees charged for domestic and cross-border retail payments by 2010, saying this will increase trade across borders and help boost Europe's economy.

Lenovo Some 45 percent of all credit or debit cards issued in the EU are MasterCard or Maestro.

Hard Drive MasterCards are accepted by some 85 percent of EU retailers who take debit card payments. In 2004 a total of 23 billion card payments were made in the EU, with an overall value of 1.35 trillion euros ($1.69 trillion), the commission said.

Travelstar Regulators said the MasterCard charges illustrates one of the problems identified during a recent probe into the banking sector: the importance of agreements between banks that raise the cost of using payment cards.

Gateway Shares of MasterCard were unchanged at $48 at the close of the week's trading session in New York.

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