COPENHAGEN, May 20 (Reuters) - Danish ferry operator DFDS

DFDS.CO said the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed its original decision that Groupe Eurotunnel

GETP.PA should be barred from operating a ferry service from Dover.

"CMA will now consider responses to its provisional decisions before publishing its final decision in the remittal next month," DFDS said in a statement.

Britain's competition regulator ruled last June that Eurotunnel's acquisition of the ferries was a merger that hurt competition, a decision Eurotunnel appealed. ID:nL6N0MI178

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