23 julio, 2021 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

23 julio, 202121 julio, 2021 Juan David Gutiérrez R.

Seminario virtual de BFE+ & la U. del Pacífico: “BACK TO BASICS, Barreras regulatorias a la competencia”

'Hipster Antitrust' Rules Are Dangerous, Summers Says 21 mayo, 2022
See his interview here.
D Daniel Sokol
Mergers Involving Nascent Competition 20 mayo, 2022
Mergers Involving Nascent Competition A. Douglas Melamed Stanford Law School Abstract Mergers involving nascent competition are a hot topic in antitrust circles, especially in light of the pending FTC case against Facebook; but the thinking about the topic is nascent,...
D Daniel Sokol
Competition and Concentration: Charting the Faultlines 19 mayo, 2022
Competition and Concentration: Charting the Faultlines Stephen Davies University of East Anglia (UEA) Abstract This work addresses the widespread concern that the forces of competition are weakening worldwide. Much of the evidence for this comes from traditional concentration indices which...
D Daniel Sokol

Los principios procesales nacionales no pueden ser un obstáculo para los derechos que el Derecho de la Unión confiere a los justiciables 20 mayo, 2022
Por Mercedes AgredaTJUE: Cláusulas abusivas: (Sentencias de la Gran Sala del Tribunal de Justicia de la UE de 5 de mayo de 2022, asuntos C-869/19 y C-600/19)El TJUE ha publicado dos sentencias, Asunto C-869/19, Unicaja Banco y Asunto C-600/19, Ibercaja Banco, en los que se pronuncia sobre dos cuestiones eminentemente procesales en relación con cláusulas abus […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
El crédito de la CNMC en el concurso de la concesionaria del Proyecto Castor (derivado de la obligación de devolución a la CNMC de las compensaciones pagadas a la concesionaria por la extinción de la concesión, que fueron declaradas nulas) no es de derecho público y, por tanto, no es privilegiado general 20 mayo, 2022
Foto: Julio Miguel SotoPor Mercedes AgredaSentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid, sección 28, número 113/2022, de 24 de febrero de 2022La sociedad ESCAL era titular de la concesión de explotación del conocido como Proyecto Castor (almacenamiento de gas en una instalación subterránea). Como consecuencia de la extinción de la concesión, el RD Ley 13/20 […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Otra sentencia que rechaza la moderación de una cláusula penal de un contrato de arrendamiento 20 mayo, 2022
Foto: Julio Miguel SotoPor Mercedes AgredaEs la Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo, Sala de lo Civil, número 317/2022, de 20 de abril de 2022)En una sentencia reciente, el TS rechazó la moderación de una cláusula penal de un contrato de arrendamiento porque no había duda de que el arrendatario había incumplido de forma total la obligación de devolución del local […]
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Israel: Boycott of a Tender as Anticompetitive Conduct 19 mayo, 2022
At the beginning of May 2022, the Supreme Court of Israel decided, having confirmed the position of the lower instance, that a boycott of tender construction companies should be regarded as a violation of competition law. According to the highest judicial instance of Israel, the joint decision of the competitors not to bid constitutes a... Continue reading
Konstantin Voropaev (Elbert, Nazaretsky, Rakov & Co)
Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2021 – Poland 18 mayo, 2022
Central-Eastern European countries such as Poland may serve as an interesting point of reference for generally studying major trends in competition law and policy and, more specifically, in post-transformation countries. Their experience may reveal characteristics not present in the case of Western European EU Member States. Moreover, they face specific chal […]
Maciej Janik (Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw), Maciej Bernatt (Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw) and Marta Sznajder (Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw)
Dominant firms cannot use their own pre-existing data when competing in a newly liberalised (or adjacent) market? 17 mayo, 2022
On 12 May 2022, the European Court of Justice delivered its preliminary ruling in response to a number of questions referred to it by an Italian court tasked to assess whether the use of customer data (legitimately collected by the ENEL group during a legal monopoly position) to target offers to those same customers once... Continue reading
Carmen Puscas (Clifford Chance LLP)

Will the Supreme Court Grant Certiorari and Review the Per Se Rule? 1 febrero, 2022
I have no expertise in predicting whether the Supreme Court will grant certiorari on any given petition. But I am hopeful that the high court will do so on the issue of whether the application of the per se rule in a criminal antitrust case is unconstitutional. I have seen a couple of items recently... Continue reading The post Will the Supreme Court Grant C […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
Will 2022 be the year in which antitrust reforms become law? 31 diciembre, 2021
With 2021 coming to a close, a look back at antitrust legislation introduced in Congress over the last year will provide a sense of what new antitrust laws could come in 2022. More than a dozen bills are currently pending in Congress that could impact the future of antitrust law. Bipartisan support for strengthening the... Continue reading The post Will 2022 […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)
District Court Finds Antitrust Division’s First Wage Fixing Indictment Alleges a Per Se Violation 6 diciembre, 2021
On November 29, 2021 in U.S. v. Neeraj Jindal and John Rodgers, Civil Action No. 4:20-CR-00358A (N.D. Texas), District Court Judge Amos L. Mazzant rejected defendants’ motion to dismiss the indictment on various grounds, including challenges to the per se rule. Among other arguments, defendants argued that “wage-fixing” was not covered by the Sherman Act... […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)

Retail Council of Canada (RCC) CASL Compliance Presentation: CASL Still Matters: Common Compliance Errors 17 mayo, 2022
May 17, 2022 We are pleased to be presenting a CASL (Canadian anti-spam law) compliance program for the Retail Council of Canada and its members on May 19, 2022. Presentation Overview In Canada, commercial electronic messages (CEMs), including e-marketing through text messages, e-mails and some social media, are governed by Canada’s federal anti-spam legisla […]
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Sweeping Proposed Competition Act Amendments Introduced by the Federal Government 11 mayo, 2022
May 4, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses sweeping proposed amendments to Canada’s Competition Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-34 (Competition Act) by the federal government. The proposed amendments include significant changes to the conspiracy, criminal and civil deceptive marketing, abuse […]
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Recent Canadian Conspiracy (Cartel) Law Developments 23 marzo, 2022
March 23, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update, which discusses recent conspiracy (cartel) law developments under sections 45 and 90.1 of the Competition Act. In particular, this Update discusses recent announcements made by the Competition Bureau, the federal Innovation, Science and Industry Minist […]
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Nuevo Reglamento y Directrices de la Unión Europea sobre la exención de acuerdos verticales 10 mayo, 2022
La Comisión ha adoptado un nuevo Reglamento de exención de acuerdos verticales (VBER) junto a sus Directrices (aquí), en vigor desde el 1 de junio de 2022, derogando al Reglamento (UE) 330/2010. Sin embargo, la prohibición del artículo 101.1 del TFUE no se aplicará durante el período comprendido entre el 1 junio de 2022 y el 31 mayo de 2023 a los acuerdos ya […]
Plazo razonable de resolución y determinación de la autoridad de competencia mejor situada (STGUE de 9 de febrero de 2022) 10 febrero, 2022
La sentencia del Tribunal General de la Unión Europea (TGUE) de 9 de febrero de 2022 (aquí) realiza interesantes consideraciones sobre dos cuestiones relevantes en la aplicación pública del Derecho de la Competencia: el principio del “plazo razonable” para la tramitación del procedimiento sancionador y la determinación de la autoridad de competencia mejor si […]
Los descuentos realizados desde una posición de dominio serán lícitos si se prueba que no tuvieron la capacidad de restringir la competencia o de producir efectos de expulsión del mercado (Asunto Intel) 27 enero, 2022
El Tribunal General de la Unión Europea (TGUE) ha anulado (aquí) una importante sanción —más de 1.000 millones de euros— que en 2009 impuso la Comisión Europea al fabricante de microprocesadores Intel por realizar descuentos de fidelidad y pagos desde su posición de dominio a otros fabricantes (Dell, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard y NEC) para que le compraran los p […]

Comisión Europea v Google 28 agosto, 2015
Hace cuatro meses, la Comisión Europea le envió a Google [Diclaimer: este blog se aloja en un sitio de Google] su Statement of Objections (SO) en la que indicaba qué le objetaba a dicha firma (síntesis: buscador, android tal vez, otros que no recuerdo). La investigación comenzó en 2010, convengamos. En síntesis, se decía:"Google systematically positions […]
Francisco Agüero
i am back 28 agosto, 2015
El último post fue hace varios meses. Razones para escribir, abundan. Razones para no escribir, pueden ser mayores. Como sea: I am back.
Francisco Agüero
U. of Chicago Summer Institute Law and Economics: Economic Analysis of Contracts and Commercial Law 14 enero, 2015
Un interesante programa en Derecho & Economía imparte la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago, en julio de este año. Me parece recomendable (disclaimer: postulé a él), y hay docentes del nivel de Eric Posner, Randal Picker, entre otros.Más información, acá: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/lawecon/summerinstitute P.D.. El deadline se ha extendido, […]
Francisco Agüero

EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results 29 julio, 2021
Interesting that while the European Parliament is processing over 1000 proposed amendments to the DMA, the controversial issue of self-preferencing now seems to be a consumer protection issue and not just an antitrust one (via Reuters): Alphabet unit Google (GOOGL.O) has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and […]
Kevin Coates
Google Italy, refusal to supply decision 13 mayo, 2021
The Italian competition authority’s decision into Google’s refusal to allow interoperability between Android and a third party app is published here. Simonetta Vezzosa (@wavesblog) has done a mammoth twitter thread, translating key parts, and pausing only for occasional injections of espresso. For an uncorrected full English machine translation courtesy of D […]
Kevin Coates
The EU’s draft Digital Markets Act (DMA): mapping recitals onto the relevant articles 3 febrero, 2021
Caveat: this is a judgement exercise. The links I’ve made may be wrong and / or incomplete. Recitals without a specific Article: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 34, 35, Articles without a specific recital: 1 (subject matter and scope), 14 (opening of market investigation), 25 (cease and desist), 33 (MS request for […]
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Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

Competencia y Regulación en América Latina | Antitrust and Regulation in Latin America | Concorrência e Regulaçao na América Latina

Día: 23 de julio de 2021

Seminario virtual de BFE+ & la U. del Pacífico: “BACK TO BASICS, Barreras regulatorias a la competencia”