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M. Niefer, Antitrust Div., US Dept. of Justice has written on Donald Turner, Vertical Restraints, and the Inhospitality Tradition of Antitrust. ABSTRACT: Donald Turner famously said that he approached territorial and customer restraints on distribution “not hospitably, in the tradition...
Marek Martyniszyn, Queen's University Belfast offers Japanese Approaches to Extraterritoriality in Competition Law. ABSTRACT: Extraterritorial application of domestic competition law is an important feature of the current regulatory framework governing anticompetitive conduct. Japan was initially hesitant to apply its Anti-Monopoly...
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, London School of Economics looks into The Future of Article 102 TFEU after Intel. ABSTRACT: The Court judgment in Intel clarifies two crucial aspects relating to the interpretation of Article 102 TFEU. As a matter of principle,...
Colegio San Viator, Madrid, circa 1964Querido Ministro,La Comisión Europea ha preparado una propuesta de Directiva para convertir el Registro Mercantil en plenamente electrónico. En la regulación propuesta, se insiste en que la publicidad del contenido del Registro debe hacerse a precio de coste. Es obvio que esas normas de la Directiva en vigor (art. 19) se […]
foto: JJBoseSe habla mucho en el pueblo porque el cerdo de Tsengali irrumpió en el jardín de Murri. Murri no parece enfadado, pero Tsengali está muy molesto por todos los chismes que el incidente ha ocasionado. Así que ha anunciado que dará un cerdo a Murri para terminar con las habladurías. Pero Murri le ha dicho que sería una tontería "matar un cerdo […]
Fresco Pompeya, Museo Arqueológico Nápoles.El Derecho de Sociedades incluye hoy – dice Andreas M. Fleckner, (Europäisches Gesellschaftsrecht, 2010) – la “constitución interna y externa” de las agrupaciones de individuos para la persecución de un fin común de acuerdo con el Derecho Privado. Incluye, por tanto, las sociedades “en sentido estricto” (las socieda […]
The Senate has approved with minor amendments the Antitrust Bill (the “Bill”) that had been approved by the Chamber of Deputies. The Senate introduced minor amendments to a few articles of the Bill, though none of them are substantial. The amended Bill will now be considered by the Chamber of Deputies and approval is likely... Continue reading The post Argen […]
On 19 April 2018, the Court of Justice (CJEU) issued an important ruling in the MEO case on the interpretation of Article 102(c) TFEU.[1] Article 102 prohibits, as incompatible with the EU’s internal market, any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position in so far as it may affect trade between Member... Continue reading The post The MEO ruling […]
Jakob Dewispelaere, http://competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/author/jakob-dewispelaere/, Array
After initiating sector inquiries on the banking and energy markets in the country the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition (the Commission) will investigate one more sector following a request from the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Culture to examine the competitive environment of the media market in Bulgaria […]
On April 11, 2018, the European Commission published a proposed new EU law as part of a package of consumer protection measures. The proposed new law would introduce the first Europe-wide consumer class action system, exposing companies in a broad range of industries to new risks with potentially huge financial implications. The proposed new law... Continue […]
Anne Robert, http://antitrustconnect.com/author/arobertsa/, Array
Over the past weekend, the Chinese legislature decided on a major restructuring of governmental agencies – with a profound impact on antitrust enforcement in the country. The restructuring plan was announced by the State Council – the equivalent of China’s cabinet – on 13 March 2018 and was approved by the legislature on 17 March.... Continue reading The pos […]
Adrian Emch, Hogan Lovells, http://antitrustconnect.com/author/emchadrian/
Living Essentials LLC, the maker of 5-hour Energy drinks, has faced two recent suits in California federal courts alleging violations of Robinson-Patman’s prohibitions on price and promotional discrimination. The suits should teach other suppliers, especially those that sell to Costco, that private RP enforcement is alive and well and still requires careful […]
Steven J. Cernak, http://antitrustconnect.com/author/stevencernak/, Array
October 29, 2017 On October 26, 2017, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) issued its revised draft Immunity Program for public comments. The Bureau is updating its Immunity Program to reflect recent legal and policy developments (see here). The Commissioner of Competition originally announced in late 2015 that the Bureau planned to update its Immunity Prog […]
October 21, 2017 On October 19, 2017, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued an important CASL (anti-spam law) related decision in Compliance and Enforcement Decision CRTC 2017-367 (CompuFinder). In this case, CompuFinder had launched a constitutional challenge of CASL, relating to a notice of violation it received in 2 […]
October 16, 2017 Following the Federal Government’s plan to legalize marijuana in Canada, provinces are now working through the logistics of pot legalization at a local level. In this regard, Ontario and Alberta recently announced their planned approaches to legalization this fall. My new Canadian Lawyer column discusses some of the key aspects of these […] […]
La IV Jornada de la Red Académica de Derecho de la Competencia (RADC) se celebrará en la Facultad de Derecho de la UVEG (Valencia) el próximo viernes 1 de Junio de 2018. Las propuestas de comunicaciones para la Jornada RADC pueden versar sobre cualquier tema en materia de Derecho de la Competencia. La solicitud de interés puede enviarse hasta el 1 de mayo p […]
La Comisión Europea ha aprobado el 26 de febrero de 2018 la creación de una empresa conjunta (joint venture) por parte de dos empresas de USA (Michelin North America, Inc. y Sumitomo Corporation of Americas). La nueva joint venture se dedicará a los negocios de distribución e instalación de neumáticos de sus empresas fundadoras. La operación ha sido examinad […]
The Faculty of Law of the University of Zaragoza is hosting, in the context of the Investment Law Initiative, a Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law & Competition Law’, which will take place on 27 & 28 September 2018, in Zaragoza, Spain. Details on the submission procedure and key dates can be found at the end of this call.The Colloquium on ‘I […]
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 […]
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, […]
More and more companies have monopoly power over workers’ wages. That’s killing the economy. By Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, and Glen Weyl April 6, 2018 Vox “For a time, economists believed that labor markets were . . . competitive. But that conventional wisdom was vaporized by a series of empirical studies that suggest that labor market power […]
“Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty” is quite an ambitious book. The authors, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, attempt to put forth a global theory that explains the cause of the differences in prosperity across countries. Granted, there is already substantial work on how many factors, such as low levels […]
The understanding of complex social problems requires interdisciplinary approaches. In a Project Syndicate article, Ricardo Hausmann describes recent research on how moral psychology can improve current economic models of consumer behavior. This branch of psychology can give better insights on how to predict our economic choices, since we carry out transacti […]
Defining a set of conduct as a single and continuous infringement (SCI) has significant consequences for parties to a cartel, in particular for their exposure in follow-on damages actions. It is no surprise, therefore, that the increased prevalence of damages actions in Europe has led to greater scrutiny of the Commission’s findings about SCI. In […]
As avid readers of social media, Politico, Chillin Competition and other places will know, I left the Commission at the end of February. On 4 April I joined Covington’s growing competition team in Brussels. I will continue to write on this blog – though experience has taught me to make no promises as to whether […]