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Critical Loss: Not Implementing the Hypothetical Monopolist Test!
Reply to Coate & Fischer’s response to the author’s original article in which he argues that a style of critical loss calculation, termed “CLAD”, does not properly implement the hypothetical monopolist test for market delineation and is often highly misleading.
Will There Be Article 82 Guidelines & Implications
Will There Be Guidelines on Article 82 of the EC Treaty?
Since reforms of the European competition system began in the 1990s, practitioners have insisted on the European Commission giving guidelines on how to interpret one of the most obscure provisions of the EC Treaty: the prohibition of abuses of dominant positions. Today, the debate on the interpretation of dominant abuses continues and will hopefully result in guidelines.
Will There Be Article 82 Guidelines and What Are the Implications?
The question that is the title of this article is very topical as the five-year anniversary of the initiation of the Commission’s June 2003 internal policy review of Article 82 EC approaches. The answer to the question is currently unknown at least to this author. This short contribution does not predict the future, but presents an educated guess.
The Commission on Velvet: Why it will probably not issue Article 82 guidelines any time soon
In spite of the silence of the Commission, a lot has happened on the Article 82 front since June 2006. This paper discusses these developments and weighs the pros and cons of releasing guidelines.
GCP Authorities: SA Competition Commission
Simon Roberts, Apr 23, 2008
South African Competition Policy in 2008: Key Priorities of the Competition Commission
In its ninth year of operation, the main priorities of the South African Competition Commission reflect a maturing of the competition regime, as well as a growing recognition of the importance of competitive rivalry in the development of the South African economy.
