Tag: European Commission

Seth Sacher, Jul 28, 2013 In a recent working paper, Damien Geradin and Caio Marioda Silva Pereira Neto (hereafter GN) argue that the Brazilian competition...

Damien Geradin, Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto, Jul 28, 2013 his short paper summarizes the main findings of a comprehensive study the authors conducted...

Ruchit Patel, Paul Stuart, Jul 15, 2013 In February 2007, the European Commission (the "Commission") adopted an infringement decision finding that a number of manufacturers...

Cormac Little, Jul 15, 2013 A recent court decision has significantly narrowed the application of the de minimis principle under EU competition rules. In late 2012,...

Mariana Tavares, Jun 28, 2013 In 2012 a new Portuguese competition act (Law 19/2012) was enacted and entered into force introducing changes both to the...

Andreas Bardong, Jun 28, 2013 The mantra of international merger control has been cooperation, convergence, and comity. Within the European Union, coherence is another widely...

Liza Bellulo, Jun 28, 2013 The Autorité de la concurrence has been entrusted with an advisory role for 26 years, but since 2008 this function...

Alessandra Tonazzi, Jun 28, 2013 In a general report issued at the beginning of October 2012, the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA") proposed to introduce some...

Francesco Russo, Claudio Tesauro, Jun 28, 2013 Competition law enforcement in the European Union is based on a system of parallel competences in which the...

Christian Ahlborn, Christoph Barth, Jun 17, 2013 Long before the era of e-commerce, girls would be let into nightclubs for free (or get bonus drinks)...