Tag: Guidelines
The New EU Competition Rules for the Assessment of Horizontal Agreements
Paul Lugard, Feb 18, 2011
Following a consultation process of more than two years, the European Commission has now adopted its Guidelines on the applicability...
Vertical Agreements: New Competition Rules for the Next Decade
Magdalena Brenning-Louko, Andrei Gurin, Luc Peeperkorn, Katja Viertiö, Jan 06, 2011
On 20 April 2010 the Commission adopted a new Block Exemption Regulation applicable to...
Upward Pricing Pressure and Critical Loss Analysis: Response
Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro, Jan 07, 2011
As members of the Department of Justice and Federal Trace Commission working group that is reviewing the Horizontal...
Information Exchanges Among Competitors: The Commission Takes a New Look
Andreas Reindl, Sep 15, 2010
The European Commission's draft guidelines on horizontal agreements (the "Draft Guidelines") feature as one of its main innovations a new...
Canada’s Draft Service Standards for Merger Review: Plus Change, Plus...
Sandy Walker, Aug 31, 2010
Canada's merger review process has always suffered from schizophrenia. Unlike in the EU and United States, the timeline for the...
New Kids on the Block: Retailer-driven Vertical Practices and the New...
Ioannis Lianos, Jul 07, 2010
By integrating more fully the retailer power story, the new vertical restraints guidelines and block exemption regulation provide for a...
Internet Sales and the New EU Rules on Vertical Restraints
Filippo Amato, Jun 30, 2010
Various questions arise with regard to the type of internet sales restrictions that a supplier can impose upon its distributors....
Vertical Agreements: New Competition Rules for the Next Decade
Magdalena Brenning-Louko, Andrei Gurin, Luc Peeperkorn, Katja Vierti, Jun 14, 2010
On 20 April 2010 the Commission adopted a new Block Exemption Regulation applicable to...
Due Process Before the Commission of the European Union? Some Reflections...
Bo Vesterdorf, Apr 16, 2010
In this comment, I shall, however, not discuss the above mentioned issues in any more detail but shall deal with...
Critical Loss v. Diversion Analysis: Another Attempt at Consensus
Malcolm Coate, Joseph Simons, Apr 16, 2010
In our paper Critical Loss vs. Diversion Analysis: Clearing up the Confusion, we tried to bridge the gap...
