Tag: Member States

Daniele Calisti, Luke Haasbeek, Aug 12, 2013 On June 11, 2013, the Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions, as well as...

Sebastian Peyer, Aug 12, 2013 The European Commission has recently proposed a Directive on rules governing actions for damages for the infringement of competition law...

Stefano Grassani, Aug 12, 2013 The European Commission believes that-given the procedural asymmetries between plaintiffs and defendants-public enforcement of antitrust law by national competition authorities...

Oana Stefan, Jul 15, 2013 Instruments deprived of legally binding force according to Article 288 TFEU—notices, guidelines, communications, etc.—have been issued in EU competition law...

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,...

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...

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...

Nelson Jung, Alex Nourry, Jun 19, 2012 In our 2006 article, we highlighted an emerging wave of interventionism by EU Member States that manifested itself...

Nelson Jung, Alex Nourry, Jun 19, 2012 This article examines the compatibility of special rights and other state measures with the EC’s single market objectives...

Ingrid Breit, Jeroen Capiau, Andrew Essilfie, Feb 22, 2012 Any effort by a company to ensure compliance with EU competition rules is important. But what...