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Dieter Gillis

KU Leuven

Legal Advisor

Dieter Gillis is Legal Advisor at Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media. Mr. Gillis (1981, Ghent) obtained his law degree at the University of Ghent in 2004. Afterwards, in 2005, he obtained the European Master in Law and Economics degree (EMLE) as a student of the University of Ghent, having studied in Hamburg (Universität Hamburg), Bologna (Universita di Bologna) and Aix-en-Provence (Université Aix-Marseille III). He joined the ICRI (Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT) team in October 2005 and was involved in four projects which are assigned by IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology).

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49321 Bulletin

Dieter Gillis The Belgian Competition Council allows a transaction between two cinema chains following previous merger remedies (Kinepolis / Multiscope)

29 October 2008 1604

Background information The Kinepolis Group NV (hereafter: Kinepolis), the largest cinema chain in Belgium, was formed after a merger in 1997 of Groep Bert and Groep Claeys. The merger had been approved by the Belgian Competition Council under a number of conditions. Those merger remedies were (...)

Dieter Gillis The Belgian Competition Council lifts a must offer obligation previously imposed to a TV operator as a merger remedy (Telenet Bidco / Canal+)

25 March 2008 4503

Background information The decision at hand of the Belgian Competition Council, concerning the request for the revision of the conditions imposed on NV Telenet Bidco (now NV Telenet) as a result of its acquisition of (the Flemish pay TV activities of) NV Canal + in 2003, is one of the elements (...)

Dieter Gillis The Brussels Court of Appeal largely supports the Belgian Telecom Regulator’s decision on retail fixed telephone access markets (Belgacom / IBPT)

1 June 2007 4911

Background The decision, which is under appeal, is adopted on 19 June 2006 by the Belgian post and telecom regulator, the BIPT/IBPT (Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications). Sector specific regulation for electronic communications, as harmonized on European level and (...)

Dieter Gillis The Belgian Competition Authority issues an opinion on the market for access and call origination on public mobile telephone networks (BIPT / IBPT)

26 February 2007 4137

Draft decision BIPT/IBPT On 26 January 2007 the Competition Council received from the BIPT/IBPT (Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications) a draft decision on market 15: access and call origination on public mobile telephone networks in order to receive advice within 30 (...)

Dieter Gillis The Belgian Competition Authority settles dispute on GSM gateways and voice call tariffs in cooperation with the telecommunications regulator (The Phone Company / Belgacom)

1 September 2006 7034

On September 1st, 2006 the Belgian Competition Council decided Belgacom Mobile (BMB) had to terminate voice calls coming form SIM cards in gateways of the Phone Company (TPC) on its mobile network against end user tariffs (possibly augmented with other costs such as the activation fee per cell (...)

Dieter Gillis The Belgian Competition Council dismisses request for interim measures against alleged margin squeeze from the telco incumbent on the market for telephone services provided at a fixed location for residential customers (Tele2 / Belgacom)

1 September 2006 9066

Relevant Facts Since January 2003 Tele2 (a Belgian subsidiary of the Swedish Tele2 AB) is active as a telecom operator on the Belgian fixed voice calls market. Tele2 however only owns a backbone network and consequently needs to use the local loop of Belgacom (the incumbent operator) in order (...)

Dieter Gillis The Brussels Court of Appeal upholds the Competition Authority’s decision holding that the exclusive joint selling of football television rights is not infringing Art. 81.1 EC (Jupiler League / Belgacom Skynet)

28 June 2006 6119

Relevant facts On 9 May 2005, the LBV, a joint selling body with the exclusive right to sell TV broadcasting rights of the Jupiler League on behalf of the participating football clubs, had awarded all the packages of rights to Belgacom Skynet. Telenet, Belgacom’s competitor on the Belgian (...)

Dieter Gillis, Peggy Valcke The Belgian Competition Authority concludes that the joint selling of media rights is in line with the decision practice of the EU Commission and is not infringing Art. 81(1) EC (Jupiler League / Belgacom Skynet)

29 July 2005 5088

On 29 July 2005 the Belgian Competition Council approved the award of TV broadcasting rights by the Liga Beroepsvoetbal (“LBV”) to Belgacom Skynet, since there was no infringement of Art. 81 EC. The Council has found that the broadcasting rights of matches of the Belgian first (and second) (...)

Dieter Gillis A Belgium Court of Appeal rules that quantity based price discrimination by beer supplier is not violating EC Reg. N° 1984/83 nor Art. 81.3 EC (Hermans and Daniel/Maloir)

11 February 2002 6859

In this case Ms. Hermans and Mr. Daniels appealed against the judgment held in first instance by the Commercial Court of Tongeren (handed down on 3 December 1999). The Commercial Court had found Ms. Hermans and Mr. Daniels liable for breach of contract and BF 510.000 (= € 12.642,57) damages were (...)