Stéphane is Case handler at European Commission. Before he was a Senior Associate at RBB Economics. Since 2006, he has advised clients on many aspects of competition policy, including horizontal and non-horizontal mergers, cartel, abuse of dominance and state aid, both before the European Commission and before several national competition authorities. His experience covers a wide range of sectors, among which online advertising, banking, telecommunication, tobacco, airlines, satellite navigation, electrical distribution, and steel. Stéphane holds a Master in European Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Master in Competition and Market Regulation from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Stéphane is a native French speaker, fluent in English and Dutch.
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Siemens / Dresser* In a nutshell The Commission was concerned that the acquisition of Dresser-Rand by Siemens would reduce the number of significant suppliers from 3 to 2 for rotating equipment in the oil and gas industry. The in-depth investigation showed that the parties’ activities in gas (...)
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On 4 April 2008, the Belgian Competition Council found the three biggest producers of Butyl Benzyl Phthalate (BBP) - i.e. Bayer, Ferro and Solutia Europe - and a distributor (Lonza) guilty of fixing price, market-sharing, limiting output and exchanging strategic information. BBP is a chemical (...)
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Introduction On 25 of January 2008, the Belgian Competition Council fined the Flemish Association of Bakeries (hereafter “VEBIC”) € 29,000 for the publication of a bread price index and a cost scheme in violation to article 2 paragraph 1 of the new WBEM . The Competition Council argues that by (...)
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Introduction On the 23rd of August 2007, the Brussels Court of Appeal accepted the request of UGC, Utopolis and FCB to revoke a decision by the Belgian Competition Council concerning the cinema chain Kinepolis. This latter decision lifted the restrictions imposed on Kinepolis in 1997 when the (...)
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This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the supplier-distributor relationships organised by Concurrences Review that has held on 22th October 2010 in Paris. The first contribution written by Mr.Joseph Vogel and Mr. Louis Vogel, is dedicated to the consideration of the (...)
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