Jan Peter van der Veer is a Partner at RBB Economics who has worked in economic consultancy since the year 2000. He is based in Brussels and also works in the firm’s office in The Hague. Jan Peter holds an MA in Business Economics from Tilburg University and an MA in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds, both with distinction. He also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law from King’s College in London. He has published widely on competition policy issues, covering topics such as empirical techniques in mergers, methods to estimate pass-on, abuse of dominance, and network effects in the internet area. Jan Peter van der Veer is a Partner at RBB Economics who has worked in economic consultancy since the year 2000. He is based in Brussels and also works in the firm’s office in The Hague. Jan Peter holds an MA in Business Economics from Tilburg University and an MA in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds, both with distinction. He also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law from King’s College in London. He has published widely on competition policy issues, covering topics such as empirical techniques in mergers, methods to estimate pass-on, abuse of dominance, and network effects in the internet area. Jan Peter’s experience covers a wide range of industries, including online search and online advertising, fast moving consumer goods, telecommunications, petrol retailing, chemicals, software, transport, electricity, and postal services.
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RPM and strong inter-brand competition – Tooltechnic coming to Europe?* On 20 April 2015, the Dutch competition authority ACM published Guidelines on its enforcement priorities with respect to vertical restraints. The document contains a number of case studies intended to illustrate the (...)
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Valuing Sustainability? The ACM’s analysis of “Chicken for Tomorrow” under Art. 101(3)* On 26 January 2015, the Dutch competition authority announced its decision that industry-wide initiatives for the “Chicken for Tomorrow” in the Netherlands restrict competition. The ACM reached this (...)
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Art 101(3) and sustainability – new developments in the Netherlands* On 6 May, the Dutch government issued a set of policy directions (“Directions”) to the Dutch competition authority (“ACM”) concerning the application of the Dutch equivalent of Article 101(3) TFEU in respect to (...)
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Actions for damages – a Practical Guide to the quantification of harm* Together with the publication of its proposed legislation to facilitate damage claims, the Commission has published a Practical Guide to the quantification of harm arising from infringements of the competition rules. The (...)
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Entering uncharted territory: the Commission’s thinking on territorial supply constraints* On 31 January 2013, the European Commission (DG Internal Market) published a Green Paper on unfair trading practices in the business-to-business food and non-food supply chain in Europe. One of the (...)
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H3G/Orange Austria – Commission starts using UPP* On 24 July, the Commission published the non-confidential version of the decision in the Hutchison 3G Austria/Orange Austria case. The case, cleared subject to commitments following a Phase II investigation, represents a significant (...)
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Introduction In October 2012, the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) presented new pricing Guidelines for Russian companies. The document discusses various benchmarks for “fair” or “economically justified” prices that can be charged to domestic customers. Although the (...)
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The Commission’s Best Practices for the Submission of Economic Evidence: Improved, but still lacking in key areas* On 17 October, the Commission published a revised version of its Best Practices for the submission of economic evidence and data collection in competition cases (“BP”). The (...)
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Unilever/Sara Lee – The return of merger simulation?* In late January 2012, the Commission finally published the non-confidential version of its decision in Unilever/Sara Lee Body Care (adopted in November 2010). The decision, reached after a Phase II investigation, is notable because it (...)
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Introduction In June 2010 the French dairy producer Danone announced plans to purchase a stake of 58% in the Russian dairy company Unimilk. The proposed € 1.5 bln merger would make Danone-Unimilk the leader for dairy products in the CIS area, with a 21% share of the Russian dairy market. (...)
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BACKGROUND In 2008 the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation found four major Russian vertically integrated oil companies (TNK-BP, Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom Neft) guilty of abusing a collective dominant position on the wholesale Russian market for motor fuel products (...)
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On 31 May 2005, the Court of Rotterdam in the Netherlands annulled a decision by the Nederlandse Mededingingsautoriteit (NMa), the Dutch competition authority, concerning the proposed merger between electricity companies Nuon and Reliant . After a detailed inquiry, the NMa had cleared the (...)
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This first roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust”, Paris, 22th of February 2013, was dedicated to « Opening competition in protected sectors: Should new entrants be protected?». Bernard Amory and Laurent de Muyter, authors of the first contribution, provide some thoughts (...)
