Anti-Competitive Agreements: knowing your ‘object’ from your ‘appreciable’ Posted on February 11, 2013* In October 2012 Christopher Brown posted an interesting blog on AG Kokott’s opinion in Case C-226/11 Expedia. The full judgment was delivered on 13 December 2012 and it seems appropriate to look at whether the Court followed the same line; or whether there was an ‘appreciable’ difference. In brief the case was a preliminary ruling reference from the French Cour de cassation asking whether a National Competition Authority (NCA), or presumably a domestic court, could impose penalties in relation to an agreement or anticompetitive practice which fell within the terms of the European Commission’s de minimus Notice. The question arose in the context of proceedings brought by the Autorité de la
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The EU Court of Justice establishes that a national competition authority does not have to prove appreciable effect on competition for object agreements (Expedia)
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