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24 Mar 2020

The EU Commission prolongs the validity of block exemption for liner shipping consortia

Antitrust: Commission prolongs the validity of block exemption for liner shipping consortia* The European Commission has prolonged for another four years the regulation outlining the conditions under which liner shipping consortia can provide joint services without infringing EU antitrust (...)

11 Mar 2020

Richard Whish QC (Hon) Liber Amicorum Article 102 TFEU and Efficiency Pleas: A “Fact-Check”

Massimiliano Kadar

89 Article 102 TFEU and Efficiency Pleas: A “Fact-Check” M assi Miliano K adar * Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission Abstract The European Commission's (the Commission's) approach on efficiencies in the assessment of unilateral conduct has often been subject to criticism (...)

1 Feb 2020

Should digital antitrust be ordo-liberal?

Alexandre de Streel • N° 1-2020 • pp. 2-4

This foreword analyses how the main characteristics of the digital economy should shape the objectives, the theories of harm, the process and the remedies of contemporary competition policy. It suggests that the ordo-liberalism offers a normative framework adapted to those characteristics of (...)

1 Feb 2020

Digital & competition

Paul Belleflamme, Francisco Costa Cabral, Tim Cowen, Daniel Fasquelle, Paula Forteza, Inge Graef, Max Huffman, Frédéric Marty, Jacques Moscianese, Gabriella Muscolo, Martin Peitz, Sebastien Soriano, Thierry Warin, Ramsi Woodcock • N° 1-2020

This series of articles highlights the existing debate about the role of competition policy in the digital economy. Each contribution addresses the subject from a different perspective. The first two discuss non-price strategies practiced by monopoly digital platforms and remedies that can be (...)

10 Jan 2020

The US DOJ and FTC announce new draft vertical merger guidelines

Jeffrey H. Perry, Sarah Bartels • January 2020

DOJ and FTC Announce New Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines* On January 10, 2020, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (together, the “Agencies”) released Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines (the “Draft Guidelines”) that are intended to outline the (...)

12 Dec 2019

The US DoJ challenges a trade association rule for college admission (NACAC)

Margaret A. Ward, Molly Wilkens • December 2019

In December 2019, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") settled charges that certain National Association for College Admission Counseling ("NACAC") rules governing college admissions were anticompetitive under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. NACAC is a trade association for (...)

5 déc. 2019

Politique de concurrence : Le Gouvernement français amende les dispositions de l’avant-projet de loi sur l’audiovisuel anticipant la transposition de mesures de la directive ECN+ à la suite d’un avis du Conseil d’État (Communication audiovisuelle et souveraineté culturelle à l’ère numérique)

Pascal Cardonnel, Julie Bousin • N° 1-2020 • pp. 145-148

En septembre 2018, l’Assemblée nationale avait adopté un amendement présenté par le gouvernement qui venait insérer un article 71 bis dans le projet de loi relatif à la croissance et à la transformation des entreprises (“loi PACTE”). Bref rappel de l’historique de ce projet de loi L’article 71 bis du (...)

1 Nov 2019

Antitrust risk in financial services: Lessons from recent regulatory developments in the EU, UK and beyond

Nicole Kar, Josh Buckland • N° 4-2019

Antitrust authorities in the EU, UK and elsewhere have recently overseen a flurry of activity in the financial services sector. This is no coincidence: bolstered by reforms implemented following the Global Financial Crisis of the late 2000s, and seemingly spurred on by the wider emergence of (...)

1 Nov 2019

Reactionary Antitrust

John M. Newman • N° 4-2019 • pp. 66-72

Article to be published in Herbert Hovenkamp Liber Amicorum, N. Charbit and al. (eds.), Concurrences, 2020. The antitrust enterprise is undergoing a renaissance. New voices have emerged. Issues long considered settled have been opened for re-examination. Lively debate has prompted antitrust (...)

1 Nov 2019

Brexit: Balancing UK and EU merger control

Joel Bamford, Aiste Slezeviciute • N° 4-2019

The merger control regime in the United Kingdom (UK) and at the European level is increasingly under the spotlight. In the UK, a key factor is the UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit), where, as a consequence, the UK is likely to lose the benefit of the “one-stop shop” under the EU Merger (...)

1 Nov 2019

Competition policy and gender

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Chris Pike • N° 4-2019

This paper calls attention to the opportunity for competition authorities to contribute to the fight for gender equality. We also argue that adopting a gender lens can be helpful in achieving the efficiency-based objectives of competition authorities. We conclude by providing a menu of options (...)

23 Oct 2019

The South African Competition Appeal Court dismisses an appeal following the decision of the Competition Tribunal for an abuse of dominance in contravention of the Competition Act (Computicket)

Charl van der Merwe • October 2019

SOUTH AFRICA: COMPETITION APPEAL COURT CONFIRMS TRIBUNAL FINDING IN COMPUTICKET ABUSE OF DOMINANCE CASE* The South African Competition Appeal Court (CAC) on 23 October 2019 dismissed an appeal by Computicket (Pty) Ltd. (Computicket), following the decision of the Competition Tribunal (...)

26 sept. 2019

Presse : Le Sénat adopte le projet de loi de modernisation de la presse prévoyant de confier à l’Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes la régulation de la distribution de la presse (Modernisation de la presse)

Francesco Martucci • N° 4-2019 • pp. 174-176

Le 26 septembre 2019, le Sénat a adopté le projet de loi relatif à la modernisation de la distribution de la presse. Le titre III du projet de loi est consacré à la régulation de la distribution de la presse et prévoit de confier cette régulation à l’Autorité de régulation des communications (...)

1 Sep 2019

Unfair trading practices in the food supply chain

Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Ronny Gjendemsjø, Peter Carstensen, Johan Hedelin, Antonio Miño López • N° 3-2019

This On-Topic issue is dedicated to the regulation of unfair trading practices in the food supply chain and brings along selected contributions on different aspects on this highly debated and timely topic. These articles show the complexity in finding a good balance between different policy (...)

1 Sep 2019

Brazil: Compliance programs and abuse of dominance practices under Brazilian competition law – A roadmap for compliance monitors

Victor Oliveira Fernandes • N° 3-2019 • pp. 216-227

The Brazilian antitrust authority (Portuguese acronym CADE) has been following a worldwide trend in encouraging the adoption of competition law compliance programs. Nevertheless, one can see an apparent policy gap in the current optimal incentives for compliance program adoption in antitrust (...)

1^er sept. 2019

Santé et droit de la concurrence

Frédérique Berrod, Luc Besançon, Philippe Besset, François Blanchecotte, Gilles Bonnefond, Céline Devienne, Martial Dubonnet, Luis Godinho, Thomas Piquereau • N° 3-2019 • pp. 22-40

Cette série d’articles analyse la politique de concurrence française dans le secteur de la santé, notamment l’avis délivré par l’Autorité de la concurrence en avril 2019 sur les secteurs de la distribution du médicament et de la biologie médicale. Chaque article traite le sujet avec une perspective (...)

1^er sept. 2019

La politique de la concurrence et les intérêts stratégiques de l’Union européenne

Anne Perrot, Victor Blonde • N° 3-2019 • pp. 2-4

A la demande du Ministre de l’économie et des finances, l’Inspection générale des finances et le Conseil général de l’économie ont rendu un rapport sur les réformes qui pourraient rendre la politique de concurrence européenne plus efficace, dans la perspective de tracer l’agenda de la future Commission (...)

1 Sep 2019

Making Markets Work for Africa. Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eleanor M. FOX and Mor BAKHOUM

Pradeep S. Mehta • N° 3-2019 • p. 274

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

1^er sept. 2019

L’innovation prédatrice en droit de la concurrence, Thibault SCHREPEL, préface de Philippe AGHION

Arnaud Fournier • N° 3-2019 • pp. 276-278

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

18 juil. 2019

Abus d’éviction : La Commission européenne sanctionne l’opérateur dominant sur le marché des puces électroniques pour la norme 3G pour une stratégie de prix prédateurs (Qualcomm)

Frédéric Marty • N° 4-2019 • pp. 98-99

La Commission européenne a sanctionné Qualcomm pour abus d’éviction sur le marché des circuits intégrés. La stratégie d’éviction anticoncurrentielle mise en œuvre reposait, selon la Commission, sur une stratégie de prix prédateurs. Cette décision, assortie d’une sanction de 242 millions d’euros, n’est pour (...)

18 Jul 2019

Commitments: The European Commission approves a telecoms merger with commitments to address unilateral horizontal effects without dominance (so-called “gap” case) (Vodafone / Liberty Global)

Simon Vande Walle • N° 1-2020

Background The good old cable network. Originally rolled out to transmit TV channels to households in the 80s, it has become the pipe through which millions of Europeans access fast internet or “broadband”. Little wonder that cable networks are eagerly coveted by telecom companies and, when they (...)

15 juil. 2019

Politique de concurrence : La Commission européenne publie son rapport annuel sur la politique de concurrence pour 2018

Alain Ronzano • N° 4-2019

Le 15 juillet 2019, la Commission européenne a mis en ligne le rapport annuel sur la politique de concurrence pour 2018. Pour l’heure, pas d’avant-propos de la commissaire Vestager, ni de communiqué de presse. Tout juste un tweet… Comme les années passées, la livraison 2019 se présente sous la forme (...)

31 May 2019

The Global Antitrust Economics Conference

Luis Cabral, Lawrence J. White, Noah Joshua Phillips, Roger Noll, Andrew Zimbalist, Brad Humphreys, Rodney Fort, Michael D. Hausfeld, James A. Keyte, Gail Levine, Timothy J. Brennan, Gregory Rosston, Dennis W. Carlton, John D. Harkrider, Cristina Caffarra, Katja Seim, Paul Csiszar, David Gilo, George A. Rozanski, Ingrid Vandenborre, Jack E. Pace, Robert Willig, Samantha Knox, Martin d’Halluin, David A. Higbee, Boris Bershteyn, Harry First, Hal Varian

Annual Concurrences conference at NYU Stern School of Business with the support of Axinn, Bates White, CRA, Hausfeld, Qualcomm, Shearman & Sterling, Skadden, White & Case (Panel Sponsors) and MLex (Media Sponsor).

16 mai 2019

Contrôle constitutionnel : Le Conseil constitutionnel censure partiellement la loi PACTE en ce qui concerne les dispositions visant la mise en œuvre des règles de concurrence (Loi PACTE)

Christophe Lemaire, Julie Bousin • N° 3-2019 • pp. 159-160

La loi no 2019-486 du 22 mai 2019 relative à la croissance et la transformation des entreprises a été publiée au Journal officiel du 23 mai 2019 (ci-après la “loi PACTE”). Cette publication fait suite à la décision du Conseil constitutionnel du 16 mai 2019 (déc. no 2019-781 DC), qui a déclaré certains (...)

1 May 2019

Joseph STIGLITZ (Columbia University): Competition policy, the need for a more nuanced view

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Eleanor M. Fox • N° 2-2019 • pp. 16-17

Interview conducted by Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, NYU Law, New York Professor Stiglitz, you have given a great deal of thought to competition policies in developing countries and you have been very important in helping many of them frame their policy (...)

20 mars 2019

Clause d’exclusivité : La Commission européenne sanctionne l’opérateur dominant des marchés de la publicité en ligne et des recherches en ligne pour un abus de position dominante passant par l’imposition de clauses contractuelles restrictives (Google AdSense)

Frédéric Marty • N° 2-2019 • pp. 76-77

Troisième décision en trois ans dans l’affaire Google Search (affaire 39740) qui était initialement promise à une décision d’engagements et qui a finalement donné lieu à trois amendes records pour des abus de position dominante. La décision Shopping en juin 2017 s’était traduite par une amende de 2,42 (...)

1 Feb 2019

Peru: Competition law enforcement - Reaching maturity

Andres Calderon Lopez • N° 1-2019 • pp. 228-233

This article describes the most recent changes and trends in Peru’s competition law enforcement. After presenting an overview of Peru’s competition law and policy, the author depicts the evolution of Indecopi (Peru’s competition authority) in its fight against horizontal collusion and shows (...)

1 Feb 2019

Turkey: Innovation-based analysis of mergers

Gönenç Gürkaynak, Naz Topaloglu • N° 1-2019

Innovation can either be viewed by the competition authorities as a parameter that should be protected from the potential negative effects of a transaction, or it can be utilized by the merging parties as part of a defense argument to set off against or abate the anti-competitive concerns (...)

1 Feb 2019

Qing LI (SAMR): The implementation of fair competition review system in China

Qing Li, Wei Tan • N° 1-2019

Interview conducted by Dr. Wei Tan, Managing Director, Mingde Economic Research Inc., Washington, D.C. Can you explain the reason why the Chinese government wants to establish a fair competition review system? The Fair Competition Review Mechanism (FCRM) is a significant decision for Chinese (...)

1 Feb 2019

A Framework for European Competition Law. Co-ordinated Diversity, Christophe TOWNLEY

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 1-2019 • p. 246

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

1 Jan 2019

Frédéric Jenny Liber Amicorum PART II: Economics and Antitrust
Merger Efficiencies and Competition Policy

107 PART II Economics and Antitrust Frédéric Jenny | Standing Up for Convergence and Relevance in Antitrust - Liber Amicorum -Volume I 109 Merger Efficiencies and Competition Policy F. M. S cherer * Harvard University Abstract This paper, revised in honor of Frédéric Jenny from an OECD (...)

28 Nov 2018

The OECD holds a roundtable on personalised pricing in the digital era

OECD • November 2018

As data analytics and pricing algorithms become common business practice in the digital era, there are growing concerns about the possibility that companies use such tools to engage in personalised pricing, a form of price discrimination that involves charging different prices to consumers (...)

26 Nov 2018

The OECD holds a roundtable on designing the publicly funded healthcare markets

OECD • November 2018

Many people depend on publicly funded healthcare to lead a productive, fulfilling, and satisfying life. While there is little guidance on where, or how, to introduce choice and competition in healthcare services, there has nevertheless been a steady movement towards the greater use of market (...)

9 nov. 2018

Nouvelle Calédonie : L’Autorité de la concurrence de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, consultée pour avis sur la réglementation qui fonde le protectionnisme économique calédonien, cherche à concilier les principes de libre concurrence qu’elle est chargée d’appliquer et la protection de l’industrie locale voulue par les pouvoirs publics dans une optique de plus grande efficacité économique et de baisse des prix (Modernisation de la règlementation relative aux protections de marché en Nouvelle-Calédonie ; Avant-projet de loi du pays portant régulation du marché et diverses dispositions d’ordre économique et fiscal)

Loïc Rochas • N° 1-2019 • pp. 222-226

L’Autorité de la concurrence de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (“l’ACNC”) mise en place le 2 mars 2018 a rapidement été amenée à constater des dysfonctionnements concurrentiels sur certains marchés liés à des mesures protectionnistes (“protections de marché”) adoptées par les pouvoirs publics calédoniens au profit (...)

1^er nov. 2018

Droit de la concurrence et droit de la compliance

Marie-Anne Frison-Roche • N° 4-2018 • pp. 1-4

Le droit de la compliance est une branche du droit nouvelle, encore en construction. L’on peut en avoir une “définition restreinte”, consistant à la concevoir comme l’obligation qu’ont les entreprises de donner à voir qu’elles se conforment en permanence et d’une façon active au Droit. L’on peut en (...)

27 Sep 2018

Regulation of digital platforms: Round-table and dinner with Jean Tirole, Isabelle de Silva, Nils Wahl and Delphine Gény-Stephann

Antoine Chapsal, Antoine Winckler, Delphine Gény-Stephann, Isabelle de Silva, Jean Tirole, Nils Wahl, Pierre Cremieux

Round table and dinner organised by Concurrences Review, Analysis Group and Cleary Gottlieb.

27 Sep 2018

Merger remedies and competition law: An overview of recent EU case law and international policy developments

Thomas Hoehn • Merger Remedies

Merger control remains an active area of antitrust enforcement in Europe as well as other parts of the world. The global merger boom of the last few years continues to raise significant challenges for enforcers, not least through the recent mega-mergers in the pharmaceuticals, agrochemical and (...)

1 Sep 2018

Turkey: Dynamic efficiency considerations in merger control analyses

Çağlagül Koz, Gönenç Gürkaynak, Naz Topaloglu • N° 3-2018

The final destination and the ultimate goal that we put forth in our article is that the Turkish Competition Board should include innovation considerations in its merger control analyses by employing dynamic tools. Accordingly, we contend that the Turkish Competition Board should “set its course (...)

1 Sep 2018

Riccardo FALCONI (Uber): Has digital economy disrupted competition law?

Riccardo Falconi, David Tayar, Katrin Schallenberg • N° 3-2018

Interview conducted by Katrin Schallenberg, Partner, Clifford Chance and David Tayar, Partner, Clifford Chance. Digital actors and platforms have been disrupting markets by bringing together innovation and scalability to unprecedented levels and by unlocking efficiencies in various sectors. (...)

1 Sep 2018

A Critical Account of Article 106(2) TFEU. Government Failure in Public Service Provision, Jarleth M. BURKE

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 3-2018 • pp. 214-215

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

1^er sept. 2018

Populisme et concurrence

Frédéric Jenny, Jérôme Philippe • N° 3-2018

A l’heure où les autorités de concurrence font face à des remises en cause de nature populiste, il peut être remarqué qu’elles-mêmes ont en partie adopté une approche populiste en abandonnant le test du ’Bien-être’, qui constituait le fondement de leur légitimité, au profit du test du seul surplus du (...)

1 Sep 2018

Online and Offline Retailer Competition: New challenges for Competition Economists and Practitioners

Aaron Fix, Antoine Chapsal, Claudio Calcagno, Emily Cotton, Joshua White, Nikita Piankov • N° 3-2018

In this On-Topic we explore a number of competition issues that arise at the intersection of online and offline retail distribution. We first provide a brief overview of the effects of online distribution and the associated potential challenges for competition policy. In the first paper, we (...)

20 Aug 2018

The Italian Competition Authority unconditionally approves the creation of a cooperative banking group (Cassa Centrale Bancaria)

Michele Giannino • August 2018

Merger, notification, autohorisation, banking, market definition, : clearance Phase (I) merger, economic efficiency, high market shares, relevant market, By a recent decision the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) has unconditionally approved the creation of a cooperative banking group. The (...)

18 Jul 2018

The EU Commission fines a multinational technology company for abuse of dominant position in the smartphone operating system sector (Google Android)

Fiona Carlin, Grant Murray • July 2018

On 18 July 2018 the European Commission imposed a record fine of €4.34 billion on Google. In such an innovative and competitive industry, a decision and fine on this scale arguably sends the wrong message. This update questions whether intervention risks reducing innovation, raising prices and (...)

12 Jun 2018

The US District Court for the District of Columbia rejects the DoJ’s challenge to a vertical merger between an entertainment company and a distribution company (AT&T / Time Warner)

Kathryn M. Fenton, Michael H. Knight, Bruce McDonald, Ryan C. Thomas, Thomas D. York • June 2018

Court Rejects DOJ Antitrust Challenge to AT&T/Time Warner* After eighteen months of investigation and litigation, a federal district court has rejected the Justice Department’s challenge to AT&T’s $108 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc. Although the government could appeal, the (...)

7 Jun 2018

The Luxembourg Competition Authority allows a price-fixing agreement between competitors as it provides efficiency gains in the taxi market (Webtaxi)

Louis Hollanders de Ouderaen, Philippe-Emmanuel Partsch, Thomas Evans • June 2018

In June 2018, the Luxembourg Competition Council published a decision regarding a cooperation between competitors involving price fixing, one of the most manifest and serious restrictions of competition. In the decision “Webtaxi”, the Competition Council found that a taxi reservation centre (...)

6 Jun 2018

The OECD holds a roundtable on considering non-price effects in merger control

OECD • June 2018

1. Introduction 1. When firms compete, they make a range of decisions about the characteristics of their products. Consumers make purchasing decisions based on at least some of these characteristics, which determine the value they obtain from the product. Price is one such characteristic, but (...)

5 Jun 2018

The OECD holds a roundtable on designing and testing effective consumer-facing remedies

OECD • June 2018

1. Introduction 1. The focus of the roundtable on effective consumer facing remedies is on how competition authorities and regulators can intervene in markets to make the demand-side work well, delivering benefits for consumers. It builds on work carried out by (...)

28 May 2018

Market concentration in the us and europe too many mergers ?

Adrien Giraud, David Foster, Szabolcs Lorincz

Law & Economics workshop organised by Concurrences Review in partnership with Latham & Watkins and Frontier Economics.

1 May 2018

The Normative Foundations of European Competition Law. Assessing the Goals of Antitrust through the Lens of Legal Philosophy, Oles ANDRIYCHUK

Julie Rondu • N° 2-2018 • pp. 241-242

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

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