Competition journals: Jan. - March 2010

1. General - Scope of application

The limits of Antitrust and Chicago School tradition, G. L. Priest (Journal of Competition Law & Economics, March 2010, Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 1)

The most recent issue of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics is a special issue, entitled The Limits of Antitrust revisited, devoted entirely to studies, in-depth studies and commentaries based on the article The Limits of Antitrust by Professor (now Judge) Frank H Easterbrook, published in the Texas Law Review (1984, Vol. 63, Issue 1, p. 1). Other articles include The limits to simplifying the application of U.S. antitrust law, R. S. Markovits (p. 51) and Competition in antitrust regulation: law beyond limits, R. A. Cass (p. 119).

Sports, antitrust enforcement and collective bargaining,L. M. Kahn (Antitrust Bulletin, Winter 2009, Vol. 54, No. 4, p. 857).

This issue of the Antitrust Bulletin is entirely dedicated to the theme Antitrust in the sports industry. The article Collusive monopsony and antitrust damages, C. Depasquale (p. 907) will be of particular interest, as will, for American university sports enthusiasts, The law and economics of the NCAA’s claim to monopoly rights, J. L. Harrison & C. C. Harrison (p. 923).

Competition and Insolvency Law,J.-P. Kovar (RLDA Jan. 2010, No. 45, p. 62)

Is There a Culture of Competition, L.-M. Augagneur (RRJ 2009-4, p. 1879)

La concurrence par les mérites, G. Decocq (Contracts, conc., consom avr. 2010, Repère, 4, p. 1)

The relative merits of Courts and Agencies in competition law - institutional design: Administrative modes; judicial models; and mixed models,V. J. G. Power (European Competition Journal, Apr. 2010, Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 91)

Towards a single market for medicinal products: acquis and new Community guidelines,N. De Grav-Valdeyron (Cah. dr. eur. 3-4/2009, p. 335)

Online gaming: the assessments of Advocate General Bot, J.-M. Thouvenin (RMCUE, No 536, March 2010, p. 143)

D’une réforme à l’autre : les mutations du droit de l’entreprise,Actes du colloque de La Rochelle des 5 et 6 juin 2009 (RLDA fév. 2010, n° 46, p. 49-90)

Glaxosmith" judgment: contractual clauses relating to parallel trade,B. Bär-Bouyssiere (EDJ, No. 166, p. 46).

Competition policy and entrepreneurship development: some international comparisons,M.T. Schaper, A. Clear & G. Baker (ECLR, Jun. 2010, Vol. 31, Issue 6, p. 226).

Intellectual property, competition and regulation - limits of protection and limits of control,H. Ullrich (RIDE, 4/2009, p. 399)

Dialectical antitrust: an alternative insight into the methodology of the EC competition law analysis in a period of economic downturn,O. Andriychuk (ECLR, Apr. 2010, Vol. 31, Issue 4, p. 155)

Activity of the Community Courts in competition law (May-June 2009) and (July 2009), P. Arhel(Petites affiches, 31 Dec. 2009, No 261, p. 6, and Petites affiches, 8 Feb. 2010, No 27, p. 5)

Activity of the Competition Council: the report, P. Arhel(Petites affiches, 26 Jan. 2010, No. 18, p. 3)

Chronique de jurisprudence communautaire : articles 81 et 82 du traité CE - année 2008, G. Dezobry (RMCUE, n° 534, Jan. 2010, p. 49)

Application du droit communautaire par la Cour de cassation (juillet 2008- juin 2009),L. azoulai et alii (Europe, déc. 2009 , Chron., 2, p. 4).

Chronique Concurrence,L. Idot (Europe, Dec. 2009, comm. 461-463, p. 28; Jan. 2010, comm. 34-36, p. 31; Feb. 2010, comm. 81-83, p. 29; Mar. 2010, comm. 124-125, p. 29)

Chronique Concurrence - Articles 81 and 82 EC (1 January 2008 - 30 June 2009),J.-B. Blaise and L. Idot (RTD eur. Oct.-Dec. 2009, No 4, p. 773)

Chronique Concurrence,M. Bazex G. Decocq, M. Malaurie-Vignal and D. Bosco (Contracts, conc., consom March 2010, comm. 74-83, p. 25; Apr. 2010 comm. 99-107, p. 23)

Chronique de droit économique,C. Anadon (RLDA Feb. 2010, 46, no. 2718 to 2721, p. 38; Mar. 2010, 47, no. 2774 to 2778, p. 42, Apr. 2010, 48, no. 2828 to 2830, p. 45)

Competition Chronicle (RJDA, Feb. 2010, p. 175; Mar. 2010, p. 296; Apr. 2010, p. 424)

Chronique de jurisprudence communautaire,M. Aubert, E. Broussy and F. Donnat, (AJDA,15 Feb. 2010, n° 5, p. 248)

Current developments in competition law and regulation, S. Nicinski, E. Glaser and P-A. Jeanneney, (AJDA,29 March 2010, No. 11, p. 596)

2. Agreements

2.1. General

The modernisation of EU anti-cartel enforcement: will the Commission grasp the opportunity?,A. Riley (ECLR, May 2010, Vol. 31, Issue 5, p. 191).

Output-expanding collusion in the presence of a competitive fringe,J-P. Montero & J. I. Guzman (The Journal of Industrial Economics, March 2010, Vol. LVIII, N° 1, p. 106)

Exchange of information and collusion - Do consumers switching costs matter, T. Björkroth (European Competition Journal, Apr. 2010, Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 179).

Le clair-obscur de l’obligation d’exclusivité: de quelques singularités dans l’appréciation de l’autorité de la concurrence, C. Grynfogel & J. Marthan (RJDA, Jan. 2010, 1/10, p. 3)

2.2. Distribution

Competitive resale price maintenance in the absence of free riding, B. Klein (Antitrust Law Journal, 2009, Vol. 76, Issue 2, p. 431).

Vertical restraints and the law: evidence from automobile franchising, G. Zanarone (The Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 52, Issue 4, p. 691).

Automobile distribution and network reorganization: termination of a contract and one year’s notice, M. Malaurie-Vignal (JCP éd. E, n° 11, March 18, 2010, 1265, p. 31)

Chronicle Competition Law e - Review of the rules on vertical restraints,G. Decocq (RJ com n° 4, July-August 2009, p. 268)

The prohibition of online sales to authorized resellers before the Paris Court of Appeal: the position of the... European Commission pending the position of the European... Court of Justice,M. Chagny (Comm. com. électr., Dec. 2009, comm. 24)

The iPhone marketing exclusivity: towards an epilogue in the form of commitments,M. Chagny (Comm. com. electr., March 2010, comm. 113)

Chronique Distribution,M. Malaurie-Vignal and N. Mathey (Contracts, conc., consom. March 2010, comm. 69 to 73, p. 25; Apr. 2010 comm. 90 to 98, p. 23)

3. Abuse of dominance

Using abuse of collective dominance in Article 102 TFEU to fight tacit collusion: the problem of proof and inferential error,F. E. Mezzanotte (World Competition, Vol. 33, Issue 1, p. 77)

The ordeal and capitulation of Microsoft or the confirmation of the "global power" of the European competition policeman,J.-M. Thouvenin (RMCUE, n° 535, Feb. 2010, p. 76)

Glaxosmith" judgment: contractual clauses relating to parallel trade in medicines, B. Bar-Bouyssière (JDE, No. 166, Feb. 2010, p. 46)

The elusive antitrust standard on bundling in Europe and in the United States in the aftermath of the Microsoft cases,N. Economides & I. Lianos (Antitrust Law Journal, 2009, Vol. 76, Issue 2, p. 483)

See also, in the issue of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics presented at the beginning of Microsoft and the limits of antitrust, W. H. Page (Journal of Competition Law & Economics, March 2010, Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 33).

Excessive pricing and the prohibition of the abuse of a dominant position,A. Pozdnakova (World Competition, Vol. 33, Issue 1, p. 121)

The Commission’s new enforcement priorities in applying article 82 EC to dominant companies’ exclusionary conduct: a shift towards a more economic approach, M. Kellerbauer (ECLR, May 2010, Vol. 31, Issue 5, p. 175).

A fine of 1,060,000,000 euros! (note ss. EC Comm., 13 May 2009, Intel),M. Chagny (Electr. Comm., Feb. 2010, comm. 15)

Rebates under article 82 EC: navigating uncertain waters,L. Kjolbye (ECLR, Feb. 2010, Vol. 31, Issue 2, p. 66).

4. Restrictive practices

Le champ d’application dans l’espace des dispositions de la LME en matière de pratiques restrictives de concurrence, A. Malan (Contrats, conc., consom March 2010, Étude, 4, p. 7)

Practices restricting competition: condemnation of a supermarket for manifest imbalance (T. com. Lille, 6 Jan. 2010, Castorama), J.-C. Grall (JCP éd. E, n° 5,. 2010, 84, p. 5)

See also, with regard to the same judgment, which is the first to apply the new concept of "significant imbalance" from the LME, the commentary by Nicolas Mathey (Contrats, conc., consom mars 2010, comm. 71, p. 21)

5. Concentrations

Guidelines of the Competition Authority on Merger Control,C. Anadon (RLDA Feb. 2010, No 46, p. 33)

The control exercised by the administrative judge (CE, 31 July 2009, Sté. Fiducial audit and Fiducial expertise), M. Bazex (D. Adm., Jan. 2010, No. 1, p. 17)

6. State aid

7. Public sector and competition

Competitive tendering and outward advantage, an empirical study of the urban public transport sector in France ,A. Yvrande-Billon (Revue d’économie industrielle, 3rd quarter 2009, n° 127, p. 113)

The award and litigation of Community public contracts,C. Dubois and S. Engelen (JDE, Jan. 2010, n° 165, p. 1)

L’autorité de la concurrence est compétente pour connaître des litiges relatifs aux pratiques anticoncurrentielles dans l’exécution d’un marché public, B. Delaunay (RJEP, March 2010, n° 673, p. 18)

Attribution of public domain occupation agreements and competition rules: the border is still narrowing, C. Chamard-Heim (RJEP, Feb. 2010, n° 672, p. 17)

Le droit public économique vu à travers la crise, P. Idoux (D. Adm.,March. 2010, n° 3, p. 7)

La banalisation du livret A : une exigence du droit de la concurrence, A. Baloki (D. Adm., Jan. 2010, No. 1, p. 12)

L’incidence du droit de la concurrence sur le principe et le régime de l’intervention publique (AdlC, avis n°10-a-02, 1 Feb. 2010 relative à l’équipement numérique des salles de cinémas), M. Bazex (D. Adm., April 2010, n° 4, p. 22)

8. Procedures

8.1. General

Security, predictability and transparency, the watchwords of competition procedures, C. Grynfogel (Contracts, conc., consom avr. 2010, Focus, 28, p. 3)

Admissibility of unfair evidence before the Competition Authority: reasonable and not unlawful,J. Raynaud (JCP éd. E, n° 15, 15 Apr. 2010, 1347, p. 21)

Protection of business secrecy: Questions and answers from the Competition Authority, N. Raud and G. Notted (JCP éd. E, No. 9-10,. 4 March 2010, 144, p. 3)

Bruno Lasserre pleads for group action in France, O. Dufour (Petites affiches, 1 Feb. 2010, No. 22, p. 7)

Final episode in the Schneider/Legrand saga: the ECJ reduces the compensation awarded to Schneider by the CFI, J.-C. Bermond (RDAI/IBLJ, 6/2009, p. 749)

8.2. Sanction Policy - Clemency - Settlement - Undertakings

When the Paris Court of Appeal attacked the sanction policy of the Competition Council, now the Competition Authority...,D. Ferré and K. Biancone (RLDA March 2010, No. 47, No. 2773, p. 37)

The authors of this article offer a detailed commentary on the ruling handed down on 19 January 2010 by the Paris Court of Appeal in the steel trading cartel case, which considerably reduced the record fines imposed by the Competition Council and, beyond that, profoundly questioned the Competition Authority’s sanction policy, not only with regard to the criteria to be taken into account in setting sanctions, but also with regard to the method of calculating the sanction.

See also, in connection with the same case, the interview with Thierry Fossier, President of the Economic Regulation Division of the Paris Court of Appeal (RLDA March 2010, No. 47, No. 2788, p. 65), as well as the interview with the Minister of the Economy, setting out the reasons why she did not appeal to the Court of Cassation against the Paris Court of Appeal’s judgment on the steel products trading cartel delivered on 19 January 2010 (Ibid, p. 67) and confirming the setting up of a working group to make proposals on the method that could be adopted to improve the predictability of the amount of sanctions. See also, on the same subject, L. Idot (Europe, March 2010, Focus, 12); L. Idot, "L’affaire du " cartel de l’acier " et la politique de sanction au sein du Réseau européen de concurrence"; Quel rôle pour l’amende dans la régulation économique? F. Peltier and O. de Juvigny (Les Échos, 1 Apr. 2010, p. 13); L’intérêt de lignes directrices pour réduire l’imprévisibilité des sanctions en droit de la concurrence, C. Vilmart (JCP éd. E, n° 8, 25 Feb. 2010, Actualités 130, p. 3); L’arrêt " cartel de l’acier " : une indulgence qui fait débat, S. d’Auzon (Le Moniteur, n° 5544, 26 Feb. 2010, p. 92); Cartels remain a cancer for the economy, E. Combe (Le Figaro, 2 March 2010); La retenue de la Cour de Paris face au cartel des sidérurgistes, É. Chevrier (D. 2010, No. 5, p. 261); see also the editorial in this issue, Sanction pécuniaire ou amende ?, C. Lucas de Leyssac (Concurrences No. 2-2010, p. 1).

The undertaking and the group of companies in Community competition law: from economic unity to single representation,L. Arcelin-Lécuyer (RLDA Apr. 2010, n° 48, p. 57)

Fines against parent companies in EU antitrust law: setting incentives for Best Practice Compliance’, K. Hofstetter & M. Ludescher (World Competition, Vol. 33, Issue 1, p. 55).

9. Regulations

The organisation of companies in the face of competition and regulatory law,P. Lombart (RJEP, March 2010, n° 673, p. 1)

It is a plea for a pragmatic implementation of the new rules resulting from the 3rd energy package. Indeed, the author recalls the various constraints applicable to former public monopolies under both competition and regulatory law which in this context directly influence, not the behaviour of companies, but the very organisation and structure of the latter. However, the author notes, in view of the current state of jurisprudence and regulation, particularly in the energy sector, a very clear strengthening of these rules. Indeed, alongside competition law, which can impose structural remedies, notably through the transfer of activities, the new Community provisions in this regulated sector are a real attack on the autonomy of energy sector companies in terms of corporate governance. The latter are now under the very strict control of the regulatory authorities.

The Dispute Settlement and Sanctions Committee (CoRDiS) of the Energy Regulatory Commission,P-F. Racine (RJEP, March 2010, No. 673, p. 3)

The new rail regulation,R. Peylet (RJEP, Feb. 2010, n° 672, p. 3)

Towards the recognition of "market law"? About the law of 8 December 2009 on opening up rail transport to competition, M. Bazex (D. Adm., Feb. 2010, n°2, p. 31)

10. International policy

Chronique politiques de concurrence, N. Jalabert-Doury, D. Le Marec, A. Tercinet & P. Le More (RDAI/IBLJ, 1/2010, p. 63)

This column is devoted to the analysis of international competition law news. As usual, issue 1-2010 covers not only the latest developments in EU competition law, but also in national laws, as well as international developments in the field. The focus of this issue will be on developments in the field of private enforcement of competition law, i.e. private actions for compensation for damages caused by the violation of antitrust rules, both through initiatives taken by the European Commission and through the position taken at national level by the British authorities.

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