Collective dominance : The EU Court of Justice annuls the decision of the Commission authorizing the merger between two music corporations for not having fully taken into account the risk associated with the existence of a collective dominance (Sony Music / BMG)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Another setback for the Commission in merger control. But this time the Court of First Instance of the European Communities The European Commission has not criticised the Commission for having prohibited a between companies, but to have, by a decision of 18 July, decided that the 2004, declared the Sony Music/BMG merger compatible with the common market in spite of the risks of strengthening a collective dominant position on the recorded music market. The present judgment, delivered in T-464/04,