Unilateral conduct: The US Department of Justice issues a report on unilateral conduct abuses treatment with lenient enforcement criteria that spur a controversy with the FTC Commissioners (Single-firm conduct under s. 2 Sherman Act)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The publication on 8 September 2008, in the midst of the US presidential campaign, of a report on the treatment of unilateral conduct - in European law, abuse of dominant position - by the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) immediately gave rise to a lively political controversy in the United States. Within hours of the report being posted online, two statements were issued, one by three US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioners Mr Lebovitz and Mrs Harbour (Democrats) and Rosch (Independent) and the other by FTC Chairman William E. Kovacic, all appointed by the Republican administration of G. W. Bush. This polemic is very