Competition Journals: July - September 2020
This section of the review Concurrences selects articles and working papers on themes related to competition laws and economics, mainly, but not only, in the English and French languages. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey on themes important in the area.
The survey usually covers publications over the last three months after release of the latest issue of Concurrences. Articles and working papers published on the Internet only are also welcome. Authors, editors and publishers are welcome to send their papers to: alain.ronzano@lactu-concurrence.fr for review in this section.
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COVID-20: The Comfort Letter Is Dead. Long Live the Comfort Letter? J. Buhart and D. Henry (World Competition 43, No. 3 (2020), 305-318
In this article, the authors revisit the first comfort letter issued on 8 April 2020 by the European Commission regarding collaboration between competitors under its Temporary Framework adopted in response to Covid-19. They consider that the publication of this comfort letter is remarkable, in view of the paradigm shift from the comfort letter system prevailing before 2003 under Regulation 17 to a self-assessment system under Regulation 1/2003. While the Commission has since introduced
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