Donncadh Woods

The new EU Competition Rules on Horizontal Co‑operation Agreements* 1. Context On 14 December 2010, the European Commission adopted new rules and guidelines for the assessment of horizontal co operation agreements under EU competition law. This new regime consists of a set of guidelines, the (...)

"Green Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules"* A. Introduction The competition rules of Articles 81 and 82 EC can be enforced both by competition authorities (public enforcement) and by private parties who bring their case before a national court (private enforcement). (...)

"Commission adopts new safe harbour for licensing of patents, know-how and software copyright"* The European Commission has adopted on the 7th of April new rules for applying competition policy to the licensing of patents, know-how and software copyright. The new block exemption regulation, (...)

"Horizontal Co-operation Agreements : New Rules in Force"* On 1 January 2001 new rules for the assessment of horizontal cooperation agreements entered into force. The adoption by the Commission of the new ‘block exemption’ Regulations for Specialisation and R&D agreements and of the (...)

"Communication of the Commission on the application of the EC competition rules to vertical restraints - follow up to the green paper on vertical restraints"* On the 30th of September last the European Commission adopted a Communication on the application of the EC competition rules to (...)