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Competition policy as a cattle market 19 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
As part of a package of consultation documents relating to the new Competition and Markets Authority (CAM), BIS has published its view of the strategic priorities that should inform the work of the CM...
Re thinking the de minimis rules 17 Jul 2013 | 04:54 pm
In the light of Case C-226/11 Expedia, judgment of 13 December 2012, the European Commission is consulting on a revision of the de minimis Notice (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/consultations/2013_de...
Delay in competition cases 4 Jun 2013 | 09:38 pm
It is well known in the competition law community that the General Court of the EU has a significant backlog of cases and that it takes around four years on average for it to hear a competition case. ...
Time and EU competition law 3 May 2013 | 07:24 pm
As it has been a relatively slow week for activities on the competition law front, although the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act has now hit the statute book, I thought it was worth reflecting on ...
First thoughts on the Competition and Markets Authority 26 Apr 2013 | 05:58 pm
I attended the Competition Law Association's annual Burrell lecture a couple of days ago. The lecture was given by Alex Chisholm, the chief executive designate of the Competition and Markets Authority...
Hospital mergers 19 Apr 2013 | 07:31 pm
The proposed merger between Royal Bournemouth NHS Foundation Trust and Poole NHS Foundation Trust is the first such merger to have been considered by the Competition Commission. The process seems to h...
Can advice from lawyers excuse a cartel? 14 Apr 2013 | 06:42 pm
Case C-681/11 Schenker and Co AG and others, opinion of AG Kokott of 28 February 2013, revolves centrally around the question of when an undertaking can rely on legal advice to protect it from being f...
Illegality and object agreements 9 Apr 2013 | 12:53 am
Case C-68/12 Protimonopolny urad Slovenskej republiky, judgment of 7 February 2013 (CJEU), is a case coming from the Slovakian Supreme Court. Here three Slovakian banks had agreed not to deal with a C...
State aid and the de minimis regulation 5 Apr 2013 | 03:47 pm
The European Commission is consulting on a new version of the de minimis Regulation on state aid. It is proposed that the basic de minimis threshold of €200,000 for any one undertaking is to remain. A...
How to decide when an agreement has the object of restricting competition 21 Mar 2013 | 07:17 pm
In Case C-32/11 Allianz Hungária Biztosító Zrt, v Gazdasági Versenyhivatal, judgment of 14 March 2013, the CJEU appears to have suggested a very different approach to determining when agreements have ...
