From Kluwer Competition Law Blog: DHL Italy: European Court issues key judgment on overlapping leniency procedures “On January 20, 2016, the European Court of Justice (the Court) issued a seminal preliminary ruling on the relationship between EU and Member State leniency programmes in Case C‑428/14, DHL Express (Italy) Srl and DHL Global Forwarding (Italy) SpA v. Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM). The Court held that EU and Member… Continue reading ” This […]
From eutopialaw: Plus ça change: the legal implications of remaining within the EU “Claire Darwin, Matrix Chambers [This article was written on 5th February 2016, and does not reflect any legal or political developments after that date]. Whilst much legal ink has been spilt on the legal implications of the UK leaving the … Continue reading →” This is Commentary Elsewhere, from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the […]
From AntitrustConnect Blog: Inadvertent Collusion in E-Commerce: EU’s Highest Court Confirms that Automated Messages Can Put Recipients on the Hook for a Price-Fixing Cartel… “Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania. An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant discounts would be capped at 3 per cent. That message appeared in part of the system relating to “information messages”. The Court […]
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: MARGIN SQUEEZE: AN ABOVE-COST PREDATORY PRICING APPROACH “Germain Gaudin, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich Heine University and Despoina Mantzari, School of Law, University of Reading examine MARGIN SQUEEZE: AN ABOVE-COST PREDATORY PRICING APPROACH. ABSTRACT: We provide a new legal perspective for the antitrust analysis of margin…” This is Commentary Elsewhere, from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page.
