by Kevin Coates | Apr 15, 2015 | Cartels, Fines, General
Do the fining rules treat small companies badly? This is an occasional criticism of the 2006 Guidelines on Fines. Is it accurate? Let’s take an intentionally simplified example. Nine companies each have value of sales of 10m euros per year in a product which...
by Kevin Coates | Mar 17, 2015 | General
I’ll be speaking together with Johan Ysewyn at this conference on cartel developments over the last 12 months. You can take a look at the slides from the last conference here. Share...
by Kevin Coates | Mar 16, 2015 | General
GCR has an interview with Judge Forwood – subscribers only I’m afraid – which touches on a number of issues of competition, and more specifically, cartel, enforcement, in particular the evolving nature of the enforcement system now that public and...
by Kevin Coates | Feb 4, 2015 | General
In light of today’s Federal Communications Commission’s network neutrality proposals, I thought I’d look again at what I wrote in 2011 in Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets comparing EU and US telecoms regulation. Given that...
by Kevin Coates | Feb 4, 2015 | General
First, Sir Tim Berners Lee writes a guest post on Vice President Ansip’s blog on the importance of network neutrality for Europe: When I designed the Web, I deliberately built it as a neutral, creative and collaborative space, building on the openness the...
by Kevin Coates | Dec 19, 2014 | General
Thomas Sharpe QC and James Flynn QC invited me to speak to the Lincoln’s Inn Eurogroup on the relationship between public and private antitrust enforcement. This is the third main section of the speech. The others are: The Damages Directive and the protection of...
