Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From Journal of European Competition Law & Practice – Advance Access: In-house Compliance of EU Competition Rules in Practice “”
Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From CPI RSS: Is the Definition of a Cartel Ballooning? “ The media tend to refer to gangs that produce and distribute drugs as "cartels." Of course these are not cartels as we, as antitrust lawyers, traditionally use the concept. In fact "drug cartels" seem to operate as businesses in the various regular forms we know: conglomerates, cooperatives, or "one-product firms." Note, too, that the media habitually refer to rival drug cartels, meaning that these cartels are competing fiercely. So, in the antitrust context, are these cartels? To the extent we understand the agreements underlying the drug cartels, they would […]
Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From Chillin’Competition: A thought on the failing division defense, industrial policy, and commitments “The EU Commission has often been – in our view incorrectly – criticized for its blindness to industrial policy considerations. Caution: propaganda With my assistant Norman, we wrote a lenghty paper explaining how such considerations can, and should, play a – circumscribed – role in EU antitrust law. A recent case suggests that industrial policy […]”
Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From CPI RSS: Cartels: Confusing Covert and Ancillary “ The leadership at the U.S. Department of Justice—during Democratic and Republican Administrations alike—has actively encouraged competition law enforcers around the world to prosecute cartels, and to increase the penalties imposed on cartels, while encouraging leniency for cartel members that report cartels to officials. Over the last 20 years, antitrust enforcement efforts have brought down global cartels in industries from air cargo to vitamins and auto parts to memory chips. Department officials have not, however, always made clear what constitutes a "cartel" and that has left room for mischief. Department rhetoric may […]