The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic during the last decade. Furthermore, this drop in enforcement activity is convincingly connected to enforcement problems on the sides of the competition agencies. This paper goes...

L'articolo esamina i primi cinque anni di vigore del Regolamento n. 1/2003, con particolare riferimento agli esiti dell'applicazione decentrata delle norme europee antitrust da parte delle Autorità nazionali della concorrenza (NCA). La scelta del legislatore europeo è stata quella di spingere...

In the European Union, competition policy regarding intellectual property related restrictions of competition has considerably changed in orientation. Whereas in the field of contractually agreed upon or concerted practices (Art.81 EC Treaty) licensing agreements, namely agreements on the...

Restructuring processes are a complex and global phenomenon occurring all over Europe. The recent analyses of restructuring operations in the European Union are part of the search for common Community values vis-à-vis globalisation. The European policy thus triggers and frames the restructuring...

The participants of internal and international economic exchanges, the partners that compete in a market economy are always the “enterprises”, no matter their name and form. In Romania after 1989, the economic legislation and practice took from other countries experience different terms to...

Both in US antitrust and EU competition policy a development to a broader appli-cation of rule of reason instead of per se rules can be observed. In the European discussion the attempt to base competition policy on a more economic approach is mainly viewed as im-proving the economic analysis in...

Notre analyse a pour but de déterminer à quel type de concurrence sera confronté un entrant sur le marché gazier européen. L’augmentation de la dépendance des importateurs européens, la sécurité des approvisionnements et la diversification des offres d’énergies entraînent une...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> In September 2006, the European Council decided to put an end to the exemption Regulation from which liner conferences had been benefiting since 1986. The European Commission pledged to ?facilitate the transition towards a fully competitive system?, while showing ambitions in support of an...