Despite the fact that the telecommunication sector is heavily regulated in the EU, several important telecommunication-specific competition law issues have emerged over the past two years. In its recent enforcement practice, the Commission gave important competition law guidance to the national...

A reverse tendency can be observed in the European abuse of dominance practice: while in the case of tangible assets there is an attempt to establish a transitory exemption from competition law - a sort of temporary exclusivity - with respect to intangible assets there is a move away from this...

The debate in Europe on the competition law aspects of minority shareholdings is not new but has become increasingly important since July 2011 when the Commission announced the tender for a study on the importance of minority shareholdings in the European Union.The aim of this article is to...

It is important to distinguish between economic and non-economic public services, as the latter services are not subject to EU competition law and Member States are free to regulate them. EU competition law is applicable to public services having an economic nature, with a certain degree of...

The regulation of cartels is not a new phenomenon, but has been part of doing business since the antiquity. The Sherman Act was a turning point in legislation regarding cartels. Although many decades had to pass until the current attitude towards cartels crystalized, the first half of the 20th...