There has been a great deal of discussion of the need for harmonisation of national merger control laws and procedures throughout the world, but less discussion, at least in public, of the need and scope for harmonisation of the same laws within the EU and EEA. This paper is intended to call...

Drawing on a data set of 696 documents – competition and state aid judgments, orders and opinions of the European Courts, and Advocates' General opinions referring to various soft law instruments – this detailed textual and doctrinal analysis investigates the way in which the EU Courts deal...

The article analyses the significance of the ECJ preliminary ruling on competition law. Starting with the general characteristic of the preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice, its legal regulation in TFEU and its effects, it focuses on the concrete judgement of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 7...