In the ongoing transformation from “industrial capitalism” towards an “informational capitalism”, one of the core challenges is for the law to design and enforce an appropriate legal framework for the access and use of data. Focusing on access to product and online services usage data,...

The article discusses a legislative gap as regards the appropriate limitation periods for various offences under the Romanian competition legislation prior to 2003 and proposes to solve the issue by looking at the Community law provisions. Thus, the Competition Act 21/1996, prior to its...

The European Commission sought public comment on a revision of its Notice on the definition of the relevant market. Among other things, this contribution advises the Commission to: acknowledge the analytic purpose served by the relevant market in competitive assessment; apply the hypothetical...

The case in question represents just one of several legal actions that ZTS Gamrat and its distributors undertook against the decision of the Polish national competition agency, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, UOKiK President, after the Polish...

Commitment decisions are a relatively new instrument of competition law enforcement both in the EU and in the Member States. They provide a competition authority with a tool to handle certain complex competition cases quickly and flexibly where the parties are willing to cooperate. Yet,...

This brief essay reviews Firat Cengiz’s book “Federalism in the EU and the US” (2012), which compares the role of federalism in the competition law of the European Union and the United States. Both of these systems are “federal,” of course, because both have individual nation-states...

This article synthetisizes the debate on the need to address the issue of competition on global markets. It shows that negative externalities arise because at the same time that markets become more internationalized, market governance remains fragmented at the level of nation states. Remedies...

Chapter 1: Regulation and Competition -- Chapter 2: Economics of Competition and Markets -- Chapter 3: Emergent Markets -- Chapter4: Economics of Horizontal Agreements and Vertical Agreements -- Chapter 5: Dynamics of Competition and Antitrust -- Chapter 6: Economic Analysis of Combinations:...

In its “Discussion Paper for Interim Report No. 5” of February 2022, the ACCC asked for suggestions on updating competition and consumer law for digital platform services. This paper addresses the larger issues involved from a specifically “European perspective”. To these ends, the...

In Austria, the Federal Competition Authority does not adopt its own infringement decisions but needs to apply to the Cartel Court to have a fine imposed or an infringement terminated. For the purposes of Regulation 1/2003, the Cartel Court is therefore designated as a (judicial) national...