Archive for October 15th, 2009
New Paper on Exclusionary Abuses Following The Guidance Communication
I paste below the abstract of a new paper, which I presented a few months ago in Warsaw, at a seminar on abuses of dominance and new technologies. As usual, the paper can be downloaded here on ssrn.
The purpose of the present article is to offer thoughts on the “Guidance Communication on the Commission’s Enforcement Priorities in Applying Article 82 of the EC Treaty” and, in particular, to review the requirements which the Commission must meet in Article 82 EC cases when it purports to apply the Communication’s economics-oriented, effects-based. In addition, this article seeks to assess whether the Communication’s effects-based approach really entails a paradigmatic shift towards increased competition economics, comparable to the (r)evolution that has taken place in other areas of EC antitrust enforcement since the early 2000. It comes to the conclusion that whilst the Communication marks a welcome economic sophistication of the Commission’s Article 82 EC enforcement policy, it nonetheless often fails to go beneath the surface of modern antitrust economics, and thus provide only limited guidance to firms and their counsels.
Next Lunch Talk of the GCLC – 5 November 2009
The GCLC will devote its next lunch talk to “State Aid and Financial Crisis – The Application of the Principles of Restructuring Aid in Systemic Crisis Situations“. A most interesting topic, on which C. Ahlborn (Linklaters) and C. Caffarra (CRA) will cross swords (although I am not sure they have conflicting views though).
Below, the programme and registration form.
Registration Form – 41st GCLC Lunch Talk – 5 November 2009 (2)
