Archive for January 2011
GCLC Lunch Talk this Friday – Rebates after Tomra v. Commission
We still have a few seats available for our upcoming lunch talk on Michelin III Tomra v. Commission.
This lunch talk features Alan Ryan (Freshfields) and Miguel de la Mano (DG COMP) as speakers.
Registration form can be found below.
Catching up
Because you missed us, here’s a brief summary of what happened in the past two weeks:
- Last weds, my students in Liege took their competition law exam. It was a funny exam, with references to F. Beigbeder’s famous book “99 francs”, electric guitars, etc.
- The latest monthly magazine of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB, the organization that hosts the Brussels School of Competition) is devoted EU competition law. A very nice issue. See here.
- I have presented a paper on “Free riding under EU competition law” at a conference at the EDHEC Business School in Lille. A link to my ppt. presentation can be found at the end of this post. A working paper that I am drafting with my assistant N. Neyrinck will follow shortly.
- In a case involving gas distribution, the French competition authority found that the leniency applicant had sought to request immunity on the basis of falsified documents (just wonder what happened to the lawyers/in house who provided the advice)… and dismissed concerns of abuse of collective dominance with words/concepts close to those used in my Phd (thanks to Elise Provost and Joseph Vogel for the pointer).
Le droit de la concurrence face aux free-riders
Blogging from Madrid today, for the first class of the IEB programme in EU and Spanish competition law. Thanks again to Luis Ortiz and Alfonso for their kind invitation.
New Year Resolutions
Dear readers,
Best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2011. Our holidays away from blogging have extended a little more than what we´d initially announced. Sorry about that. The good news is: we´ve received plently of emails in which readers were wondering when we would open the shop again. Thanks so much for the interest!
Alfonso and I have agreed on a range of resolutions for 2011:
- Expand our readership and foster the interaction amongst readers. The fact that we are no longer boycotted by CPI’s Blog o’ Blogs (last week they recommended one post of ours for the first time) may help.
- Boost our Chillin’Leaks section
- Publish two substantive posts a week. Hopefully the Court and the Commission will give us timely “food for thought” (and draft concise, yet comprehensive opinions)
- Publish a monthly review of State Aid issues that antitrust lawyers should be aware of
- Organize more surveys
- Start doing some interviews (suggestions on names would be very welcome)
- Open Chillin’Competition to guest bloggers (as we did a few weeks ago with Pablo Ibanez)
- Ensure a timely and original coverage of the various Google investigations
- Keep our head cold and try to take things not too seriously
- Have our friends in China, Latin America and Russia inform us on what´s hot in their jurisdictions
The bottom line: This blog is yours. Please do not hesitate to send us suggestions and comments on what you would like to read here.
Now let’s chill competition again in 2011.
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