EU Competition Law

Abstract

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. EU Competition Law: Text, Cases, and Materials provides a complete guide to European competition law in a single authoritative volume, pairing extract material with clear and in-depth author commentary. Carefully selected extracts from key cases, academic articles, and statutory materials are accompanied by in-depth commentary and critique from two experienced academics in the field. Thorough footnoting and referencing give a tour of the available literature, making this an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as competition law scholars engaged in specialized study. This fifth edition has been fully updated with: detailed coverage and commentary on judgments, decisions, regulations and other measures published by competition law authorities including the Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission, and various national courts; coverage of key Article 101 cases including Expedia , T-Mobile , Pierre Fabre , Allianz Hungária Biztosító Zrt , and Generali-Providencia Biztosító Zrt v. Gazdasági Versenyhivatal ; Article 102 cases, including TeliaSonera , Deutsche Telekom , Telefónica , Tomra , Post Danmark , and AstraZeneca ; and thorough discussion of ongoing developments in competition law, including the Commission's aggressive enforcement policy against cartels, the review of merger processes and regulations, the compatibility of EU competition procedures with human rights provisions, and the increased number of Article 267 references from national courts.

Slovenian and German Competition Policy Regimes: A comparative analysis

“…Official Gazette RS, No 76/2015. Until 2015, the suppression of unfair competition was regulated by the Protection of Competition Act, and theprevention and restriction of competition was regulated by the Prevention of Restriction of Competition Act. 2 The special position of certain sectors like agriculture, transport, and atomic energy should be noted (Jones & Sufrin, 2008).…”

Mind the trend! Enforcement of EU law has been moving to ‘Brussels’

“…Enforcement, i.e., monitoring compliance, investigating an alleged violation and the sanctioning of a violation, can rectify non-compliance and promote the attainment of policy goals. (Multilevel implementation) research on the enforcement of EU law has been scarce and has focused largely on domestic compliance with EU law, mostly at the transposition stage (but see Thomann 2015), the enforcement of EU law by national authorities, especially in the field of environmental law (Faure 2004;Martens 2006;Tosun 2012;Treib 2014;Versluis 2003;Versluis and Tarr 2013;Vervaele 1999a;Wenneras 2007) and the area of financial fraud (Pujas 2003;Quirke 2010;Vervaele and Luchtman 2015;Vervaele 2013), and the traditional area of EU direct enforcement in competition law (Articles 101 and 102 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union [TFEU]; Cseres 2016; Jones and Sufrin 2014;Monti 2007). The traditional division between regulatory and enforcement stages of the policy cycle belonging to the EU and national levels respectively can explain the existing focus.…”

New Media and Sport

“…In other words, the host countries should guarantee that the entire World Cup event should be free of tax for FIFA. 67 Following the exit from the competition of their team, hooligans damage property and infrastructure or stone buses transporting rival fans. The Government Guarantee No.…”

“…64 ECHR, Informationsverein Lentia and others v. Austria, para 39 (hereafter: Lentia case). 67 In the Özgür Gündem case, the European Court of Human Rights formulated it as follows: ''[g]enuine, effective exercise of this freedom [of expression] does not depend merely on the State's duty not to interfere, but may require positive measures of protection, […]''. 66 the European Convention, which is not true for the positive obligations.…”

“…68 The same reasoning could be found in the VGT Verein gegen Tierfabriken case: ''in addition to the primarily negative undertaking of a State to abstain from interference in Convention guarantees, ''there may be positive obligations inherent'' in such guarantees. 72 As indicated by Harris, O'Boyle and Warwick, the relevant factors that could be considered are the following: the kind of expression rights at stake, their public interest nature, their capacity to 67 Akandji-Kombe 2007, 5-6. 69 Recently, in the 2008 Khurshid Mustafa and Tarzibach v. Sweden case, the European Court of Human Rights gives new evidence that a State's positive obligation to guarantee access to information is not restricted to public (state-held) documents.…”