Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 3 (2008)

Contents:

Articles

• The design of competition policy institutions for the 21st century — the experience of the European Commission and DG Competition by Philip LOWE
• The General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER): bigger, simpler and more economic by Harold NYSSENS
• Rolling back regulation in the telecoms sector: a practical example by Ágnes SZARKA
• The new Guidelines on the application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty to the maritime sector by Carsten BERMIG and Cyril RITTER
• The new settlement procedure in selected cartel cases by María Luisa TIERNO CENTELLA

Opinions and comments 

• The importance of access to fuels for competition in the electricity sector: the case of lignite in Greece by Philippe CHAUVE and Polyvios PANAYIDES
• Approved guarantee methods for regional aid or de-minimis aid — the German and the Hungarian example by Rolf TUCHHARDT, András TARI and Christophe GALAND
• Economic analysis in vertical mergers by Raphaël DE CONINCK

Antitrust

• The CISAC decision — creating competition between collecting societies for music rights by Alain ANDRIES and Bruno JULIEN-MALVY

Cartels 

• Recent cartel cases — Sodium Chlorate and Aluminium Fluoride by Anna TISSOT-FAVRE, Andrej KRÁLIK, Tiina PITKÄNEN and Petr ŠOCHMAN

Merger control 

• Mergers: Main developments between 1 May and 31 August 2008 by Mary LOUGHRAN and John GATTI
• Digital maps go vertical: TomTom/Tele Atlas and Nokia/NAVTEQ by Carles ESTEVA MOSSO, Michal MOTTL, Raphaël DE CONINCK and Franck DUPONT
• Rewe/Adeg — Food for thought — Austrian markets for daily consumer goods by Michael KÖNIG, Yvonne SIMON, Emmanuel TERRASSE and Sandra KIJEWSKI

State aid 

• Funding of public service broadcasting and State aid rules — two recent cases in Belgium and Ireland by Nóra TOSICS, Ronald VAN DE VEN and Alexander RIEDL
• The principle of incentive effect applied to training aid — Some recent cases by Loredana VON BUTTLAR and Salim MEDGHOUL
• The Hellenic Shipyards decision: Limits to the application of Article 296 and indemnification provision in privatisation contracts by Christophe GALAND

Information section

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