by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014
Every country that is party to a cooperation agreement guarantees to take account of the important interests of the other parties to the agreement when applying its own competition law. See comity, positive comity. Source: Glossary of terms used in EU competition...
by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014
Network effects arise when a product is more valuable to a user, the more users adopt the same product or compatible ones. Economists refer to this phenomenon as a network externality, because when additional consumers join the network of current consumers they have a...
by 21st Century Competition | May 8, 2014
Contractual clause bringing about a direct or indirect obligation causing the parties to an acquisition agreement, or at least one of them, not to manufacture, purchase, sell or resell independently goods or services which compete with the contract goods or services....
by Kevin Coates | May 10, 2014
Originally published at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52005XC1222(03):EN:HTML 52005XC1222(03) Commission Notice on the rules for access to the Commission file in cases pursuant to Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty, Articles 53, 54 and...
by Kevin Coates | May 10, 2014
Originally published at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52004XC0427(04):EN:HTML 52004XC0427(04) Commission Notice on the handling of complaints by the Commission under Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty (Text with EEA relevance) ...