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Distortion of competition is often at the core of environmental regulation. In some cases, this is a necessary price to pay, since regulation has to favor certain industries or production techniques at the expense of others. However, stressing [...]

In recent years, competition authorities have applied general competition rules in regulated industries, in addition to or instead of the regulation there in force.This raises issues as the two sets of rules are not necessarily identical and the [...]

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice has held that it is anticompetitive for the Football Association Premier League (FAPL), when licensing the broadcasting of football matches by satellite, to require its licensees not to supply decoder [...]

The aid granted by the Irish State to Anglo Irish Bank was approved under European State aid rules as it did not distort competition with the exit of the bank from the market, but the case illustrates that a more active prudential control is needed to [...]

Since last May, the French Competition Authority is endowed with fining guidelines combining provisions of the corresponding European Guidelines and considerations of its own.The Notice lays down a two-step method—basic amount adjusted on an [...]

In Morgan Stanley/Visa, the Commission compelled the later company to open its payment system to the former.In economics, the case raised questions dealt with under the ‘double-sided market’ theory.Apparently, that theory was not used by [...]

A broadcasting licensing system granting territorial exclusivity and dividing the Internal Market along a Member State basis, without allowing alternative access to a particular broadcaster through a decoder card, is contrary to EU free movement rules [...]

As Brasil has become a major economic player, the need to have a fully modernized competition law is emerging with more stringency.Discussions have been under way within the Brasilian legislature for ten years and there are signs that a new bill could [...]