Five years on, the Commission is carrying out the scheduled review of the success of Regulation 1. To that end it has solicited comments from its "customers.†There are signs that it may have already prejudged the outcome of the consultation in remarks that express satisfaction at...

I would like to initially focus on one improvement that I have long believed would deal, at a stroke, with many of the deficiencies of the hearing process. My suggestion would be that it should be possible, even if not imposed on every occasion, for the oral hearing to be public. Stephen...

Although the Commission was no doubt right in its final decision to exclude data protection and privacy issues from its merger control review, the Google/DoubleClick transaction highlights how antitrust concerns in vertical mergers can arise from access to information and the market power that...

Should an independent shareholder which is not itself a party to an antitrust infringement be held liable for the misconduct of a company it jointly owns?

The on-going review of the Vertical Restraints Regulation (“VRRâ€Â) has brought to the surface a conflict between traditional retail models where the consumer takes a back seat and modern ways of retailing where the consumer is given greater freedom to select the right...