Prezenta contribuţie are ca scop o prezentare comparativă succintă a cadrului juridic al accesului la facilităţi esenţiale în dreptul european, român şi german al concurenţei comerciale, precum şi a elementelor cheie în tratarea unor astfel de cazuri. Ea evidenţiază îndeosebi cele...

Articolul prezintă aspecte specifice dreptului concurenţei comerciale şi al proprietăţii industriale în practica recentă din domeniul informaţiilor şi tehnologiilor de comunicare (ITC), precum Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm şi Rambus. Articolul explică interpretarea articolului 102 TFUE,...

This contribution covers some preliminary aspects of an orderly Withdrawal, including the doctrine of acquired rights and trade in goods; procedural aspects of the 599-page Withdrawal Agreement, including temporal application, jurisdictional, mutual recognition and cooperation matters; and the...

The present contribution seeks to provide a normative justification for the better consideration of employment and its negative social consequences in the area of mergers. First, it challenges the widespread rhetoric of competition policy when advancing economic efficiency as a goal of...

This paper aims to unify the law on the EU free movement of goods, particularly access to relevant markets, and EU competition law on the conduct of economic operators, i.e. traders on such markets. It seeks to ascertain the historical origins and inspirational sources of EU free movement in the...

The present contribution has two inter-related purposes: first, to analyse the context and legal framework of procedural rights in EU competition law, in particular, the administrative notification of mergers, and second, to critically review any perceived flaws in the substantive, institutional...

The primary aim of this contribution is to reflect on the principles underpinning the disclosure of evidence under the Directive 2014/104/EU (hereinafter: the Directive), namely, the principles of proportionality, effectiveness, equivalence and consistency. Its secondary aim is to review the...

The aim of this article is to explore the most recent appeals concerning illegal cartels under Article 101 TFEU by revealing the relevant principles underpinning both the substantive and the procedural review of price-fixing agreements. Arguments advancing a perceived ‘criminalisation' of the...

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the critical use of commitments in the Google case and to analyse and review the matrix of facts that have been highlighted in the academic and practitioner literature. Therefore, the core area of reflection in this contribution are relevant markets;...