The Commission's proposals regarding the implementation of art. 82 TEC are shortly presented. The authors show that they can be interpreted as another step towards a "more economic approach" because their implementation would strengthen the rule of reason even further. The Commission's proposal...

The European Union recently introduced a new criterion for testing whether notified mergers are compatible with the common market. It abandoned the dominance test and switched to a variant of the Substantial Lessening of Competition test, which has been christened Substantial Impediment to...

"Making European Merger Policy More Predictable" analyses European Merger Control with regard to its capacity to generate predictability among the concerned parties. Starting from the premise that predictability is of overwhelming importance for the functioning of market economies, Voigt and...