The conventional method in determining the market position of undertakings — defining the relevant market, ascertaining the market shares, ‘‘qualitative'' analysis — has had to face more and more competition in the past decades. For some issues, there exist more suitable methods of...

Following the substantive harmonisation in Regulation (EC) no. 1/2003, the Commission has started more recently to focus on procedure and sanctions, and in January 2016, the European Parliament called for penalties against natural persons. This ‘On Topic’ issue looks at the current state of...

The article raises three questions: (i) Which role does mediation play in European and German competition law practice? (ii) Is mediation, in general, as suitable for European and German competition law cases as it is (presumably) for US antitrust? (iii) What potential does mediation hold for...