Information Exchanges Among Competitors under the New Horizontal Guidelines “ A Few Further Thoughts

In December 2010 the Commission adopted the revised Horizontal Guidelines with a new chapter on information exchanges. The draft Guidelines already proposed sound principles for the analysis of information exchanges, as I explained in my earlier comment. I believe that the final text is a further improvement on the draft Guidelines in some important aspects. The Commission deserves credit for being open and receptive to comments and for taking suggestions on board,