Winter 2007, Volume 3, Number 2

  In this issue: The Burrell Lecture: Sir John Vickers John Vickers, Mar 22, 2007 Competition Law and Economics: A Mid-Atlantic Viewpoint In his Burrell Lecture, given before the Competition Law Association, the author compares and contrasts trends in competition law and policy on both sides of the Atlantic, noting areas in which EC and […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle John Vickers, Mar 22, 2007 Introduction When contemplating competition law and policy, many economists, I suspect, are somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. That is to say, they feel uncomfortable with aspects of EC competition law on the grounds that it is too interventionist, […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Bill Allan, Mar 21, 2007 On March 15, 2007, the European Court of Justice dismissed British Airways’ appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance which had upheld the Commission’s decision finding that BA’s travel agency incentive schemes infringed Article 82. […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Carsten Grave, Mar 21, 2007 Whilst the Court of First Instance of the European Communities  had held the Commission accountable for a lack of attention to detail in a number of circumstances, in the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) decision of 15 March […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Alex Nourry, Mar 21, 2007 On 15 March 2007, the European Court of Justice  dismissed an appeal by British Airways plc  against a judgment of the Court of First Instance, which dismissed an appeal by BA against a European Commission decision of 14 […]