In this issue: Last September, we published an issue, sponsored by Guest Editor Paul Lugard, on the EC’s Draft Guidelines for Horizontal Agreements. In December, the EC published the final…

Paul Lugard, Feb 18, 2011 Following a consultation process of more than two years, the European Commission has now adopted its Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the…

Herbert Hovenkamp, Dec 13, 2011 In Lundbeck the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision approving a merger of the only two drugs authorized to treat a rare but serious…

Paul Lugard, Feb 18, 2011 Following a consultation process of more than two years, the European Commission has now adopted its Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the…

Jorge Padilla, Feb 11, 2011 This note sets out my comments to Section 7 of the Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the TFEU to horizontal co-operation agreements…

Donncadh Woods, Feb 14, 2011 On December 14, 2010, the European Commission adopted revised EU competition rules for production agreements, research and development agreements, and other types of commercial cooperation…

Axel Gutermuth, Feb 14, 2011 On December 14, 2010, the European Commission adopted revised EU competition rules for production agreements, research and development agreements, and other types of commercial cooperation…

Lars Kjolbye, Feb 11, 2011 The Commission must be commended for having issued new Guidelines on horizontal cooperation agreements that, in terms of the analytical framework, in many ways is…

Andreas Reindl, Feb 11, 2011 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…

Mathew Heim, Feb 11, 2011 Guidelines issued by the European Commission can provide an important complement to the modernization of Europe’s competition regime. Instituted by Regulation 1/2003, modernization did away…

Richard Taffet, Feb 11, 2011 The European Commission has now issued its Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to…