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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day Recent decisions of the EU Courts once more show that the way undertakings respond to dawn raids can have a significant impact in terms of fines. At the same time they also clarified the rights ... Read more	Benefits and costs of co-operating under the European Commission’s Leniency Notice Companies that have been involved in an illegal cartel affecting trade in the EU may significantly reduce their exposure to sanctions if they decide to co-operate with the European Commission (the Commission) under its Leniency ... Read more
UK bids to become the forum of choice for antitrust The UK Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) has now published the UK government’s response to a consultation regarding private actions for damages arising from infringements of UK competition law. In this publication, Private ... Read more	European competition law selected highlights: the last six months of 2012 The last six months of 2012 saw a number of interesting European competition law developments. In this article we summarise those which appear to us to stand out as raising issues of substance or procedure ... Read more
Proposed changes to the EU merger control regime In a recent speech on EU merger control, the European commissioner for competition, Joaquin Almunia, identified two areas where he considered changes were required to the current EU merger control regime. First he highlighted his ... Read more	A fresh look at price promises: the impact of competition law Customers may often demand that suppliers’ charge prices that are the same as, or lower than, those charged to other customers. For some time, it has been assumed that these arrangements reduce supply chain costs ... Read more
Public procurement: getting back to basics Hardly a week goes by now when there is not a new development in public procurement. The once staid regime has had a new lease of life and there have been several contributory factors. More ... Read more	Commission turns up the heat on cartels On 11 November 2009, the European Commission imposed fines totalling over €173m on companies involved in a cartel in the market for heat stabilisers (Commission decision of 11 November 2009 in case 38.589). This brings ... Read more
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