State of Competition | Cases and Decisions

November 2, 2024 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions, Cases and Decisions, Competition Enforcement, Uncategorized By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Nu a existat un cartel al editurilor

Unul din cele mai mediatizate cazuri din istoria Consiliului Concurenței - sancțiunile aplicate câtorva edituri și două mari lanțuri de librării - are toate indicațiile unei erori de apreciere, unei erori de standard de probă și, nu în ultimul rând, a unei erori privind consecințele...

August 14, 2022 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

The worst cartel

The word ”cartel” in itself has automatically a negative connotation, for good reasons. People associate this word with one of the worst wrongdoings in business, which annuls the competition on the merits, able to maximise efficiency, and so it affects consumers. Perhaps the best known cartels...

August 8, 2022 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

My plea for an EU Competition Tribunal

The scope of this contribution is to argue that the enforcement of the European Union competition rules requires a significant overhaul with respect to the judicial phase of this process. Since the first years of the European Communities the enforcement of the competition rules has been...

November 10, 2021 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Google Shopping at the General Court – a decision without teeth

Some consideration on the ”fresh” (so-to-speak, for a case initiated in 2009) Google Shopping case at the General Court of the European Union, which ”largely dismisses” the request for annulment lodged by Google - but not all of it. Due to the fact that it...

August 23, 2021 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Illumina’s challenge to the European Commission

The EU Competition Commissioner, Ms. Margrethe Vestager is on fire since it learned that Illumina, an US based producer of innovative screeners and markers for early detection of cancer announced that ”it completed” the acquisition of Grail, a smaller cancer test maker, before receiving a...

August 11, 2021 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions, Cases and Decisions, Distribution, Europe, Uncategorized By Dr. Valentin Mircea

ICCJ impută Consiliului Concurenței depășirile termenului de prescripție, în cauza Whiteland

După ce pe data de 20 mai 2021 Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție a dezbătut recursul Consiliului Concurenței în cauza Whiteland Import-Export - dosar 3251/2/2015 - prin decizia nr. 3853/24.06.2021 aceasta a admis recursul și a casat hotărârea Curții de Apel București prin care...

January 23, 2021 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions, Cases and Decisions, Distribution By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Curtea de Justiție a Uniunii Europene stabilește limite ale principiului efectivității, față de principiul securității juridice – cauza Whiteland vs. Consiliul Concurenței

Prin Hotărârea Camerei a doua a Curții de Justiție a Uniunii Europene din 21 ianuarie 2021 instanța supremă europeană s-a pronunțat cu privire la două întrebări, trimise de către Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție la solicitarea Consiliului Concurenței, în cadrul contestației prin care societatea...

January 16, 2019 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions, Cases and Decisions, Guest Contributions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Considerații cu privire la decizia nr.10/18.12.2018 a Consiliului Concurenței, privind agențiile de turism și ANAT

(http://www.consiliulconcurentei.ro/uploads/docs/items/bucket13/id13829/amenzi_agentii_turism_ian_2019.pdf) Decizia Consiliului Concurenței în cazul agențiilor de turism, din 18 decembrie 2018, prezintă câteva particularități interesante, pe de o parte pentru că este prima analiză de acest fel pe piața românească de turism (la care alte autorități de concurență s-au uitat deja mai demult,...

July 19, 2018 In Cases and Decisions, Europe, Innovation By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Google – big fine, little reasoning (so far)

The European Commission aims high and seems to like hitting big companies mainly because they are big. As expected by many, yesterday the European Commission handed a fresh decision to Alphabet, the holding company of Google, and almost all the headlines went to the new record...

September 25, 2017 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions, Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Competition Case Law Digest – A synthesis of EU and national leading cases

2018 Competition Case Law Digest - A synthesis of EU and national leading cases - Now Available This Digest is the most comprehensive country-by-country description and analysis by local experts of competition law regimes in EU, Member States, US and China. This 3rd edition includes 30...