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November 24, 2014 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Investigatiile din retail si standardul de proba in ceea ce priveste incalcarile per se

Asa cum am promis, revin cu cateva consideratii referitoare la activitatea Consiliului Concurentei in zona de comert de retail cu produse alimentare. Exista multe voci si opinii avizate care afirma ca investigatiile recente, care privesc pe Cora, Carrefour, Auchan si Kaufland ar fi de fapt...

November 14, 2014 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Noua investigatie privind posibile fapte anti-concurentiale pe piata de retail alimentar

Desi detaliile disponibile public sunt putine, investigatia declansata recent asupra Auchan, Cora, Carrefour si Kaufland pare sa fie pe aceleasi coordonate ca si investigatia mai veche, cu privire la Metro, Selgros, Mega Image si unii distribuitori ai acestora.Cu privire la aceasta din urma investigatie, asupra...

October 15, 2014 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Ups, Deutsche Telekom did it again…

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM HIT WITH $88 MLN EU ANTITRUST FINE 15-Oct-2014 12:28Â· Deutsche Telekom caught a second time for "margin squeeze"Â· Orange in Poland and Spain's Telefonica guilty in the pastBy Foo Yun CheeBRUSSELS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom was fined 69.9 million euros ($88.4 million) by EU antitrust...

September 11, 2014 In Cases and Decisions, Financial services By Dr. Valentin Mircea

MasterCard loses the appeal at ECJ and its consequences will be wide for the banking and the payments industries

As the result of the decision issued on 11 September 2014 by the European Court of Justice, MasterCard will have to cancel its multilateral interchange fees (MIFs), a situation which will put it at disadvantage with the competitor VISA, which chosed to settle the matter...

April 2, 2014 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

UPDATE. Liga Profesionista de Fotbal este in off-side

UPDATE: La o sesiune de intrebari de azi, 15 mai 2014, de pe Hotnews.ro, dl.Presedinte Chiritoiu declara, raspunzand la o intrebare privind modalitatea de respectare de catre LPF a regulilor de concurenta in ceea ce priveste retransmiterea meciurilor de fotbal:"Consiliul a fost implicat in felul...

March 9, 2014 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Valentin Mircea in “Ziarul Financiar” din 5 martie 2014 – Amendarea Transelectrica de catre Comisia Europeana va avea si alte consecinte, pe langa amenda aplicata

Un fost sef de la Concurenta: Amendarea Transelectrica de catre Comisia Europeana va avea si alte consecintemiercuri, 17:49Autor: Roxana PetrescuAmenda de un milion de euro data azi de Comisia Europeana bursei de energie OPCOM, filiala a Transelectrica, va genera mai multe efecte, unul dintre acestea fiind...

February 1, 2014 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Valentin Mircea in “Ziarul Financiar” din 31 ianuarie 2014: O premiera – primul cartel care privea si piata romaneasca, sanctionat de catre Comisia Europeana

Comisia Europeana a marcat ieri, 29 ianuarie 2014, o premiera in ceea ce priveste Romania - primul cartel sanctionat de catre Comisia Europeana - nu de catre Consiliul Concurentei din Romania - care a privit si piata romaneasca.Astfel, Comisia a aplicat amenzi totalizand 114.077.000 Euro...

November 11, 2013 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Article in the October 2013 issue of the magazine “Concurrences” regarding the recent case-law of the Romanian courts on the interpretion of the concept of “legal privilege” in competition matters

http://www.concurrences.com/Bulletin/News-Issues/December-2012/The-Bucharest-Court-of-Appeal...

October 4, 2013 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Analiza de catre Consiliul Concurentei a tranzactiei GFR/CFR nu este o formalitate

Sa ofer pentru toata lumea cateva clarificari in legatura cu obligatiile Grup Feroviar Roman in ceea ce priveste CFR si obtinerea autorizarii Consiliului Concurentei:1. Tranzactia putea fi notificata inca de acum 3 luni - din iunie 2013 - iar pana acum decizia de autorizare sau...

August 6, 2013 In Cases and Decisions, Communications and Technology By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Italy: Vodafone launches billion-Euro dominance abuse case against Telecom Italia – Competition Policy International (CPI)

This is an interesting situation - the first case in Europe (as far as I know) when a big telecom company brings a follow-on legal action against another big telecom company, which was found to have abused its market position. The case is interesting also...