State of Competition
January 7, 2013 In Distribution, Health Care By Dr. Valentin Mircea

UPDATE. From the producer to the customer – is the shortest way the best way ? Considerations about the advertising and pharma industries.

UPDATE 4:In February 2014 the Romanian Government issued an Emergency Government Ordinance (EGO), no 2/2014, which extends the public service obligations to ensure the uninterrupted provision of drugs also to the manufacturers and their authorized importers.  In addition, EGO 2/2014 provides that for the drugs...

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December 11, 2012 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

EUROPA – PRESS RELEASES – Press Release – Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Romanian Power Exchange

EUROPA - PRESS RELEASES - Press Release - Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Romanian Power Exchange: EUROPA - PRESS RELEASES - Press Release - Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Romanian Power Exchange.Please note that OPCOM is the sole power exchange allowed to operate in Romania...

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September 14, 2012 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

The Commission vs.Gazprom

Professor Alan Riley has a thoughtful article in Wall-Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443921504577643173700034222.html - on the stakes of the recent investigation opened by the European Commisson into EU dealings of the giant Gazprom.This investigation, like any other investigation of the European Commission, lies on real (and worrisome) antitrust issues....

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September 14, 2012 In Communications and Technology By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Smartphones, mobile networks and competition

The author's point in this aticle - http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-iphone-wireless-subsidies-20120912,0,7775846.story - is mostly correct. I would add that subsidizing handsets works in a similar way with taxation - a few benefit but everybody pays. The subsidies of the mobile phone companies are eventually costs, "shared" by all the subscribers of that...

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