Cooperation Between Antitrust Agencies At The International Level

Author : Bruno Zanettin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847311375

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Cooperation Between Antitrust Agencies at the International Level by Bruno Zanettin Pdf

The issue of international antitrust enforcement is high on the agenda for both developed and developing countries. Bilateral cooperation between antitrust agencies, in particular the European Commission and US agencies, is the focus of this new work. It first shows how bilateral cooperation was developed as a response to the limits of the unilateral and extraterritorial application of national competition laws, and how it has evolved from an instrument initially designed to avoid conflicts into a tool aimed at coordinating joint investigations of international competition cases. It then considers how bilateral cooperation could be used optimally, by analysing two forms of advanced cooperation: the exchange of confidential information, and positive comity, which is the only satisfactory answer competition law can provide to market access cases. It shows that the use of such instruments is limited by significant legal and political obstacles, even in the context of the exemplary EC US relationship. The book therefore argues that the efficient use of bilateral cooperation will be limited to a small number of well-established competition agencies. If international anticompetitive practices are to be efficiently addressed by an increasingly large and heterogeneous group of competition agencies, horizontal cooperation between antitrust agencies must be complemented by a multilateral and supranational solution going beyond proposals currently put forward. The book concludes that only the WTO and its dispute settlement system could provide the basis for such a system.

Author : Bruno Zanettin
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841133515

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Cooperation Between Antitrust Agencies at the International Level by Bruno Zanettin Pdf

This book focuses bilateral cooperation between antitrust agencies, in particular the EC and the US agencies.

Author : Mark R. Joelson
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041191083

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An International Antitrust Primer by Mark R. Joelson Pdf

Despite the continuing inter-government cooperation over the regulation of international commerce, significant cross-country differences persist in areas such as merger control, notification to authorities, and remedies deemed appropriate for antitrust enforcement. Accordingly, companies must be aware of the rules that apply in the countries in which they do business. This fourth edition of the Kintner-Joelson classic International Antitrust Primerprovides a thorough update of the status of competition regulation in a number of key jurisdictions, including up-to-date case law involving the technology giants Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. Coverage focuses on the European Union and the United States — which continue to be foremost in the enforcement and refinement of comprehensive competition laws — but also takes into account the vast strides that are being made elsewhere, with chapters on South Korea, Japan, and India, as well as a chapter on the United Kingdom with a section on the post-Brexit implications. The book provides essential guidance on such issues of concern to business persons and their counsel as the following: • intellectual property rights; • extent and kind of criminal sanctions; • extraterritorial reach; • mergers and acquisitions; • level and type of enforcement activity; • effects of national foreign or domestic policy; • permissible cooperation among competitors; and • public procurement. Business persons, government officials, students, lawyers, and others who have been relying on this preeminent resource for years will greatly appreciate this thoroughly updated edition. There is nothing else that so lucidly and helpfully explains competition law for those who require a working knowledge of the subject to proceed confidently in their day-to-day work.

Author : Andrew T. Guzman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195387704

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Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy by Andrew T. Guzman Pdf

"This work illustrates how domestic competition law policies intersect with the realities of international business. The first part of the book provides country reports explaining the extraterritorial reach of national laws; the countries covered are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the EC, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and the United States. The second part of the book offers several proposals for effectively managing these overlapping competition policy regimes--by the publisher."

Author : Barry Rodger
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041146717

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Landmark Cases in Competition Law by Barry Rodger Pdf

It is the thesis of this fascinating and highly instructive book on competition law that an examination of one landmark case, scenario, or 'saga' each from a range of legal systems leads to a thorough understanding of the issues informing and arising from competition policy, law, and legal practice. To that end, leading scholars from 14 jurisdictions enhance their academic authority and rigour with an element of panache to describe a particularly salient case in each of their countries, commenting in depth on the contribution of the case to the development of their particular competition law culture and to the case’s enduring significance for competition law and its enforcement from a global perspective. There are chapters for each of thirteen countries as well as the European Union, preceded by an informative and thoughtful introduction. For each landmark case selected, the legislative background, the case facts, and the legal ruling and reasoning are all minutely described, along with commentary, critique, and assessment of the case’s impact and contemporary significance. The cases cover vast swathes of the competition law territory in terms of substance and procedure, dealing with cartels, abuse of dominance, mergers, and vertical restraints, and involving diverse forms of public and private enforcement processes. Aspects covered include the following: the public interest test; bid-rigging in public procurement; the entitlement of dominant companies to compete on a level footing with other companies; the hard-to-draw line between legitimate competition and unlawful monopolizing conduct; the dangers of eclectic borrowing in the development and interpretation of competition law rules; horizontal price-fixing collusion ‘hub and spoke’ cartels; resale price maintenance agreements and the U.S. ‘rule of reason’; the increasing use of private enforcement and the right for victims of a competition law infringement to seek compensation; merger control in energy markets and the political use of merger review rules to benefit domestic firms; cooperation with criminal enforcement agencies and prosecutors; the role courts play in undertaking adequate legal supervision of competition authorities; leniency processes and obtaining access to ‘confidential’ whistleblowing documentation; imposition of administrative fines and other deterrence-based sanctions; and how the ‘consumer welfare’ standard is interpreted. More than a set of landmark case descriptions, this book, in which many chapters reflect upon recent and consider further future significant reforms, demonstrates that competition law and its enforcement processes form part of a chronological narrative, and that it is important to understand the broader legal, social, and economic context within which competition law and policy develop. This wider perspective will prove immeasurably valuable to the many practitioners, business people, jurists, and policy makers engaged in the shaping of competition law in any jurisdiction, and will moreover be essential reading for postgraduate students studying any aspects of comparative competition law enforcement.

Author : Eleanor M. Fox,Daniel A. Crane
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : UOM:35112204416012

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Global Issues in Antitrust and Competition Law by Eleanor M. Fox,Daniel A. Crane Pdf

This title covers international and comparative issues of antitrust law, economics, and policy. It can be used to enrich U.S. antitrust casebooks or by itself for courses on global antitrust. It addresses all major issues of competition law and global competition policy, including extraterritoriality; global norms; cooperation, convergence, and divergence; the state's role in restraining or facilitating competition; process and procedures; and substantive areas including cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuse of dominance, and mergers. It compares developed and developing jurisdictions. It references numerous jurisdictions, including the European Union, China, Japan, India, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Latin American countries.

Author : Anton Godt
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863955595

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International Cooperation in Competition Law Matters by Anton Godt Pdf

The study outlines the status quo of international cooperation in competition law matters. This is done by examining, in chronological order, the various approaches of the many multi- and bi-lateral international agreements that have attempted to solve the problems of competition law (WTO, GATT, etc.). Subsequently, the focus of this thesis is on the analysis of bilateral trade agreements. Within the framework of this analysis, the potential of trade agreements for competition law cooperation is to be shown. For this reason, only those bilateral trade agreements are analyzed that deal with the topic of regulatory cooperation in competition law in specially provided competition chapters. In doing so, the different stages of cooperation will be analyzed along the different integration phases of any trade agreements. The highest form of trade agreement integration – customs unions – will be dealt with separately, using the EU as an example.

Author : Oliver Budzinski
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : UCSD:31822034624478

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The Governance of Global Competition by Oliver Budzinski Pdf

Employs the economics of federalism to create an analytical framework which can be used for comparative analysis of stylised competence allocation rules. This book offers a perspective on international competition policy. It is suitable for economists, legal scientists and competition authorities.

Author : Valerie Demedts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004372962

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The Future of International Competition Law Enforcement by Valerie Demedts Pdf

The Future of International Competition Law Enforcement undertakes an original assessment of the EU's international cooperation agreements in the field of competition law and is uniquely focused on the bilateral sphere, often labelled as a mere 'interim-solution' awaiting a global agreement.

Author : Roger D. Blair,D. Daniel Sokol
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199859191

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The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics by Roger D. Blair,D. Daniel Sokol Pdf

More than any other area of regulation, antitrust economics shapes law and policy in the United States, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In a number of different areas of antitrust, advances in theory and empirical work have caused a fundamental reevaluation and shift of some of the assumptions behind antitrust policy. This reevaluation has profound implications for the future of the field. The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics has collected chapters from many of the leading figures in antitrust. In doing so, this two volume Handbook provides an important reference guide for scholars, teachers, and practitioners. However, it is more than a merely reference guide. Rather, it has a number of different goals. First, it takes stock of the current state of scholarship across a number of different antitrust topics. In doing so, it relies primarily upon the economics scholarship. In some situations, though, there is also coverage of legal scholarship, case law developments, and legal policies. The second goal of the Handbook is to provide some ideas about future directions of antitrust scholarship and policy. Antitrust economics has evolved over the last 60 years. It has both shaped policy and been shaped by policy. The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics will serve as a policy and research guide of next steps to consider when shaping the future of the field of antitrust.

Author : Professor Andrew T. Guzman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199749881

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Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy by Professor Andrew T. Guzman Pdf

Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy, edited by Andrew T. Guzman, illustrates how domestic competition law policies intersect with the realities of international business. It offers a discussion of what might be done to improve the way in which cross-border business is handled by competition policy. The first part of the book provides country reports written by local experts explaining the extraterritorial reach of national laws. Each country report summarizes existing domestic law and examines the conditions under which each country applies its substantive competition laws to conduct that takes place abroad. These chapters also address the question of comity, meaning the circumstances in which a country would decline to exercise jurisdiction on the grounds that another state is the more appropriate jurisdiction. Finally, the extent of cooperation between the local government and other states is examined. In conducting cross-border business activity, these reports provide the reader with a sense of the multiple jurisdictions that a business must consider within the scope of how laws from various states interact and overlap. The countries covered include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the EC, Israel, Japan, Singapore and the United States. The second part of the book offers several proposals for effectively managing these overlapping competition policy regimes. Written by top academics and practitioners, the proposals render some of the most important current thinking on the topic. The country reports and the expert policy proposals together provide a unique perspective on international competition policy and the challenges of the international competition policy regime.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264101258

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Hard Core Cartels Recent progress and challenges ahead by OECD Pdf

This book reviews progress in the fight against hard core cartels. It quantifies the harm caused by cartels and identifies improved methods of investigation. It also examines progress in strengthening sanctions against businesses and individuals.

Author : Mateusz Błachucki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781003802662

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International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks by Mateusz Błachucki Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive study of the emergence, functioning and evolution of international cooperation among competition authorities. It presents an in-depth look at network cooperation taking place within international organisations, as well as networks based on binding international agreements and various informal networks, among others. It further identifies and analyses the forms of international cooperation among national competition authorities (NCAs) that are taking place within transnational competition networks. The book classifies these forms of cooperation by grouping them into three stages – soft, developed and enhanced cooperation – discussing each in detail. It thus reflects the evolution of the international cooperation process and provides insights as to its possible development. This work will be of interest to researchers, academics and advanced students in the fields of competition law, public administration, international relations and those interested in international competition law and its contribution to global public governance.

Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : PURD:32754066024138

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Antitrust Enforcement Guidelines for International Operations by United States. Department of Justice Pdf

Author : Alison Jones,Brenda Sufrin,Niamh Dunne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198824657

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EU Competition Law by Alison Jones,Brenda Sufrin,Niamh Dunne Pdf

The essential guide to EU competition law for students in one volume; extracts from key cases, academic works, and legislation are paired with incisive critique and commentary from an expert author team. In this fast-paced subject area, the authors carefully highlight the most important cases, legislation, and developments to allow students to navigate the breadth of legislation and case law. With their clear explanations and commentary, the authors provide invaluable support to students as they approach this complex and highly technical area of law. Extracts provide opportunities for students to understand the law in practice, and to see its relevance to business. Indispensable for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, this is the standalone guide to the competition law of the EU. Online resources: The text is accompanied by online resources containing: -An additional chapter on State Aid -Web links -Updates in the law