Global Issues in Antitrust and Competition Law
, by Fox, Eleanor M.- ISBN: 9780314183620 | 0314183620
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/3/2010
Foreword | p. iii |
Table of Cases | p. xix |
Cartels | p. 4 |
Introduction | p. 4 |
Law and Attitude towards Cartels | p. 4 |
Proof of a Cartel Agreement | p. 7 |
Quinine | p. 8 |
ACF Chemiefarma v. Commission (Quinine) | p. 8 |
Wood Pulp | p. 14 |
Åhl¿tröm Osakeyhtiö v. Commission (Wood Pulp) | p. 14 |
Are Effects Necessary? | p. 19 |
Crisis Cartels | p. 20 |
Competition Authority v. Beef Industry Development Society Ltd | p. 21 |
Foreign Government Action or Involvement: A Defense? | p. 29 |
US Agency Guidelines | p. 30 |
Antitrust Enforcement Guidelines for International Operations, US Department of Justice and FTC 1995 | p. 30 |
US Caselaw | p. 36 |
Act of State, Foreign Sovereign Compulsion, Comity | p. 36 |
In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation | p. 36 |
OPEC | p. 51 |
Prewitt Enterprises, Inc. v. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries | p. 51 |
Refined Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation | p. 64 |
NOPEC (Introduced in Senate) | p. 73 |
Cooperation, Convergence, and Cross-Fertilization in International Cartel Enforcement | p. 74 |
The Evolution of Criminal Antitrust Enforcement over the Last Two Decades | p. 74 |
Monopolies and Abuse of Dominance | p. 94 |
Introduction | p. 94 |
Exploitative Offenses | p. 95 |
Excessive Pricing | p. 95 |
The Competition Tribunal of South Africa | p. 98 |
Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd v. Mittal Steel Corp | p. 98 |
In the Competition Appeal Court of South Africa | p. 103 |
Mittal Steel South Africa v. Harmony Gold Mining | p. 103 |
Discriminatory Pricing | p. 110 |
In the Matter between Nationwide Poles and Sasol (Oil) Ltd | p. 112 |
Exclusionary Offenses | p. 122 |
Predatory Pricing | p. 122 |
AKZO Chemie BV v. Commission | p. 123 |
High Court of Australia | p. 126 |
Boral Besser Masonry Limited v. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission | p. 126 |
Refusals to Deal | p. 130 |
IMS Health GmbH & Co. and NDC Health GmbH & Co | p. 130 |
Microsoft Corp. v. Commission | p. 132 |
Margin Squeezes | p. 143 |
Deutsche Telekom AG v. Commission | p. 143 |
Loyalty Clauses and Exclusive Dealing | p. 148 |
Commission v. Intel Corp | p. 149 |
Patent Ambush | p. 160 |
Collaborations of Competitors Other Than Cartels | p. 166 |
Introduction | p. 166 |
Loose Collaborations | p. 169 |
Note on John Deere Ltd. v. Commission | p. 169 |
Asnef-Equifax v. Asociación De Usuarios De Servicios Bancarios (AUSBANC) | p. 170 |
Note on Polygram Holding, Inc. v. FTC | p. 173 |
Learned Professions | p. 177 |
Wouters ET Cie | p. 177 |
Collaborations in the New Economy | p. 182 |
Pharmaceuticals | p. 182 |
Credit Cards | p. 186 |
The Internet | p. 188 |
Standard-Setting Organizations and Related Patent Practices | p. 189 |
Joint Ventures | p. 190 |
Substantive Rules and Analysis | p. 190 |
European Night Services v. Commission | p. 191 |
Procedural Rules | p. 193 |
Vertical Restraints | p. 197 |
Introduction | p. 197 |
European Union | p. 198 |
Introduction | p. 198 |
Territorial Restraints, Parallel Imports and Exports, and Dual Pricing | p. 199 |
Consten and Grundig | p. 200 |
Consten and Grundig v. Commission | p. 202 |
Volkswagen AG v. Commission | p. 206 |
GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited v. Commission, CFI | p. 208 |
GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited v. Commission, ECJ | p. 213 |
Sot. Lelos Kai Sia EE v. GlaxoSmithKline AEVE | p. 216 |
Resale Price Maintenance | p. 219 |
European Commission Guidelines on Vertical Restraints | p. 220 |
Tying and Exclusive Dealing | p. 223 |
Stergios Delimitis v. Henninger Bräu AG | p. 224 |
Schöller Lebensmittel v. Commission | p. 227 |
Block Exemptions and Guidelines | p. 233 |
Vertical (Distribution and Supply) Block Exemption and Guidelines | p. 234 |
Block Exemption | p. 235 |
Guidelines on Vertical Restraints | p. 245 |
Motor Vehicle Block Exemption and Guidelines | p. 271 |
Technology Transfer Licensing Block Exemption and Guidelines | p. 273 |
Japan and Korea | p. 274 |
Japan | p. 274 |
Guidelines Concerning Distribution Systems and Business Practices Under the Antimonopoly Act | p. 275 |
Korea | p. 297 |
Developing Countries: Special Concerns | p. 298 |
Qaqaya and Lipimile, in the Effects of Anti-Competitive Business Practices on Developing Countries and Their Development Prospects (UNCTAD 2008) | p. 299 |
Mergers | p. 302 |
Introduction | p. 302 |
Domestic Issues in Analysis of Transborder Mergers | p. 302 |
Market Definition, and Deciding What Sales and What Firms Are in the Market | p. 302 |
Effects Beyond Borders | p. 303 |
Public Interest Issues in the United States | p. 304 |
National champions and antitrust | p. 304 |
Boeing Company/McDonnell Douglas Corporation | p. 304 |
Jobs, buy national, and antitrust | p. 309 |
Note on Wal-mart Stores, Inc. v. Rodriguez | p. 309 |
Executive and legislative measures that trump anti-trust | p. 311 |
Comparative Issues | p. 311 |
Substantive | p. 311 |
Market definition | p. 311 |
Standard of violation | p. 312 |
Airtours v. Commission | p. 314 |
Treatment of efficiencies | p. 322 |
ICN recommended practices for merger analysis | p. 322 |
Public Interest Defenses and Concerns | p. 342 |
Cooperation and Conflict | p. 347 |
Convergence on Pre-Merger Notification and Process | p. 347 |
Cooperation in Vetting Mergers of Common Interest | p. 348 |
Conflict | p. 348 |
General Electric/Honeywell | p. 348 |
Gencor/Lonrho | p. 349 |
Resolution of Conflict | p. 352 |
The State | p. 353 |
Introduction | p. 353 |
Advocacy | p. 355 |
Abuse of Dominance by State-Owned Enterprise | p. 359 |
Ports Cases | p. 361 |
Merci Convenzionali Porto Di Genova u. Siderurgica Gabrielli | p. 361 |
Port of Rødby | p. 363 |
State Privilege or License; Limits to Exclusivity | p. 367 |
Höfner v. Macrotron GmbH | p. 368 |
State Measures That Restrict Competition or Facilitate private Restrictions | p. 372 |
State Measures-State Responsibility | p. 372 |
Consorzio Industrie Fiammiferi (Italian matches) | p. 373 |
State Measures That Restrict Competition or Facilitate Private Restrictions-Continued | |
Slovakian Postal Legislation Relating to Hybrid Mail Services | p. 375 |
Regulation of the Professions | p. 382 |
Cipolla v. Fazari and Macrino v. Meloni | p. 382 |
Private Responsibility and the State Action Defense | p. 385 |
Commission and France v. Ladbroke Racing Ltd | p. 385 |
Consorzio Industrie Fiammiferi (Italian matches) | p. 386 |
State Aids | p. 391 |
Introduction | p. 391 |
State Aid Policy | p. 394 |
Report on Competition Policy (2006) | p. 397 |
Report on Competition Policy (2008) | p. 400 |
State Aid in Time of Financial Crisis | p. 404 |
Competition Law in an Economic Crisis | p. 404 |
Antitrust and State Aid Control-The Lessons Learned | p. 408 |
The Relationship between Regulation and Competition | p. 412 |
Hybrid State and Private Restraints-The WTO | p. 412 |
Mexican Telecoms | p. 413 |
Enforcement: Systems and Institutions | p. 419 |
Introduction | p. 419 |
Public Enforcement Models | p. 422 |
Specialized Antitrust Courts | p. 423 |
Federalism and Enforcement by Multiple Sovereigns | p. 424 |
Division of Authority | p. 424 |
Competition Law Preemption of Anticompetive Local Regulations | p. 427 |
Private Enforcement | p. 429 |
European Commission White Paper | p. 432 |
Criminal Enforcement | p. 444 |
Justifications for Criminal Enforcement | p. 444 |
Leniency | p. 446 |
Double Jeopardy and Extradition | p. 448 |
Merger Enforcement | p. 450 |
Extraterritoriality and Jurisdiction Over International Behavior | p. 454 |
Introduction | p. 454 |
The Effects Test and Comity Concerns | p. 456 |
Åhlström Osakeyhtiö v. Commission (Wood Pulp) | p. 456 |
Hartford Fire Ins. Co. v. California | p. 460 |
The Effects Test and Comity Concerns-Continued: Amicus curiae briefs in F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. v. Empagran S.A | p. 467 |
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. v. Empagran S.A. | p. 478 |
Frontiers of Antitrust Jurisdiction | p. 488 |
Alien Tort Claims Act and Customary International Law | p. 488 |
Trying to Outflank Empagran | p. 488 |
Global Governance | p. 492 |
Introduction | p. 492 |
The UNCTAD Set of Principles | p. 493 |
The Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Control of Restrictive Business Practices (UNCTAD 1980) | p. 493 |
Bilateral Cooperation Agreements | p. 505 |
US/EU Antitrust Cooperation Agreement of 1991 | p. 506 |
USIEU Antitrust Cooperation Agreement of 1998 | p. 513 |
Regional Cooperation: Developing Countries, Small Jurisdictions, and Other Cooperations | p. 518 |
Introduction | p. 518 |
Hurdles and Opportunities: Small and Developing Countries | p. 519 |
Excerpts from a Sample Law | p. 521 |
Economic Community of West African States | p. 522 |
The North American Free Trade Agreement | p. 528 |
Other Regional Cooperations: Examples | p. 530 |
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) | p. 530 |
The BRIC Countries | p. 531 |
The Van Miert Report and the Debate on Competition in the WTO | p. 532 |
The Doha Declaration | p. 558 |
Doha Ministerial Declaration | p. 558 |
The OECD Hard Core Cartel Recommendation | p. 560 |
ICPAC (International Competition Policy Advisory Committee) | p. 565 |
ICN (International Competition Network) | p. 568 |
Appendices: Excerpts from Treaties and Statutes | p. 571 |
European Union, Treaties, selected provisions | p. 572 |
European Union: Council Regulation No. 1/2003 on the implementation of the rules on competition | p. 584 |
United States statutes, selected provisions | p. 614 |
The Sherman Antitrust Act | p. 614 |
The Clayton Act | p. 615 |
Webb-Pomerene Act (Export Trade Act) | p. 620 |
Export Trading Company Act of 1982 | p. 622 |
Index | p. 629 |
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