tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60024190695439684142024-03-13T16:16:06.111+02:00State of Competition BlogA free blog dedicated to the free competitionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-7429478227569083012017-04-07T15:21:00.003+03:002017-04-07T15:21:44.058+03:00Decizie importantă a Înaltei Curți de Casație și Justiție
Admite contestația formulată de M........... S.A. împotriva încheierii nr.8 din 15 martie 2017 a Președintelui Curții de Apel București.
Casează, în parte, încheierea atacată, în sensul că înlătură din dispozitiv mențiunile: ” (…) precum și în orice alt spațiu în care își desfășoară activitatea (…)” și ”(…) cu posibilitatea prelungirii motivate a acestei perioade (…)”. Menține celelalteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-91878801387217215692017-02-11T19:48:00.000+02:002017-02-11T19:48:20.045+02:00Vote for the most interesting cases and the best competition professionals!
For more information regarding the candidates and why they deserve your votev, follow this link: http://globalcompetitionreview.com/article/1081004/gcr-awards-2017-voting-now-open
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-78572311552765339372017-01-07T17:15:00.003+02:002017-01-07T17:15:52.320+02:00Cast your vote for the Antitrust Writing Awards 2017!
There are lot of papers on antitrust issues and this is an area which attract more and more interest each year, from scholars and practitioners.
This is why the Antitrust Writing Awards, organized annualy by Concurrences Review and George Washington University Law School Competition Law Center, are a necessary process for selecting the best papers writen on competition Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-88729347492175899552016-11-22T21:30:00.003+02:002016-11-22T21:30:47.667+02:00Choice: A New Standard for Competition Law Analysis? Now Released
Concurrences Review, an independent publisher of US and EU antitrust issues, has released its newest book on consumer choice and competition law. In this book, ten prominent authors offer eleven contributions that provide their varying perspectives on the subject of consumer choice in the EU, Member States, and in the US. Various aspects of consumer choice are covered, such as the concept of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-90091658172928302452016-09-29T11:07:00.000+03:002016-11-24T09:41:19.283+02:00Consiliul Concurentei se reînnoiește
UPDATE: În data de 26 octombrie 2016 guvernul a emis avize pozitive pentru 3 dintre cei propuși: doamna Liliana Kleininger pentru funcția de vice-președinte și domnii Dragoș Vasile și Cosmin Belacurencu pentru funcțiile de consilieri de concurență.
Aceștia au primit între timp și avizul comisiilor de specialitate ale Parlamentului.
Ieri, 28 septembrie 2016, au avut loc interviurile Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-62423425138772364752016-05-26T20:23:00.003+03:002016-05-26T20:23:59.095+03:002016 New Frontiers of Antitrust Conference
You may find some of the best discussions on the enforcement of the competitions rules at the conference New Frontiers of Antitrust, which will take place this year on 13 June 2016, in Paris.
For the agenda and for registration, you may use this link: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/new-frontiers-of-antitrust-2016-tickets-22412610722
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-86487572292413227682016-02-03T21:17:00.003+02:002016-02-03T21:17:55.713+02:00I invite you to vote for the best antitrust article!
The awards aim at promoting antitrust scholarship.
100 articles have been selected by the Editorial Committee of Concurrences.
The results will be announced at the Awards Gala Dinner on April 5, 2016 in Wahsington.
I am not a candidate!
Join the vote here - http://awards.concurrences.com
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-5611705705026307992015-11-18T16:58:00.003+02:002015-11-19T10:57:18.669+02:00The Rise of the Giants
The business
landscape in Europe is on the verge of significant changes, which may affect
the future of many industries and the long-term prospects of the EU economy.
It is well known
that Europe did not manage to have the same number of successful start-ups as
the United States or some countries in Asia do and the size of the EU behemoths,
compared to competitors in other parts of the world,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-45445963417545612102015-10-14T13:26:00.004+03:002015-10-17T11:14:05.218+03:00Despre prescriptia aplicarii amenzilor prevazute de Legea concurentei
Prin OUG nr.31/2015 au fost modificate mai multe prevederi ale Legii concurenței nr.21/1996, republicată dar printre cele mai importante este una care nu iese deloc în evidență: o modificare de nuanță, care schimbă însă în totalitate sensul unui articol.
Astfel, au fost modificate alineatele (1) și (2) ale art.62, care se referă la întreruperea termenelor de prescripție pentru aplicarea de Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-87825353216347584302015-10-10T20:06:00.000+03:002015-10-10T20:06:27.339+03:00Antitrust in Emerging and Developing Economies: Africa, Brazil, China, India, Mexico...
Antitrust in Emerging and Developing Economies: Africa, Brazil, China, India, Mexico...
Concurrences Review + New York University School of Law
Friday, October 23, 2015 from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM (EDT)
New York, United States
With the participation of truly distinguished speakers from USA, Kenya, Brazil, China, India, Mexic, Malaysia.
More details and registration here.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-62994683582080988092015-10-05T21:47:00.000+03:002015-10-17T11:15:46.463+03:00Angajamente si...angajamente la Consiliul Concurentei
În ultima vreme Consiliului Concurentei a fost implicat într-un număr destul de mare de angajamente, procedura prin care întreprinderile își asumă obligația de a își schimba comportamentul pe piață iar Consiliul Concurenței nu mai duce până la capăt investigația, care poate rezulta - sau nu - în identificarea unei fapte anticoncurențiale și în aplicarea unei amenzi.
Angajamentele sunt Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-21987998100326993462015-08-03T14:19:00.001+03:002015-08-03T14:19:42.886+03:00Is the road to hell paved with good intentions? Germany proposes a separate body for enforcing the competition rules in EUThe recent proposal by the highly influential German minister of finances Wolfgang Schauble to transfer the powers to enforce the competition rules embodied in the EU treaties from the European Commission to a separate body look fine, but just at the first sight.It is a challenging position but we must admit that the European Commission has an excellent record and that the influence of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-36747639764383611052015-06-19T12:07:00.002+03:002015-06-19T12:07:56.031+03:00Retail price fixing - when it is and when it is not (the case of Germany and Romania)
At the end of 2014 the Romanian Competition Council sanctioned Metro, Selgros, Mega Image (Delhaize) and almost two dozens of their suppliers (Danone and Pepsi, among them) for agreeing that promotions supported and organized in cooperation, under the condition of exclusivity, were deemed to constitute nothing else than ”indirect” fixing of the price the same suppliers offered to competing Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-63276053369709641742015-04-24T08:07:00.002+03:002015-04-24T08:39:47.143+03:00Emanuela Matei on ”Micula” Case
With this post, State of Competition Blog inaugurates a new section, dedicated to Guest Contributions, as I wish to make this blog a larger arena for ideas and debates of current interest in the vast and agitated world of the competition.
There is competition within the competition world? We think there is, so any comments and further contributions are welcomed.
I confine myself to onlyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-72984728744374356202015-04-15T17:07:00.001+03:002015-04-20T11:51:46.212+03:00Google accusations - competition law as the theory of everything - UPDATED
UPDATE: where is the harm? Even competitors who complain about its behavior are thriving because of Google, inter alia, and their tears are very likely to be crocodile tears (see Expedia, for instance) - http://googleblog.blogspot.mx
By pressing long-announced accusations on Google for an alleged abuse of dominant position in the general internet search market, the European Commission is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-822886934685381422015-03-28T19:09:00.000+02:002015-03-29T23:49:30.610+03:00Nu exista niciun drept legal la fumat!
…Dar
exista dreptul la viață și dreptul la sănătate ale tuturor: fumători sau nefumători.
Am
decis să scriu acest material dupa ce am auzit, repetat de mai multe ori, de
catre reprezentanții și susținătorii industriei tutunului, că fumătorii ar fi
titularii unui adevărat drept. Acesta ar include atât libertatea fumătorului de
a-și practica acest tip de comportament, cât și dreptul săuAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-90644707521843067142015-03-24T23:09:00.000+02:002015-03-24T23:09:06.280+02:00Cum va ajunge din nou România în coada Europei, din iunie 2015
Articol publicat pe www.contributors.ro - http://www.contributors.ro/administratie/cum-va-ajunge-din-nou-romania-in-coada-europei-din-iunie-2015/ la data de 22 martie 2015.
Aș fi vrut să încep
acest material cu fraza ”ca la noi la nimeni” dar aceasta a devenit atât de
utilizată încât am început să ne obișnuim (să ne resemnăm) cu ea. Deși în acest
cadru, fraza chiar se potrivește: din 17 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-1739486204746393532015-02-11T11:55:00.000+02:002015-02-11T14:36:48.916+02:00Do not belive in miracles, especially those promised by cartelists
Everybody - well, almost everybody - in the world today seems to enjoy the lower prices for oil. After a long winter, spring seems to finally come to our land and into our homes (OK, also in our cars).
But is it really spring and, if so, it is here to stay? Not really.
The prices for the most needed commodity which is represented by oil is determined, as a for other Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-18272105299998504302015-01-06T14:37:00.001+02:002015-01-07T16:48:12.157+02:00Starea concurentei in 2015
Clasamentul
Global Competitiveness Report pentru 2014-2015, realizat de catre Global
Economic Forum plaseaza Romania pe o pozitie buna – cea mai
buna de pana acum: locul 59 din 144 de state analizate, ceea ce implica
apartenenta Romaniei la un grup de state din care mai fac parte Albania, Egipt,
Georgia, Serbia si chiar Ucraina. Chiar daca este vorba de cea mai buna
pozitionare a Romaniei Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-23717626590008437812014-12-22T20:48:00.001+02:002014-12-22T20:48:32.638+02:00Fundamentul obligatoriu al "Romaniei lucrului bine făcut": o economie de piata puternica
http://www.contributors.ro/economie/romania-lucrului-bine-facut-nu-poate-fi-bine-facuta-decat-pe-o-baza-economica-solida/
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-12878646129703870172014-12-11T15:15:00.002+02:002014-12-11T15:15:20.196+02:00Scurte consideratii cu privire la recentele modificari ale Legii concurentei prin OUG nr.77/2014
Prima observatie este ca autoritatea de concurenta persistă în lipsa de transparență față de partenerii instituționali (”stakeholders”), așa că OUG 77/2014 a fost adoptată de guvern pe 3 decembrie 2014 în cea mai mare discreție. OUG 77/2014 a fost publicată în Monitorul Oficial al României pe 10 decembrie 2014 și modifică atât Legea concurentei nr.21/1996 cat si procedurile nationale in materiaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-69442889386106609272014-11-24T18:25:00.001+02:002014-12-17T20:18:33.312+02:00Investigațiile din retail și standardul de probă în ceea ce privește încălcările per se
Așa cum am promis, revin cu câteva considerații referitoare la activitatea Consiliului Concurenței în zona de comerț de retail cu produse alimentare.
Există multe voci și opinii avizate care afirmă că investigațiile recente, care privesc pe Cora, Carrefour, Auchan și Kaufland ar fi de fapt o reacție târzie a autorității publice față de faptul că aceasta a avut în vedere până acum doar Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-77486419171721703032014-11-20T13:02:00.000+02:002014-11-20T13:37:19.257+02:00The Second Decentralisation of Competition Law—A Must for an Orderly Administration of Justice in the EU - in Global Competition Litigation Review - November 2014
I published an article in Global Competition Litigation Review, together with Emanuela Matei, which suggests that a second de-centra(GCLR)lisation of the EU competition law is necessary soon, in order to ensure the end of tensions between the private and the public enforcement and, at the end of the day, an efficient and pro-business enforcement of the competition rules overall.
You may findAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-2567108577960756962014-11-19T22:58:00.002+02:002014-11-19T22:58:31.386+02:00OECD about the competition issues in the distribution of pharma products - from February 2014
http://www.oecd.org/daf/competition/competition-distribution-pharmaceuticals.htm
Key findings from the discussion include:
Policy-makers and enforcers need to understand the distinctive economic features of the pharmaceuticals sector thoroughly to be able to intervene in this sector.
Better enforcement of regulation and of competition law, more consumer information, and greater Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419069543968414.post-52971557540502940132014-11-13T23:24:00.004+02:002014-11-24T18:20:49.584+02:00Noua investigație privind posibile fapte anti-concurențiale pe piața de retail alimentar
Deși detaliile disponibile public sunt puține, investigația declanșată recent asupra Auchan, Cora, Carrefour și Kaufland pare să fie pe aceleași coordonate ca și investigația mai veche, cu privire la Metro, Selgros, Mega Image și unii distribuitori ai acestora.
Cu privire la această din urmă investigație, asupra căreia Consiliul Concurenței se va pronunța în curând, au existat acuzații de Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326093989275297326noreply@blogger.com0