Clifford Chance
Antitrust Review May - June 2011
15 July 2011
The Antitrust Review is a bi-monthly commentary on important issues in the antitrust arena, written by our Global Antitrust Practice lawyers. Headlines below from this issue:
European Union
- Commission publishes draft best practices for cooperation among EU national competition authorities.
- Commission imposes fines in detergents cartel settlement cases.
- General Court upholds Visa fine for refusing to admit Morgan Stanley to its network.
- Suez Environnement and Lyonnaise des Eaux fined for breach of seal.
- Commission opens investigations into hard disk drive mergers.
China
- MOFCOM grants conditional clearance in Russian potash merger case.
- NDRC fines Unilever following price rises.
Czech Republic
- Czech Competition Office re-imposes cartel fine.
France
- French Competition Authority issues antitrust fining notice.
Germany
- Fuel sector inquiry in the German petrol station sector.
Poland
- Resale price maintenance commitments accepted.
Romania
- Romanian Competition Council accepts commitments.
Spain
- CNC opens proceedings against Telecinco.
United Kingdom
- OFT issues abuse of dominance decision in Reckitt Benckiser case.
- OFT announces next steps in audit market.
- OFT decides not to appeal CAT judgments in construction cases.
