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		<title>Is the New EU Private Enforcement Draft Directive Too Little Too Late?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/is-the-new-eu-private-enforcement-draft-directive-too-little-too-late/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartels/Horizontal Agreements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Sebastian Peyer) After a decade of debate, consultation and guidance papers, DG Competition has finally released its draft Directive on actions for damages. It has been driven by the Commission’s desire to encourage private antitrust enforcement, currently deemed too low and mainly restricted to a small number of Member States, and the need to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=833&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Court of Justice’s Expedia ruling undermines the economic approach by eliminating the ‘de mimimis’ defence in object agreements</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/the-court-of-justices-expedia-ruling-undermines-the-economic-approach-by-eliminating-the-de-mimimis-defence-in-object-agreements/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/the-court-of-justices-expedia-ruling-undermines-the-economic-approach-by-eliminating-the-de-mimimis-defence-in-object-agreements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartels/Horizontal Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominant Firms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[by Pinar Akman] One of the most important holdings of the Court of Justice in recent times is buried in paragraph 37 of the 8-page long Expedia judgment, which surprisingly has had few competition lawyers shouting from the rooftops.[1] In essence, the Court has declared that any object agreement[2] which has an effect on trade [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=829&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the UK’s New Cartel Offence Contain a Devastating Flaw?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/does-the-uks-new-cartel-offence-contain-a-devastating-flaw/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/does-the-uks-new-cartel-offence-contain-a-devastating-flaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartels/Horizontal Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Coalition Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(by Peter Whelan) On 25 April 2013, after almost one year of making its way through Parliament, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill finally received Royal Assent.  The UK Cartel Offence will be reformed in a number of significant ways when this piece of legislation comes into force later in the year.[1] Unfortunately, a potentially [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=827&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Competition Law as a complement to Intellectual Property Law?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/competition-law-as-a-complement-to-intellectual-property-law/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/competition-law-as-a-complement-to-intellectual-property-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dominant Firms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(by Amelia Fletcher) The European Commission is currently consulting on proposed revisions to the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) and associated Guidelines. These documents provide legal rules and guidelines in relation to technology transfer agreements, otherwise known as IP licensing agreements. On 7th May, the Office of Fair Trading and the Intellectual Property Office held their first [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=820&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Competition concerns mean Lloyds should be required to float HBOS following failure to divest branches to the Co-op</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/competition-concerns-mean-lloyds-should-be-required-to-float-hbos-following-failure-to-divest-branches-to-the-co-op/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/competition-concerns-mean-lloyds-should-be-required-to-float-hbos-following-failure-to-divest-branches-to-the-co-op/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mergers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[by Bruce Lyons] It has just been announced that the sale of 632 Lloyds branches to the Cooperative Bank has fallen through.  Some people thought this would have created a competitive market structure in UK retail banking.  The lessons from research on divestitures by the US FTC, EU DG Competition and academics suggest otherwise.  In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=818&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monitor’s Advice to the OFT and the New Healthcare Regulation</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/monitors-advice-to-the-oft-and-the-new-healthcare-regulation/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/monitors-advice-to-the-oft-and-the-new-healthcare-regulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mergers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulated Industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Coalition Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(by Mary Guy)[1] On 11 February, Monitor (the UK’s independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts) published its advice to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) regarding the anticipated merger of Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (hereafter “the Dorset FT merger”). This is the first NHS [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=814&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has the UK opened the floodgates to private enforcement of competition law?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/has-the-uk-opened-the-floodgates-to-private-enforcement-of-competition-law/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/has-the-uk-opened-the-floodgates-to-private-enforcement-of-competition-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutions implementing competition policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Enforcement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(by Sebastian Peyer) Private antitrust enforcement is the least effective part of competition law in the UK. Yesterday, the government said what it intended to do about it. Its outline for a new regime of private actions in competition law followed a consultation on options for reform in 2012. It proposes fixes for a number [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=809&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Significance of China’s First Fine on an International Cartel</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/the-significance-of-chinas-first-fine-on-an-international-cartel/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/the-significance-of-chinas-first-fine-on-an-international-cartel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(by Andreas Stephan) On 4 January 2013, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced that CNY 353 million (around £35m) would be paid by six South Korean and Taiwanese manufacturers of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for price fixing during 2001-2006. Never before had China imposed a cartel fine on foreign firms. Indeed this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=806&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Pub Tenants need a Special Regulator to Adjudicate Contracts with Pub Owners?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/do-pub-tenants-need-a-special-regulator-to-adjudicate-contracts-with-pub-owners/</link>
		<comments>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/do-pub-tenants-need-a-special-regulator-to-adjudicate-contracts-with-pub-owners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(by Morten Hviid) On January 8th Business Secretary Vince Cable announced plans for an Independent Adjudicator to address unfair practices in the British Pub industry.  It will apply to rents and beer ties (exclusive purchasing agreements) between pub owners and their tenant publicans, but only if the former own at least 500 pubs (known as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=803&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Keep a Dog and Bark? The UK Government Replicates the Actions of its Independent Energy Regulator</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/why-keep-a-dog-and-bark-the-uk-government-replicates-the-actions-of-its-independent-energy-regulator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulated Industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Coalition Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(by Catherine Waddams) The Department of Energy and Climate Change yesterday published a discussion paper which virtually duplicates the consultation document published by Ofgem four weeks ago as part of its Retail Market Review (a few days ahead of the original schedule because of the prime minister’s surprise announcement that all consumers would be put [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9861001&#038;post=797&#038;subd=competitionpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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