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Guest blog: Ákos Réger - Sugar Cartel – Missing a Proper Assessment
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1. Introduction On 19 December last year, the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has put an end to a long investigation into a possible cartel infringement of the competition law by Hungarian sugar producers.[1] The investigation started after a...
Interview with me
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I am not really a guy who frequently gives interviews, so this invitation surprised me, but I was delighted to have the opportunity. My article was published in CPI here. A free version is available at SSRN here. The follow-up interview at CPI is a...
St.Gallen International Competition Law Forum ICF - April 4th and 5th 2013
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The 20th St.Gallen International Competition Law Forum ICF will be held on April 4th and 5th 2013. Once more, it will feature a thrilling selection of hot topics in current competition law issues and some of the most distinguished speakers in th...
Antitrust books on the net
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I am not sure all the books out in the space are intended to be there, but most of them are easy to find, so I suppose they are. Below you can find a list of full-text books about antitrust I found while browsing. (Please let me know if some links go...
The notion of undertaking–Company registers
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Advocate General JÄÄSKINEN analysed in the case C-138/11 Compass-Datenbank GmbH v Republik Österreich, whether, the Austrian State is acting as an ‘undertaking’ in the sense of Article 102 TFEU by prohibiting both re-use of data contained on i...
Advanced training of national judges in EU competition law
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The Competition Law Research Centre with the support of the European Commission is organising a training for national judges: Advanced training of national judges in EU competition law. The training is going to take place in Budapest between 7 to 9...
Interesting(?) development on jurisdictional issues in EU and Hungarian merger control
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About three weeks ago the Hungarian Metropolitan Tribunal obliged the Hungarian Competition Authority (Gazdasági Versenyhivatal (GVH)) to re-evaluate a merger decision. The interesting part comes here: the GVH decided that it has no jurisdiction sin...
Where is the Commission’s website?
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I was trying to confirm my registration to the conference organised by the European Commission, but the website is gone. Anonymous might be behind this? Update: It’s back again. (23:57) Update: It might have been a hacker attack... See.
The Economics of EC Competition Law
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I am sitting at the book introduction of the Hungarian translation of the book by Simon Bishop and Mike Walker. Congratulations to the translators, the GVH and of course the authors.
Why is competition law one of the most prosperous subjects in academia?
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... because you can become a prime minister. Mario Monti the freshly elected prime minister of Italy is the former European Commissioner responsible for competition policy. His short bio from Wikipedia can be read here. (By the way, Wikiped...
Why the question of minority shareholdings is important
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Recently a small group of swiss researchers conducted a study and came to the conclusion that 147 large multinationals "rule the world" and these undertakings, the core of multinationals, "can be seen as an economic "super-entity" that raises new imp...
Follow-on on the sports law conference - updates
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On Thursday and Friday we had a great conference on sport and law. The first day was dealing with competition law issues and I can say - confirmed by all the participants to whom I have spoken to - the conference was very interesting and a great succ...
Amended Competition Act in Hungary
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The Hungarian Competition Act (Act LVII of 1996 on the Prohibition of Unfair and Restrictive Market Practices (further on: HCA) was amended in July 2011 with Act Nr. CXV of 2011. The amendments touched upon the deadlines, changing the previous calcul...
