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The European Commission (EC) and many other competition authorities around the world have long promoted confidentiality as an essential feature of their highly successful cartel leniency programs. The authorities seek to encour... more
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On September 14, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) issued its long-awaited decision in Akzo Nobel Chemicals and Akcros Chemicals v. Commission (Case C-550/07 P), confirming that communications betwee... more
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On August 19, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (together, the agencies) issued new Horizontal Merger Guidelines (the Guidelines) to explain and clarify their current enforcemen... more
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On May 27, the European Commission (the Commission) published its new Motor Vehicle Sector Block Exemption Regulation (MVBER) and supplementary Guidelines (the Guidelines). The revision of the rules relating to vertical agreeme... more
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On April 29, German Advocate General Juliane Kokott at the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice) handed down her opinion in Akzo v. European Commission (Case C-550/07 P). The opinion argues that the commun... more
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