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Pricing Algorithms & Competition Law: How to think optimally the European competition law framework for pricing algorithms?
Resume: Pricing algorithms are increasingly used as a new tool by businesses to respond to an old problem of economic theory: setting the right price on the market for a given product. If such algorithms can have multiple benefits for the consumer and the market, they...
Price-fixing agreement in the online sale of high-end tea: the French Competition Authority fines Dammann Frères
Summary: Hot tea! In decision 20-D-20 from December 3rd, 2020, the French Competition Authority found Dammann Frères guilty of price-fixing practices in the online resale of its products by distributors. In the same decision, the Authority also rejected the complaint...
Is Article 101 TFEU a suitable and sufficiently effective instrument to address structural competition problems?
Summary:This paper reflects on two key issues: whether Article 101 TFEU is suitable and effective in addressing structural competition problems, and the role ex-ante regulation could play. The author asserts that ex-ante regulation in the form of the NCT, combined...
The French Cour de cassation states that the Polynesian Competition Authority is a jurisdiction
Resume: Is the Polynesian Competition Authority a jurisdiction? This is the question that the French Cour de cassation had to answer. In case n° 19-13.775, on 4 June 2020, the Cour de cassation held that the Polynesian Competition Authority is a judicial Authority. To...
The French report on Digital Platforms: The birth of an ex ante regulation
To quote this paper: Tom Drivot, “The French report on Digital Platforms: the birth of an ex ante regulation”, Competition Forum - French Insights, 2020, art. n° 0001, https://www.competition-forum.com/ " Online platforms have taken a central place in our lives, our...
Towards New Tools in Competition Law: Some legal and economic considerations
Summary:The treatment of digital platforms by competition laws is the subject of numerous reflections in the economic and legal literatures as well as in the sphere of public policy. The two preliminary impact assessments issued by the Commission, the “New Competition...
On the study “Restoring Balance to Digital Competition – Sensible Rules, Effective Enforcement”: Interview with Rupprecht Podszun
Resume: On September 29, 2020, Philip Marsden[1]and Rupprecht Podszun[2] published a background study entitled "Restoring Balance to Digital Competition - Sensible Rules, Effective Enforcement" which makes several proposals to rebalance the power in the digital...
Defining markets in a new age: Save the relevant market now!
Resume. In a speech entitled “Defining markets in a new age”, delivered at the conference organized by Chillin’ Competition in Brussels on December, 9, 2019, the European Commission’s Vice-President, Margrethe Vestager, announced the forthcoming revision of the...
The New Competition Tool: A Trojan Horse to win the war against liberty
To quote this paper: Maya-Salomé Garnier, “The New Competition Tool: A Trojan Horse to win the war against liberty”, Competition Forum, 2020, art. n° 0005, https://www.competition-forum.com/. The EU Commission initiated in June 2020 a consultation about a...
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