Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017
Benno Buehler1, Daniel Coublucq2, Cyril Hariton3
1Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission, MADO 17/051, 1049 Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract:
The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and state aids. This year's article provides first a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist's team and surveys the main achievements of the Directorate General for Competition over 2016/2017. The article then reviews the economic work undertaken in one merger case between Dow/DuPont, which raised specific issues related to innovation, as well as in an antitrust case on parity clauses related to Amazon e-books.
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