Competition Policy Newsletter | Number 2 (2010)

Contents:

Antitrust

• Swedish Interconnector case /Improving electricity cross-border trade by Philippe Chauve, Elzbieta Glowicka, Martin Godfried, Edouard Leduc and Stefan Siebert
• The New Block Exemption Regulation for the Insurance Sector by Eithne McCarthy and Laura Stefanescu
• The EDF long term contracts case: addressing foreclosure for the long term benefit of industrial customers by Nicolas Bessot, Maciej Ciszewski, Augustijn van Haasteren
• Vertical Agreements: New Competition Rules for the Next Decade by Magdalena Brenning-Louko, Andrei Gurin, Luc Peeperkorn and Katja Viertiö

Mergers 

• Oracle/Sun Microsystems: The challenge of reviewing a merger involving open source software by Carl-Christian Buhr, Sabine Crome, Adrian Lübbert, Vera Pozzato, Yvonne Simon, Robert Thomas
• Of spectrum and Radio Access Networks: the T-Mobile/Orange joint venture in the UK by Jocelyn Guitton, Boryana Hristova, Vera Pozzato
• Merger: main developments between 1 January and 30 April 2010 by John Gatti
• The Microsoft / Yahoo! Search Business case by Teresa Vecchi, Jerome Vidal and Viveca Fallenius
• Economic background of the Microsoft/Yahoo! case by Andrea Amelio and Dimitrios Magos

State Aid 

• State Aid and Public Funding for Universities and other Research Organisations by Bernhard von Wendland
• The Dexia restructuring decision by Yassine Boudghene, Laurent Le Mouël, Martin Löffler, Sandrine Scheller, Guillaume Schwall
• State aid: main developments between 1 January and 30 April 2010 by Koen Van de Casteele

Information section

• Organigram of the Competition Directorate-General
• Documents
• Speeches
• Press-releases and Memos
• Publications
• Competition cases covered in this issue

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source