Newest Issue of Competition Policy Newsletter is Out

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

DG Competition has posted the newest issue of its Competition Policy Newsletter.

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 Laura Stefanescu and Eithne McCarthy
• The EDF long term contracts case: addressing foreclosure for the long term benefit of industrial customers
  by Nicolas Bessot, Maciej Ciszewski and 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 and Robert Thomas
• Of spectrum and radio access networks: the T-Mobile/Orange joint venture in the UK
  by Jocelyn Guitton, Boryana Hristova and Vera Pozzato
• Mergers: 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 and Guillaume Schwall
• State aid: main developments between 1 January and 30 April 2010
  by Koen Van de Casteele