Jacquelyn MacLennan, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

Anticompetitive agreements, Competition policy, European Commission, HBER, Horizontal

EU Horizontal Rules Under Review – European Commission Publishes Staff Working Document

Jacquelyn MacLennan, Strati Sakellariou-Witt, Tilman Kuhn (White & Case) and Peter Citron (Editor) (White & Case, Belgium)/May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 /Leave a comment

On 6 May 2021, the European Commission (“Commission”) published a staff working document (“SWD”) on its evaluation of the horizontal block exemption regulations on research & development and specialisation agreements (“H-BERs”) and the horizontal guidelines. The SWD is accompanied by an evaluation study, commissioned to provide qualitative and quantitative evidence to support the Commission’s evaluation. The findings show…

Digital competition, European Commission, European Union, Ex ante regulation, Market investigations, Structural competition problems

The European Commission eyes the addition of a market investigation tool to its 60-year-old toolbox – but is it a chisel or a sledgehammer?

Assimakis Komninos, Mark Powell, Marc Israel, James Killick, Jacquelyn MacLennan, Kate Kelliher (White & Case)/June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 /Leave a comment

On 2 June 2020, the European Commission published its roadmap on the possible introduction of a ‘new competition tool’ that would allow it to initiate market investigations into perceived structural competition problems, with the ability to impose market-wide remedies on companies. The proposal has obvious parallels to the market investigation tools already in place in…