Structural competition problems

Competition enforcement, Ex ante regulation, Foreign direct investment, Fundamental rights, Hungary, Industrial policy, OECD, Regulation, Relative Market Power, Structural competition problems

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Is competition law fit for purpose? Do we need better tools to make markets fair? How far should government go to ‘fix’ market structures? It’s impossible to attend an antitrust conference these days without discussing these questions under the umbrella of competition & industrial policy. From decades of broad consensus championing competitive neutrality and ‘letting…

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

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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…