Translation of "Wettbewerbsrechtliche prüfung" in English

The purpose of this chapter is to guide the competitive assessment of information exchange.

I would on principle have expected the Commission, as an advocate of cultural diversity and also a promoter of jobs in Europe, to take into account all the objectives of the European Treaties in its examination of the book pricing system from the point of view of competition law.

In response to strong stakeholder demand, the guidelines contain a new chapter setting out general principles for competition assessment of information exchange.

It is therefore considered as existing aid and its assessment is subject to a specific cooperation procedure between Sweden and the Commission.

The venture did not automatically qualify for review under the European Union’s Merger Regulation, but the Commission was asked to examine its impact on competition by France, Sweden and Germany.

The Commission's assessment shows that the combined market share of Air China and Cathay Pacific on the relevant routes between Asia and the EEA is limited, as the routes they operate are, to a large extent, complementary.

The assessment of the links between Chinese State-owned companies in the same sector relied on the same criteria as those applied for assessing mergers involving European State-owned companies.

Discussions took place on Competition DG premises and covered, among other things, jurisdictional issues, remedies procedures and issues of substance (the competition test) and procedure.

The competitive assessment of this transaction has shown that the operation neither creates nor strengthens a dominant position.

The Commission’s examination of the deal showed that the horizontal overlaps between the parties’ activities in the full fleet leasing and management services sector are limited in Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.

This new test allowed extending the Commission's review beyond the question of whether the transaction would place a firm in a dominant position, to covering other situations of unilateral anti-competitive use of market power.

The European Commission has revised its rules for the assessment of co-operation agreements between competitors, so called horizontal co-operation agreements.

Apart from the competition law test, we need additional criteria for the purposes of merger decisions, for example: firstly, the companies should give a binding commitment to preserving or raising the level of employment.

These guidelines provide additional guidance specific to the competition assessment of horizontal co-operation agreements.

The agreement is subject to review and approval of local trade commission authorities.

Within 45 working days after the Commission's referral, the competent authority of the Member State concerned shall inform the undertakings concerned of the result of the preliminary competition assessment and what further action, if any, it proposes to take.

Any Member State competent to examine the concentration under its national competition law may, within 15 working days of receiving the reasoned submission, express its disagreement as regards the request to refer the case.

In its assessment, the Commission may also consider in appropriate cases, on the basis of information available, whether there are realistic, effective and timely counterstrategies that competitors would be likely to deploy ;

In its assessment, the Commission may also consider in appropriate cases, on the basis of information available, whether there are realistic, effective and timely counterstrategies that competitors would be likely to deploy ;

In the assessment of the individual case the EFTA Surveillance Authority will take into account the time lapsed between the conclusion of the first and the second licence.

The perhaps most well-known example of this evolution is the European courts' interpretation of the Merger Regulation's competition test as applying to situations of collective dominance, in the judgments of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance in the Kali und Salz and Gencor cases.

Where all the Member States which would be competent to review the concentration under their national legislation on competition, or at least three such Member States, have requested the Commission to examine a concentration, the concentration shall be deemed to have a Community dimension and shall be notified to the Commission in accordance with Article 4.

In both cases the public purse would in fact be bearing a large part of the burden, which is what the review in the light of competition law is primarily concerned with.

Therefore, actual competition is in general more effective and will weigh more heavily in the assessment of a case than potential competition.