The UK Competition Commission has launched a 12-month enquiry into claims of profiteering by the UK’s biggest supermarket groups.
June / July 1999
- Regulators square off over international enforcement
- Microsoft trial set to resume
- McCain criticises FCC
- Toys ‘R’ Us settles with states, FTC appeal continues
- Shareholders approve Exxon/ Mobil
- Chevron/ Texaco seen as stalled
- AirTran to complain about Delta
- EU welcomes Coca-Cola’s climbdown on Cadbury- Schweppes
- EU to investigate Telenor/ Telia
- Italy’s antitrust authority investigates sports broadcasting
- Italy’s antitrust authority clears Mannesman/ Infostrada
- UK authority tackles ice cream
- JFTC OKs flat glass market
- Transatlantic competition department for Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells
- New Clifford Chance partner named
- Linklaters hires Gide partner
- Jeantet goes to London
- Merger for European Six
- Houthoff Buruma
- Italian mergers
- Boesebeck Droste gains competition partner
- Coudert in Frankfurt
- Freshfields’ new partners
- Reshuffle at London Economics
- Brussels telecoms
- Advice for future head of Competition
- AT&T/ MediaOne
- IBM/ ATT
- Japan Telecom joint venture
- DoJ brings antitrust case against American Airlines
- Vitamin cartel
- BP Amoco/ Arco
- Inquiry into UK new car market
- Supermarket enquiry
- Rhone-Poulenc/ Hoechst
- Aetna/ Prudential Life
- Coca-Cola/ Orangina
- Goodrich/ Coltec
- DaimlerChrysler price fixing probe
- Pearson Group's newspaper joint ventures
- Alstom/ ABB
- Maersk/ SCL
- Communication is the New World Order
- New era for EU telecoms
- ABA Spring Meeting
- Heated US Senate considers telecoms
- US telecom mergers placed under the regulatory microscope
- Competition Bureau advocacy in the Canadian telecoms sector
- Treviso conference praises Commission’s role
- An interview with Giuseppe Tesauro
- Antitrust searches for 'middle ground'
- US business gets its say on competition policy
- Argentina: YPF fined for anti-competitive pricing policy
- Australia: ACCC conducts public inquiries into the declaration of telecoms services
- Belgium: Reform of competition law leaves questions unanswered
- Canada: Bureau releases draft of Cooperating Parties Program
- Czech Republic: Government seeks to enhance telecoms competition with third mobile phone operator
- Denmark: Joint use of transmission infrastructure exempted
- EU: White Paper heralds major reform of competition enforcement rules
- Finland: Price conciliation clauses mean utility did not abuse its dominance
- France: Merger control cases under the aegis of the Conseil d’Etat
- Germany: New rules offer greater scope for conditional merger clearances
- Italy: Draft decree on postal market liberalisation falls short of the mark
- Malaysia: Communications and Multimedia Act first to promote competition
- Mexico: FCC guidelines on the use of indices in merger analysis paramount
- Netherlands: Competition Authority endorses PTT Post's charges for PO box services
- New Zealand: Debate over role of common law control of monopoly pricing
- Panama: Parties preparing pleadings in first competition case
- Romania: Competition Law faces privatisations
- Spain: Reform of merger control rules introduces mandatory regime
- Sweden: Rulings on cooperation between forestry companies
- Switzerland: Criteria for calculating failure to notify penalties
- Taiwan: Amendments to Fair Trade Law
- United Kingdom: OFT publishes first Competition Act guidelines
- USA: Fine for partner who wrongly certified HSR filing
- Venezuela: US soda ash producer guilty of abusing dominance
- Franchising: Franchising legislation in Asia takes its cue from US