Competition & Antitrust Review 2006 - A Comparison of Merger Remedies in the US and the EU.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c32362) has announced the addition of The Competition & Antitrust Review 2006 to their offering.

The 4th edition of the Competition & Antitrust Review 2006 features a foreword by the European Commissioner for Competition- Neelie Kroes, looking back over her first year in office, and to the future.

"I was pleased to be asked to introduce this Competition and Antitrust Review 2006. After one year in office as European Commissioner for competition, this is a good time to take stock of what has been achieved so far in antitrust and mergers, and to look forward to the challenges and opportunities in these fields facing the European Commission in 2006 and beyond.

The key priorities I have set for my mandate are shaped by the EU's Lisbon Agenda for growth and jobs. The EU Member States have committed to an ambitious programme of reforms at national and European level, in order to make the EU the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. One of the ways in which the European Commission can contribute to this objective is through its competition policy." by Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition.

The publication looks at the abuse of dominance, new merger remedies, state aid and the economics of competition and antitrust as well as over 25 reviews on specific country laws including countries such as the US, Canada, Sweden, Turkey, France, China, Japan, Finland, Korea, Switzerland, Hungary, Ireland, Denmark, Argentina, Norway, Germany, Austria, Colombia, Israel, and Holland.

Also there are over 45 statements from the members of the International Competition Network, introduced by the president of the ICN, Dr Ulf Boge.

Topics covered include:

--A comparison of merger remedies in the US and the EU

--EU state aid reform

--Jurisdiction issues in international cartel litigation: a Canadian perspective

--Looking ahead and reasoning back: the international focus on merger remedies

--Reconciling intellectual property and antitrust

--The economics of exclusionary abuse

--The EU reviews its rules on abuse of dominance

--The International Competition Network. Work in progress - from Seoul to Bonn, from Bonn to Cape Town 

Country Reviews

--Argentina: The CNDC has an active year

--Austrian competition law along the lines of the EU regime

--The new antitrust regime in China

--Developments and perspectives in Colombian competition law

--A special Danish approach to rebates - general outline and recent developments

--Recent developments in Finnish competition law

- Recent developments in the merger control regulations in France

-- - New developments in German Competition Law

--Novelties in the Hungarian Competition Act

--Criminal trials and beef rationalisation judgments - 2006 will be interesting in Irish competition law 

--Antitrust law in Israel - an overview

--Italian competition and antitrust law 

--Amendments to the Antimonopoly Law of Japan in 2005

--Korea's merger notification procedures updated

--Expected reform of merger control in the Netherlands

--Competition issues in Norway - law vs. politics

--Swedish competition law - update on case-law and legislation

--Switzerland's ACart - the grace period is over

--Significant changes to Turkish competition law are underway

--Coordinated effects analysis in recent US merger enforcement actions

Contributors

--Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition

--AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen

--Binder Grosswang Attorneys-at-Law

--Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP 

--Chiomenti Studio Legale

--Deloitte & Touche LLP

--Esguerra, Gamba, Barrera, Arriaga, Miranda, Piquero, Gonzalez y Jaramillo S.A.

--Fischer Behar Chen Well Orion & Co.

--Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

--Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

--G. BREUER

--Gide Loyrette Nouel

--Hogan & Hartson LLP

--Homburger

--Kvale & Co

--Mannheimer Swartling

--Matheson Ormsby Prentice

--Nabarro Nathanson

--Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

--Paksoy & Co

--Plesner Svane Gr0nborg

--SJ Berwin LLP

--Szecskay - Attorneys at Law

--Thelen Reid & Priest LLP

--Waselius & Wist

--Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

--Yoon & Yang

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