Almost two decades after the 2009 Guidance Paper, the European Commission’s final Guidelines seek to bring together the case law developed by the EU Courts and translate it into a more structured framework for assessing exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings.
In the latest Competition & Antitrust newsletter by our member firm Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm, the firm examines what the Guidelines change – and what they do not – focusing on the Commission’s approach to dominance, legal presumptions, the role of the as-efficient-competitor test and the practical implications for dominant and potentially dominant businesses.