scholarly journals Productos de lujo y distribución a través de plataformas de internet desde el Derecho Europeo de la Competencia (TJUE C-230/16, Asunto Coty) = Luxury products and distribution through internet platforms from the European Competition Law (ECJ C-230/16, Coty Case)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 663
Author(s):  
Alicia Arroyo Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
Competition Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
European Law ◽  
Cosmetic Products ◽  
Selective Distribution ◽  
On Line ◽  
Luxury Products ◽  
European Competition Law

Resumen: Este estudio analiza la jurisprudencia del TJUE referida a los acuerdos de distribución se­lectiva de productos cosméticos de lujo y la compatibilidad de la restricción de las ventas de esos produc­tos a través de plataformas de internet (on line) con el Derecho protector de la libre competencia de la UE. Se tiene en cuenta en particular la Sentencia de 6 de diciembre de 2017, Asunto Coty Germany GbmH c. Parfümerie Akzente GmbH, si bien se observa la jurisprudencia en general así como desde la recaída en el Asunto Metro hasta dicha sentencia. Tres cuestiones son destacadas: distribución selectiva y Derecho de la Competencia; la compatibilidad de la prohibición de comercializar en plataformas de internet –“amazon.de” es la plataforma concreta del Asunto Coty– y la interconexión con el Derecho de marcas.Palabras clave: distribución selectiva, plataformas de venta en internet, productos de lujo, Dere­cho de la Competencia, Asunto Coty.Abstract: This study analyzes EJC Case Law referring to the selective distribution agreements of luxury cosmetic products and the compatibility of the restriction of sales of these products through onli­ne platforms, under the perspective of Antitrust European Law. In particular, the Judgment of December 6, 2017, Coty Germany GbmH c. Parfümerie Akzente GmbH is considered, but also it is important to take into account the evolution from Metro Case to Coty. Three issues are highlighted: selective distri­bution and Competition Law, compatibility of the prohibition to market on internet platforms - “amazon.de” was the specific platform in Coty- Case and the interconnection with the Trademarks Law.Keywords: selective distribution, on line sales and platform bans, Antitrust Law, Coty Case.

scholarly journals Marketplaces Restrictions and Selective Distribution after Coty Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 241-284
Author(s):  
Patrycja Szot ◽  
Ana Amza
Keyword(s):  
Competition Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Luxury Good ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Selective Distribution ◽  
Price Comparison ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Eu Competition Law ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Eu

This article discusses the framework of selective distribution agreements within EU competition law following the Coty Germany case and the EU Commission’s 2017 E-commerce report. It argues that the judgment removed, in essence, the limitation of sales via online platforms from the ‘by object box’. In respect of luxury goods, the ban is considered not to infringe competition law at all. In this context, the article addresses one of the judgment’s key points: what constitutes a ‘luxury good’ and evaluates to what an extent this definition can be practically applied. The authors also embark on the conditions under which the restriction is considered proportionate (when applied to non-luxury goods) and point to the risk of divergent interpretations of platform bans across member states. To illustrate the latter, several examples are given from national case-law. The considerations are completed with a brief look at problematic restrictions on the use of price comparison tools.

scholarly journals Internet distribution of luxury products

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1751
Author(s):  
Ivana Kunda ◽  
Vlatka Butorac Malnar
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Selective Distribution ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Internet Sales ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Ip Law

Owing to its particular features, the market of luxury goods is a point of interest to lawyers as much as to other professions such as economists or sociologists. These features play an important role in legal regulation of the market. While the starting point is competition law, the assessment of anticompetitive conduct under Article 101 of the TFEU cannot be complete without resorting to intellectual property law policies and rules. With the rise of the importance of internet sales, novel issues have been put before the competition authorities and reviewing courts, such as legality of various types of online restrictions in the selective distribution systems. Employing a combined IP law and competition law approach to these issues, this paper offers insights and comments on EU case law, with primary focus on the recent CJEU judgment in Coty. The intricacies of the interplay among different competition law rules and exemptions is particularly evidenced in this case. However, limited by its fact-pattern, the Coty judgment may serve as a clarification about the deluxe competition law treatment only of certain online sale prohibitions within the SDSs, while there will certainly be continuing discussions and national case law developments on other internet related competition law restrictions awaiting further elucidations by the CJEU.

scholarly journals The Global Dominance of European Competition Law Over American Antitrust Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-766
Author(s):  
Anu Bradford ◽  
Adam Chilton ◽  
Katerina Linos ◽  
Alexander Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Competition Law ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
European Competition Law

scholarly journals Monopolization Standards in US Competition Law: Evolution and Evaluation

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-110
Author(s):  
Ivana Rakic
Keyword(s):  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Type I Error ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Type I ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Sherman Act ◽  
The Us ◽  
Economic Efficiencies

The aim of this article is to provide a short overview and analysis of the US antitrust law. Section 2 of the Sherman Act stipulates that it is unlawful to monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations. The article presents case law that reflects the evolution of monopolization standards and provides some interpretations of undertakings’ behavior that can be defined as monopolization. US practice shows that monopolization standards have changed several times, in accordance with the need to increasingly consider economic efficiencies and the consequences of making wrong decisions, which may lead to reduced innovation and other behaviors of undertakings that increase economic efficiency and improve competition, which is a type I error.

scholarly journals Aplicabilidad de un acuerdo de elección de foro a una reclamación de indemnización de daños por vulneración del Artículo 102 TFUE: el caso Apple Sales International (C-595/17) = Applicability of a jurisdiction agreement to a claim of damages by infringement of Article 102 TFEU: the Apple Sales International case (C-595/17)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 439
Author(s):  
Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca ◽  
Julia Suderow
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Private Enforcement ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
Damage Claims ◽  
The Will ◽  
European Competition Law ◽  
Abuse Of Dominance ◽  
Article 102 Tfeu

Resumen: La aplicación privada del derecho de la Competencia no se limita tan sólo a acciones de daños por infracciones del art. 101 TFUE, sino que también abarca las acciones follow on y stand alone contra los abusos de posición de dominio sancionados por el art. 102 TFUE. Se trata de acciones que tienen su origen en conductas unilaterales en las que las cláusulas de atribución de competencia juegan un papel esencial. El TJUE resuelve con la sentencia Ap-ple Sales ciertas dudas sobre el alcance de estas cláusulas si bien su respuesta genera nuevas cuestiones que podrán plantearse en futuros litigios. La voluntad de las partes y la proporcio-nalidad tendrán que seguir siendo los elementos sobre los que pivote la exclusividad del foro de sumisión expresa.Palabras clave: acciones para la indemnización de daños anticompetitivos, acciones autónomas, acciones de seguimiento, acuerdos de elección de foro, arbitraje, competencia judicial internacional, Daños, Derecho antitrust, Derecho europeo de la competencia, Unión Europea.Abstract: Private enforcement of Competition Law is not limited to cartel damage claims based on infringements of art. 101 TFUE. Follow on and Stand alone actions against the abuse of dominance sanctioned by art. 102 TFUE are also included. They are actions derived from unilateral conducts where jurisdiction agreements play an important role. In the ruling Apple Sales, the ECJ solves certain doubts about the scope of this type of clauses but its answer generates new questions that will be dealt in future disputes. The will of the parties as well as the proportionality will still be the basis of the exclusivity of the forum.Keywords: antitrust damages actions, stand-alone actions, follow-on actions, jurisdiction agreements, arbitration, jurisdiction, damages (Torts), Antitrust Law, European Competition Law, European Union.

scholarly journals The Global Dominance of European Competition Law Over American Antitrust Law

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anu Bradford ◽  
Adam S. Chilton ◽  
Katerina Linos ◽  
Alex Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Competition Law ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
European Competition Law

scholarly journals Derecho europeo, Derecho de la competencia y Derecho internacional privado: algunas cuestiones de transporte y competencia relativas a los observatorios de costes de caracter público

2015 ◽  
pp. 55-95
Author(s):  
Unai BELINTXON MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
European Law ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Common ◽  
Legal Security ◽  
The Impact ◽  
European Competition Law

LABURPENA: Ondorengo ikerketa honek errepide bidezko garraio sektorearen araudietan jasandako garapenaren, baita europar lehiakortasun Zuzenbideak sektore honetan duen eraginaren azterketa eta baloratze kritikoa du helburu. Ikuspuntu bikoitza duen analisi hau, teorikoa zein praktikoa, arau-bloke, garraio politika erkide, europar Zuzenbidearen eragin, errepide bidezko garraio merkatuak bizi duen enpresa-kontzentrazio, amaigabea den liberalizazio prozesu eta Europar Batasuneko Justizia Auzitegiaren ustiapen prezio minimoen inguruko azken erabakietan oinarritzen da. Sektore honetako ekintzaileen analisiari dagokionean, segurtasun juridikoaren helburua zein neurritan lortzen ari den aztertuko da. Edo aitzitik, arau ezberdinen arteko bateragarritasun arau argien gabeziak sor dezakeen ezjakintasuna, parte hartzen duten alde guztien intereserako kaltegarri dena, analizatuko da. RESUMEN: Esta reflexión tiene por objeto el análisis y valoración crítica de la evolución normativa experimentada en el sector del transporte por carretera y la incidencia del Derecho a la competencia europeo sobre este singular sector. El análisis se centra desde una doble perspectiva teórica y práctica, en el estudio de los bloques normativos en presencia, la política común de transportes, la repercusión del Derecho europeo, el proceso de concentración empresarial que está viviendo el mercado del trasporte por carretera, el inacabado proceso de liberalización, y los últimos pronunciamientos del TJUE sobre la fijación de costes mínimos de explotación. Desde la perspectiva de análisis de los operadores del sector se abordará en qué medida el objetivo de seguridad jurídica se está logrando o si por el contrario la ausencia de reglas claras de compatibilidad entre esas diversas normas acaba generando incertidumbres que perjudican a todo el elenco de intereses en presencia. ABSTRACT: The aim of this research is to analyze and evaluate the regulations development in carriage by road sector and the impact of European Competition law in this commercial sector. In particular, the research will focus on analyzing the interaction between normative blocks (European Law, national law and the conventional sources), the common transport policy, the impact of European law, concentration process in road sector, the unfinished process of liberalization and the recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. From the operators sector’s point of view, it will tackle that when the aim of the legal security is achieving or on the contrary the absence of the compatibility of the rules between those deserve rules finishes producing doubts that harm all the interests of the present cast.

scholarly journals Extending the Principle of Economic Continuity to Private Enforcement of Competition Law. What Lies Ahead for Corporate Restructuring and Civil Damages Proceedings after Skanska? Case Comment to the Judgement of the Court of Justice of 14 March 2019 Skanska Industrial Solutions and others (Case C-724/17)

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 259-268
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Fasoula
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Corporate Restructuring ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Private Enforcement ◽  
Competition Authority ◽  
European Law ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
European Competition Law

In the tradition of civil law Member States, civil liability issues are linked to the legal entity that caused a damage, with the exception of lifting the corporate veil. The Finnish competition authority imposed fines to Finnish companies that participated in an asphalt cartel. Following that decision, an action for damages was lodged for infringement of Article 101 TFEU that ultimately led to the Skanska ruling. The European judge completes and specifies some ambiguities of the Damages Directive. From a holistic point of view of the objective pursued by both public and private enforcement of European competition law rules, the economic entity of an ‘undertaking’, as it is defined by European law rather than the legal entity as it is defined by national law, must be a substantive criterion, and not a procedural one, in civil liability procedures before national courts awarding damages for European law infringements. Introducing the principle of economic continuity to national civil liability procedures is a creeping harmonisation of national civil law in order to serve the effectiveness of European competition law. The scope of Skanska could also extent to Article 102 TFEU infringements. Corporate restructuring must follow from now on a lengthy and complex due diligence as the acquirers could be liable for their predecessors’ infringements in any Member State.

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