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Würzburg Winter School 2021 – Debriefing

16. December 2021 Gast Comments 3 comments

Mit internationalem Flair gab es „digitales Kartellrecht“ pur als Hauptgang und Würzburger Wein als Nachspeise – Doktorand Florian Heimann erlebte bei der Würzburger Winter School 2021 ein besonderes Doktorandenseminar. „Do not read it all“. Ein Aufruf weniger zu lesen? Wann bekommt man als Nachwuchswissenschaftler schon einmal solch einen Tipp von einem Hochschullehrer? Dies war nur einer von vielen bemerkenswerten Aspekten eines außergewöhnlichen Doktorandenseminars an der Universität Würzburg. Dort empfingen Florian Bien und Toker Doganoglu ihre Kollegen David Bosco, Eckart Bueren, Frédéric Marty und…

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eSports – Regulating Aspiring Gatekeepers?

7. December 2021 Gast Comments 0 Comment

“Certainly, the Commission and national authorities cannot regulate every sector, so what is the advantage of regulating the eSports sector?” Fabian Ziermann on the need to look at the competitive issues of eSports ecosystems.

Becoming the DMA: The Parliament’s Compromise (for now)

2. November 2021 D'Kart Comments 0 Comment

Writing about the DMA means jumping on a passing train (with a parachute). The draft Regulation is in constant flow: The Commission’s first serve was shelled with 1199 amendments proposed to Andreas Schwab, the Rapporteur for the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) by his colleagues. Once Parliament agrees on a compromise text, the trilogue negotiations with the Commission and the Council will start. The IMCO’s compromise text of Oct. 3 (hereinafter Compromise Amendments) was…

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Bundeskartellamt in action

25. June 2021 Philipp Offergeld Comments 0 Comment

On 23 June 2021, the Bundeskartellamt published its activity report for the years 2019/2020 and presented it at an online press conference. But there is also “explosive” news from the European Competition Network (ECN): The antitrust authorities of the member states demand in a paper to be involved in the enforcement of the DMA. Philipp Offergeld gives an overview of both papers. Every two years the Bundeskartellamt reports to the German Bundestag, the Parliament, on its activities in the previous…

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The politization of antitrust

15. June 2021 Gast Comments 0 Comment

Antitrust has arguably become increasingly political in recent years. Tobias Pukropski provides an overview of the main developments at EU-level and in Germany, and of their practical implications. A tale of hipsters, fairness, sustainability, and Germans in Chinese trains. Once upon a time… …antitrust enforcement was untouched by political considerations. All that mattered was the rule of law, applied without regard to political or policy considerations or to external circumstance. Really? Sounds like a fairy-tale. Well, that probably is a…

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The DMA after the Schwab-Report

4. June 2021 Philipp Offergeld Comments 1 comment

After the European Commission published a proposal for a “Digital Markets Act” (DMA) at the end of last year, the rapporteur of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Dr. Andreas Schwab, has now dealt with the matter – in accordance with the legislative procedure. Philipp Offergeld reports on the essential changes proposed by “Mr. Competition”, which are quite something. This week we received the Draft Report from the European Parliament by Andreas Schwab, who as a…

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