Standard of Judicial Review of Merger Decisions Concerning Oligopolistic Markets

• Authors: Jan Szczodrowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses the way in which standard of judicial review of the European Commission’s (EC) decisions concerning oligopolistic markets was exercised by EU judiciary. In the recent years we could observe an increasing role played by the GC and the ECJ in shaping the legal framework in which mergers are assessed. In fact, the EU judiciary has not only extended the previously narrow scope of the original merger regulation but it has also contributed significantly towards increasing the legal certainty by elaborating a reliable set of legal criteria for the assessment of oligopolistic markets, which also reflected the economic theory. The EU judiciary has also very often acted as a ‘filter’ to the novel theories introduced in the EC decisions. All of the aforementioned developments would not be possible without the high standard of judicial review exercised by EU courts and ‘special judicial techniques’ used by them.

FR

Cet article porte sur la manière dont le contrôle juridictionnel des décisions de la Commission Européenne relatives aux concentrations des entreprises sur les marchés oligopolistiques a été effectué par les juridictions européennes. Dans les dernières années, on pouvait observer l’accroissement de rôle du Tribunal et de la Cour dans le développement du cadre juridique dans lequel les concentrations sont évaluées. En réalité, la branche judiciaire de l’UE a élargi le champ d’application du règlement sur les concentrations. Ainsi, elle a également contribué considérablement a l’augmentation de la certitude juridique grâce aux développements des critères qui servent à évaluer les marchés oligopolistiques, ce qui reflet également les théories économiques. Les cours européennes ont fréquemment agie en tant qu’un ‘filtre’ des nouvelles théories qui ont été avancée par la Commission Européenne. Tous les développements en question ne serraient pas possible sans le niveau élevé de contrôle juridictionnel ainsi que ‘les techniques judiciaires spécifiques’ employées par les cours.

Keywords

EN

judicial review; merger vontrol; mergers; oligopolies; oligopolistic markets; Poland; Polish merger control; standard of judicial review; co –coordinated effects; non – coordinated effects

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 5(6)
• Pages: 261-288

Dates

published

2012-03-30

Contributors

author

Jan Szczodrowski

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Law and Administrative Science, Chair of European Law

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