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Index-based price setting mechanisms: dawn raids conducted by the EC

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • European Union
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  • May 17 2013

On Tuesday (European time), the European Commission (EC) conducted dawn raids on BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Norwegian oil and gas companyStatoil over

MOFCOM grants conditional clearance of GlencoreXstrata merger

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • China
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  • April 30 2013

On 16 April 2013, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) gave conditional approval to the GlencoreXstrata merger, two

Canadian Competition Bureau's new approach to upstream oil and gas mergers

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 18 2013

On May 10, 2013, the senior deputy commissioner at the Mergers Branch of the Competition Bureau (the Bureau) announced that the Bureau is changing

The EU's crude oil, refined oil products and biofuels investigation

  • Dentons
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 21 2013

On 14 May 2013, the European Commission confirmed that it had, that day, carried out unannounced inspections (aka “dawn raids”) on “several companies

Notas de competencia No. 3 2013

  • Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados
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  • Spain
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  • May 14 2013

Durante los dos últimos años la Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC) ha sancionado con fuertes multas a tres de las

Court issues first substantive ruling on cartel damages

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • May 23 2013

The East Netherlands District Court has ruled that ABB must compensate Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT for damages that it suffered as a result

Federutility Case C-26508 Court of Justice rules on right of member state to set gas prices

  • Matheson
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  • European Union
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  • July 14 2010

This case concerned a reference for a preliminary ruling from an Italian Court in the context of a dispute between a number of gas undertakings and the Autorità per l'energia electtrica e il gas (the "AEEG"

E-Newsletter Energy & Utilities Belgium and the Netherlands

  • NautaDutilh
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • February 4 2013

This Act of 12 July 2012 implements two EU directives which are part of the EU Third Energy Package: the Electricity Directive (200972EC) and the

Does ownership unbundling go a bridge too far for member states?

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 4 2007

On 10 January 2007, the European Commission published its final report on the energy sector competition inquiry with Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes announcing that it "will make uncomfortable reading for many energy companies"

Court deems electricity a "commodity" under the Robinson-Patman Act

  • McGuireWoods LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 25 2012

On June 4, a federal appeals court overturned a lower court decision dismissing the claims of electricity purchasers who alleged that an electricity provider had violated the Robinson-Patman Act which makes it unlawful for sellers "to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality" by paying rebates to certain large customers in exchange for the withdrawal by the large customers of their objections to the provider's proposed rate-stabilization plan filed with the state utility commission