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The regulatory breakthrough of competition law: definitions and worries / Mariateresa Maggiolino -- Anti-anti regulation: the supplanting of industry regulators with competition agencies and how antitrust suffers as a result / Adi Ayal -- (Re-)joining the regulatory fold : problem-solving innovations in competition enforcement / Yane Svetiev -- New powers - new vulnerabilities : a critical analysis of market inquiries performed by competition authorities / Tamar Indig and Michal S. Gal -- New frontiers for competition advocacy and the potential role of competition impact assessment / Nicoletta Rangone -- A reassessment of the relationship between competition law and sector-specific regulation / Mario Siragusa and Fausto Caronna -- Regulatory approach to competition law in the practice of the polish competition authority - a critical assessment / Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk -- Enforcement of competition rules in regulated industries: abuse-of-dominance practices in the new EU member states, candidate countries and potential candidates / Alexandr Svetlicinii and Marco Botta -- From competition law to sector-specific regulation in internet markets : a critical assessment of a possible structural change / Rolf H. Weber -- The regulatory approach in competition law enforcement for innovation-intensive industries: the case of broadband access regulation in Japan / Toshiaki Takigawa -- Abuses of information and informational remedies: rethinking exchange of information under competition law / Fabiana Di Porto -- Competition law as an instrument of IP regulation? the case of strategic patent filings / Emanuela Arezzo -- Competition law as the limit to standard-setting / Björn Lundqvist

Whish and Bailey's 'Competition Law' is the definitive textbook on this subject. An authoritative treatment of competition law is paired with an easy-to-follow writing style to make this comprehensive guide essential reading for law students, practitioners, and officials. The authors explain the purpose of competition policy, introduce the reader to key concepts and techniques in competition law, and provide insights into the numerous issues that arise when analysing market behaviour. Describing the law in its economic and market context, they particularly consider the competition law implications of business phenomena such as distribution agreements, licences of intellectual property rights, cartels, joint ventures, and mergers. The book assimilates a wide variety of resources, including judgments, decisions, guidelines, and periodical literature.

The period under review (January 2010 – June 2012) has been a time of consolidation (or exhaustion) for the Union generally, as the Lisbon changes are allowed to bed in. The competition sphere is no exception. There has been limited initiative, certainly nothing ambitious to come out of the Commission over the period. At the same time a new Commission took up office—three months late, and by a little-remarked constitutional sleight of hand1—in 2010, and with it came a new Commissioner for Competition (Mr Almunia) and with him a new Director-General of DG Competition (Mr Italianer—Dutch notwithstanding the name), which event sometimes, but not always, marks a reorientation of Union competition policy. Both are economists which, again, may or may not influence the direction of policy. At the same time the Union has been buffeted by a financial crisis not wholly of its own making in which the competition rules must have a significant role to play.