Law 2101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sherman Antitrust Act, Soft Law, De Minimis

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European competition law - essentials of eu competition law. Essentials: what is competition? perspective: behaviour of economic operators rivalry: persons might hate it but it can produce results. >we dislike monopoly power: why competition? monopolist gains then you could say sosciety as a whole is still the of the monopolist. ( they loss is) >monopolies tend to raise prices but if the with a monopoly. Facebook/whatsapp case only to the extent that it is likely to strengthen facebook"s position in the online advertising market or in any sub-segments thereof. Any privacy-related concerns flowing from the increased concentration of data within the control of facebook as a result of the. During its investigation, the commission has been petitioned through emails (50000), importance, they cannot form the basis of a merger assessment. The commission"s mandate under the european merger control rules is to assess the merger solely from a competition perspective.