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Air Transport - The Law and Regulation	06-10-08
Richard Venables, William Morton and Tim Murray
In the United Kingdom, the secretary of state for transport, in accordance with the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (the Act) has the general duty of: ‘Organising, carrying out and encouraging measures for the development of civil aviation, for the designing, development and production of civil aircraft, for the promotion of safety and efficiency in the use thereof and for research into questions relating to air navigation’. ...
High Court holds that collective selling and exclusive licensing of media rights by racecourses is not anti-competitive	29-09-08
Richard Eccles
The High Court has recently dismissed a claim by a betting industry body and four British bookmakers that arrangements between a number of British racecourses for collective and closed selling of media rights to Amalgamated Racing Ltd ...
First criminal cartel convictions under the Enterprise Act	29-09-08
Louise Banér
The OFT has recently announced the first ever convictions for cartel offences under the Enterprise Act 2002. Almost five years after the introduction of criminal sanctions for cartel activities, three UK businessmen have been sentenced to imprisonment for periods of between two and a half and three years ...
Court of Appeal dismisses Dŵr Cymru appeal against the CAT judgment	29-09-08
Richard Eccles
On 22 May 2008 the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal brought by Dŵr Cymru Cyfyngedig (“Dŵr Cymru”) against the Competition Appeals Tribunal judgments in the Albion Water v Water Services Regulation case (Ofwat) ...
BAA to sell Gatwick airport following Competition Commission’s preliminary report	29-09-08
Jeremy Robinson
Within a month of the publication of the Competition Commission’s provisional findings report, BAA has announced that Gatwick Airport is for sale. The Competition Commission’s BAA Airports Market investigation report, published on 20 August 2008, had provisionally found that there were competition problems at BAA’s UK airports, and was consulting on remedies, which included selling two out of three of BAA’s London airports i.e. Stansted, Gatwick and Heathrow ...
The activities of the Swedish collecting society, ALIS, are held not covered by exemption in Article 81(3) of the EC Treaty and its Rights holders’ Association Agreements are declared void by Stockholm District Court	29-09-08
Henrik Nilsson and Josephine Tessmar
The Administration of Literary Rights in Sweden (ALIS) is a collecting society established in 1995, representing approximately 2,500 writers most of which are organised by one of the Swedish Writers' Union (SFF), the Swedish Union of Journalists (SJF), the Swedish Playwrights' Union (SDF) or the Swedish Association for Educational Writers (SLFF). ALIS’ stated purpose is to protect dramatists, authors, translators and journalists’ copyright concerns. ALIS acts according to either a copyright agreement between each respective interest organisation and right holder or through a direct agreement with ALIS regarding the copyright administration of the rights holder’s published piece ...
The Swedish Market Court finds Volvo and Renault car retailers’ cooperation to be illegal concerted practice	29-09-08
Henrik Nilsson and Josephine Tessmar
In November 2002 a dealer in Volvo and Renault cars sent an e-mail to seven competitors. He suggested in the message that they should add SEK 3,000 to Volvo’s recommended price “as usual”. The e-mail went astray and ended up published in Dagens Industri, Sweden’s largest business newspaper. After the Swedish Competition Authority (‘SCA’) brought legal action, the Stockholm District Court held in June 2006 that the collaboration should be considered to be a concerted practice. However, the effect on competition was not substantial enough to be illegal ...
Cooperation between the EC and different NCAs to investigate cosmetic manufacturers	29-09-08
Antonio Creus
Cosmetic manufacturers had a difficult start to the summer of 2008. From 17 to 19 July 2008 the European Commission along with several National Competition Authorities carried out investigations at the European offices of the largest cosmetics manufacturers, such as Sara Lee, Henkel, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever and Procter & Gamble, amongst others ...
NMa amends decision on Expedited processing of concentration cases	29-09-08
Pauline Kuipers
The Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa) revised its policy on the expedited processing of concentration cases, i.e. where it does not publish the detailed reasons behind a decision. Market shares of the parties concerned in the merger no longer determine whether the case qualifies for expedited processing. The NMa has amended the decision on Expedited processing of concentration cases to reflect its new policy ...
Collecting societies fight each other in Dutch court following Commission’s CISAC decision	29-09-08
Pauline Kuipers
On 19 August 2008 the District Court in Haarlem handed down a preliminary injunction in a case between the collecting societies PRS (UK) and Buma (NL). PRS had sought the injunction to prevent Buma from continuing to breach its contract of representation with PRS by granting multi-territorial licences for online use of the PRS repertoire outside The Netherlands thereby causing licensees to infringe the copyrights of PRS’ members ...

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