The ongoing process of modernization of the EU Competition policy has already had significant effects in most areas from both a procedural and substantive point of view.

The importance of economic analysis that the Commission necessarily had to develop to handle mergers has now permeated entirely the other areas of competition policy, and most notably vertical restraints.

Entirely? Well, not entirely! One small group of indomitable lawyers still holds out against economic analysis from the muddy trenches of Article 82. (more…)