In this issue: This issue, organized by guest editor Paul Lugard, takes an indepth look at the pending revision of the EU competition rules on horizontal cooperation agreements. Paul leads…

Paul Lugard, Sep 15, 2010 It is no wonder that the revisions of the block exemption regulations for research and development agreements and specialization agreements, as well as the changes…

Axel Gutermuth, Sep 15, 2010 As part of the pending revision of the EU competition rules on horizontal cooperation agreements, the EU Commission has proposed significant amendments to the two…

Andreas Reindl, Sep 15, 2010 The European Commission’s draft guidelines on horizontal agreements (the “Draft Guidelines”) feature as one of its main innovations a new chapter on information exchanges among…

Julia Holtz, Tero Louko, Sep 15, 2010 This brief commentary focuses on the section on Standardization Agreements in the Draft Guidelines (mainly paragraphs 269 – 290). While it is important…

Anne Layne-Farrar, Jorge Padilla, Sep 15, 2010 This brief paper sets out our comments on Section 7 of the Draft Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the TFEU…

Richard Taffet, Sep 15, 2010 The European Commission’s Draft Guidelines on the Application of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to Horizontal Co-Operation Agreements…