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Book SynopsisWhish 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. This definitive guide to competition law is regularly used in universities, law firms, economic consultancies, competition authorities and co
Table of Contents1: Competition policy and economics 2: Overview of EU and UK competition law 3: Article 101 (1) 4: Article 101 (3) 5: Article 102 6: The obligations of Member States under the EU competition rules 7: Articles 101 and 102 - public enforcement by the European Commission and national competition authorities under Regulation 1/2003 8: Articles 101 and 102 - private enforcement in the courts of Member States 9: Competition Act 1998 - substantive provisions 10: Competition Act 1998 and the cartel offence - public enforcement and procedure 11: Enterprise Act 2002 - market studies and market investigations 12: The international dimension of competition law 13: Horizontal agreements (1) - cartels 14: Horizontal agreements (2) - oligopoly, tacit collusion, and collective dominance 15: Horizontal agreements (3) - cooperation agreements 16: Vertical agreements 17: Abuse of dominance (1) - non-pricing practices 18: Abuse of dominance (2) - pricing practices 19: The relationship between intellectual property rights and competition law 20: Mergers (1) - introduction 21: Mergers (2) - EU law 22: Mergers (3) - UK law 23: Particular sectors
