The Doctrine of Collective Dominance: All Together Forever?

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Frederic Depoortere, Giorgio Motta, Oct 08, 2009

What are the policy objectives underlying the collective dominance (“CD”) doctrine under Article 82 of the EC Treaty and what is the legal test governing its application? Even today these questions remain partially unanswered. EC competition law still appears to lack a robust and consistent legal standard for identifying when companies should be held “collectively