The EC’s Competition Directorate has recently issued its long-awaited guidance to curb dominant firms’ exclusion of their smaller rivals, which it hopes will draw a line in the sand
Winter is a good time for competition guidelines – especially, it seems, on abuse of dominance. In December 2005 the Commission’s Competition Directorate, for the first time, put out some kind of statement on its views on this area – a discussion paper running to a lengthy
72 pages. Three years later and after much debate, the Commission has distilled its paper down into a formal ‘guidance’ document one third of the length.
