Minimum resale price maintenance in EU in the aftermath of the US Leegin decision

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• 作者：Elif Cemre Hazıroğlu ; Semih Gökatalay
• 刊名：European Journal of Law and Economics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：42
• 期：1
• 页码：45-71
• 全文大小：519 KB
• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Economics
  Law and Economics
  European Integration
  Public Finance and Economics
  Commercial Law
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9990
• 卷排序：42

文摘

Leegin decision of the Supreme Court in 2007 affirmed that minimum RPM was to be evaluated under the rule of reason henceforth. Conversely, minimum RPM retains its position as a hard-core restraint in EU’s BER 2010 and the De Minimis Notice. The limited amount of case law reveal that in the absence of certain factors, such as significant market power of the parties, minimum RPM is unlikely to result in the detriment of consumers. Consequently, despite the retention of the maintenance of the single market as a significant aim in EU competition policy, minimum RPM practices are entitled to a more lenient approach, if the ultimate aim is to attain consumer welfare as stated by the Commission and through most judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union.KeywordsAntitrust lawUSEUArt. 101 TFEUDr. MilesLeeginMinimum resale price maintenanceHard-core restraintsPer seRule of reasonAppreciability standardDe Minimis notice