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Remedies and Commitments in Abuse Cases

 

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2022 OECD GLOBAL FORUM ON COMPETITION DISCUSSES REMEDIES AND COMMITMENTS IN ABUSE CASES

When an abusive conduct of dominant undertakings is found, this will often require competition authorities, in addition to sanctions and/or cease and desist orders, or as an alternative way of case resolution, to impose remedies or accept commitments by the dominant undertakings. The aim is to effectively stop the abusive conduct, and to create conditions that allow to restore or enable competition. To avoid further damage to the markets in question, such remedies and commitments need to be timely, effective, and proportionate.

In December 2022, the Global Forum on Competition held a roundtable to revisit the options available to competition authorities in designing such remedies and commitments, and discussed practical insights and experiences, in particular:

  • What criteria guide competition authorities when using remedies and commitments in addition or as an alternative to sanctions?
  • Which cases are suitable for structural remedies, and in which cases are behavioural remedies more adequate?
  • Which lessons can be drawn from the monitoring of the compliance with remedies and commitments that were imposed or accepted? Can sector regulators assist competition authorities in this task?
  • What are insights gained from an ex-post evaluation of previously applied remedies and commitments?

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Speakers

Anna Pisarkiewicz Bio  
Research Fellow
EUI Centre for a Digital Society (CDS)

Gwen Grecia-De Vera Bio  
Director, Competition Law and Policy Program
University of the Philippines Law Centre

Frank Maier-Rigaud Bio 
Managing Director
ABC Economics 

Lucía Ojeda Cardenás Bio  
Partner
SAI Derecho & Economía

Documents

Background note

Call for contributions 

Summaries of contributions

Contributions from delegations

Argentina

BEUC

BIAC

Brazil

Bulgaria

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Ecuador

EU

Hungary

Japan

Mexico

Korea

Latvia

Slovenia

Türkiye

United States

Chinese Taipei

Summaries of contributions

 

Videos

Lucia Ojeda Cardenás

Gwen Grecia-De Vera

Presentations

Anna R. Pisarkiewicz

Grecia-De Vera


Lucia Ojéda Carnenas

Frank Maier-Rigaud

Related links

Interim Interim Measures in Antitrust Investigations, OECD Policy Roundtables 2022

Sanctions in Antitrust Cases OECD Global Forum on Competition 2016

Commitment Decisions in Antitrust Cases, OECD Policy Roundtables 2016

Remedies in Merger Cases, OECD Policy Roundtables 2011

Remedies and Sanctions in Abuse of Dominance Cases, OECD Policy Roundtables 2006

OECD Competition Youtube channel

Global Forum website

Full list of Competition Policy Roundtables

 

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