The Competition Commission of Pakistan was set up in October, replacing the country’s Monopoly Control Authority. Peter Scott spoke to commission chairman Khalid Mirza about his first six months in office.

State antitrust enforcers in the US have for years worked in tandem with federal agencies to help investigate and prosecute breaches of competition law. But it hasn’t always been that way. Ron Knox examines the modern history, criticisms and proponents of state enforcement

Sidley Austin LLP has promoted Ken Daly and Kristina Nordlander to partners in its Brussels office.

Competition prosecutors decide that companies may refuse to sell to a wholesalerexporter to protect their commercial interests, and this does not constitute an abuse of dominance

Vincent Mussche
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Brussels

Competition Council rules that the publication of mere guidance tariffs by a trade association without mandatory membership does not infringe the cartel prohibition

Vincent Mussche
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Brussels

Competition Bureau publishes new bulletin looking at telecommunications industry, but may well prove to have a wider application

Sorcha O’Carroll and David Kent
McMillan LLP
Toronto

British Columbia Supreme Court has denied class certification to a plaintiff seeking to recover damages in a case that shows the difficulty surrounding indirect purchasers

Jonathan Hood and David Kent
McMillan LLP
Toronto

Denmark has blocked the proposed merger of two plumbing and electricity goods wholesalers after finding that competition would suffer as a result

Jan-Erik Svensson
Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard
Copenhagen

A committee has been convened to select the chairman and members of India’s Competition Commission, which is expected to be fully functional by the beginning of next year

Atul Chitale
AY Chitale & Associates
New Delhi

Israel’s antitrust tribunal has denied Visa Europe’s application to be added as a party to the ongoing interchange fee proceedings because of its late application

D Ziv Abramovich
Lapidot Melchior Abramovich & Co
Jerusalem

Poland’s Competition Authority has issued a decision stating that tolls charged by a motorway operator constitute an abuse of a dominant position

Aleksander Stawicki and Bartosz Turno
Wiercinski Kwiecinski Baehr
Warsaw

Poland’s Competition Authority suspects that the country’s leading flour producers may have violated competition rules

Aleksander Stawicki and Bartosz Turno
Wiercinski Kwiecinski Baehr
Warsaw

Competition Authority finds no evidence of a breach of competition rules in bread making and investigates successive rises in the prices of liquid fuel

Alexandra Dias Henriques and Ricardo Filipe Costa
Marques Mendes & Associados
Lisbon

South Africa’s Competition Tribunal has rejected an application to confirm a settlement agreement between the Competition Commission, Netcare Hospital Group and Community Hospital Group

Daryl Dingley and Gina Silver
Webber Wetzel
Johannesburg

Sweden’s parliament has voted in favour of the Swedish government’s plans to restructure the monopoly chain of state-run pharmacies, Apoteket, and open up the country’s market for prescription and non-prescription drugs to competition

Olle Rislund and Sara Bergdahl
Cederquist
Stockholm

The Swiss Competition Commission (ComCo) issued a decision on allegedly anti-competitive conduct in the field of road construction and pavement production. Since the parties ceased their conduct in 2005, no fines were imposed

Marcel Meinhardt and Karin Frei
Lenz & Staehelin
Zurich