caa a22 4500 467930260 CHVBK 20180406152941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11151-006-9122-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11151-006-9122-8 The Year 2005at DG Competition: The Trend towards a More Effects-Based Approach [Elektronische Daten] [Lars-Hendrik Roeller, Oliver Stehmann] This first review of the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP) gives an overview on DG COMP's mandate and the main developments of 2005. The discussion includes institutional and policy developments, as well as the main competition policy decisions and Court judgments in the merger, antitrust, and state aid areas. It is argued that the trend towards a more effects-based analysis in EU competition policy had an impact on the assessment of competition cases, as well as on the development of soft law. For example, the effects-based approach was put high on the agenda with the publication of the Article 82 discussion paper. Similarly, the publication of the State Aids Action Plan (SAAP) launched a "more economic approach” in European state aid assessment. In line with its objective to focus resources on key sectors, two major inquiries were launched in the energy and financial sectors. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 Competition policy nationallicence effects-based approach nationallicence antitrust nationallicence state aids nationallicence mergers nationallicence Roeller Lars-Hendrik European School of Management and Technology, Schlossplatz 1, 10178, Berlin, Germany aut Stehmann Oliver Chief Economist Team, DG Competition, Rue Joseph II, 70, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium aut Review of Industrial Organization Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 29/4(2006-12-01), 281-304 0889-938X 29:4<281 2006 29 11151 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-006-9122-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-006-9122-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roeller Lars-Hendrik European School of Management and Technology, Schlossplatz 1, 10178, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stehmann Oliver Chief Economist Team, DG Competition, Rue Joseph II, 70, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Industrial Organization Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 29/4(2006-12-01), 281-304 0889-938X 29:4<281 2006 29 11151 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer