ANTITRUST ALERT
February 03, 2012

Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") upholds the Competition Commission’s ("CC") decision to order airport management company BAA to sell its London Stansted airport: the CAT has issued a judgment in connection with an application by BAA Limited (“BAA”) for review of a decision by the CC dated 19 July 2011 (“the 2011 report”). The 2011 report was issued by the CC following its consultation on whether there had been any material change of circumstances that, pursuant to section 138(2) of the Enterprise Act 2002, was such as to justify a departure from the remedies decided on by the CC in its report of 19 March 2009 on the supply of airport services by BAA in the United Kingdom. The CAT dismissed BAA’s application in its entirety. link

European Competition Forum 2012 – Materials available online: the materials of the European Competition Forum 2012, as held in Brussels on 2 February 2012, are available online. This includes a speech of Competition Commissioner Almunia on "European Union Competition policy – a building block for growth and renewal" link