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Hub-and-spoke arrangements: future challenges within Article 101 TFEU assessment

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  • Patrick Actis Perinetto

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Notwithstanding the lack of a theoretical elaboration at the EU level, hub-and-spoke arrangements are increasingly surfacing at national level as useful smokescreen to hide anticompetitive conduct. Due to their features favourable to collusion, hub-and-spoke arrangements may represent the future of Article 101 TFEU. This paper aims at providing an analysis of the characteristics of hub-and-spoke arrangements and their interpretative challenges to allow interpreters and courts to correctly deal with them in real-life. The morphology of these arrangements and the indications provided by the available case-law will be first addressed. Then, following a description of the limited EU relevant case-law, the black areas of the EU hub-and-spoke elaboration will be singled out and its relationship with the case-law on information exchange will be investigated. Finally, a proposal of a EU legal assessment of hub-and-spoke will be made and tested with respect to the hub-and-spoke based on information gathered from the market.

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  • Patrick Actis Perinetto, 2019. "Hub-and-spoke arrangements: future challenges within Article 101 TFEU assessment," European Competition Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2-3), pages 281-317, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:recjxx:v:15:y:2019:i:2-3:p:281-317
    DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2019.1662209
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