The European Commission recently finalized a case regarding an alleged concerted practice involving several publishers and Apple on the market for e-book commercialization, by accepting commitments proposed by the parties in response to the Commission’s anticompetitive concerns.The relevance of this decision results from the peculiarities of the factual background which, in principle, may render questionable the extent to which thi...

The paper presents the way in which the European Commission applied the transaction procedure in its second case ended by a transaction – case COMP/38866, Animal Feed Phosphates. This is the first case (and the only one so far) in which the Commission ended the investigation by a transaction even if only some of the parties under investigation transactioned (the so-called hybrid case).