The Iron Ore Production Joint Venture Between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton: The European Angle of a Multinational Antitrust Review

Jean-François Bellis ()
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Chapter Chapter 10 in Emerging Issues in Sustainable Development, 2016, pp 221-243 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 2009–2010, the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) reviewed the proposed iron ore production joint venture in Western Australia between BHP Billiton (“BHPB”) and Rio Tinto (“Rio”). This transaction was announced in June 2009 but was finally abandoned by the parties in October 2010 due to antitrust concerns. While no formal decision on the proposed BHPB/Rio joint venture has been issued, neither by the European Commission nor the German FCO, this case is nonetheless noteworthy in that It is very rare for European competition authorities to oppose pure production joint ventures, let alone one in which the production takes place entirely outside of the EU and only relatively small amounts of the jointly produced products would likely be sold in the EU.

Keywords: Competition law and natural resources; Joint ventures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-56426-3_10

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