Die Kommission schrieb in M.6497 – Hutchinson 3G Austria/Orange Austria (Dezember 2012, meine Hervorhebung):
(345) … the Commission fully agrees that it is necessary to look into all aspects of competition in the relevant market in order to draw definitive conclusions, and this is what it has done in this Decision.
(346) The UPP approach has been widely used, including in the mobile telecommunications industry in the recent AT&T/T-Mobile case in the USA. The Parties have no suggestion as to an alternative, better methodology which would have been available to the Commission in the context of this case.
(347) It is therefore clear that there exists no generally agreed and tested, robust alternative approach which could have been used to underpin the Commission’s findings. The Commission has therefore done what was feasible given the available data. GUPPI is a generally accepted component of a merger analysis.
Das klingt so, wie wenn UPP/GUPPI zum täglich Brot der EU-Fusionskontrolle gehören würden. Dem ist natürlich nicht so. Ich wurde nach einem Vortrag zur FKVO aber gefragt, wie viele Fälle es denn bereits gegeben habe, in die GUPPis “hineinspielten”. Meiner Erinnerung nach war Orange Austria der erste, der auf UPPs fußt, aber in Sachen Hineinspielen war ich mir nicht sicher. Wissen Sie’s?