The Application of Article 85 of the EEC Treaty to Exclusive Distribution Agreements

Compares the application of EEC competition laws and U.S. antitrust laws to exclusive distribution agreements, and noting an interesting development in the two systems. Article analyzes Continental T.V., Inc. v. GTE Sylvania Inc. and concludes it introduced the rule of reason to the U.S. approach for analyzing all nonprice vertical restrictions, but did not provide concrete guidelines for its application. The EEC approach, on the other hand, is designed to promote the goal of Common Market integration by preventing the insulation of national markets. Thus the Commission and the Court of Justice have developed a favorable attitude towards territorial and exclusive supply restrictions, but are stricter with regard to price and customer restrictions

Perturbative Yang-Mills theory without Faddeev-Popov ghost fields

A modifed Faddeev-Popov path integral density for the quantization of Yang-Mills theory in the Feynman gauge is discussed, where contributions of the Faddeev-Popov ghost fields are replaced by multi-point gauge field interactions. An explicit calculation to $O(g^2)$ shows the equivalence of the usual Faddeev-Popov scheme and its modified version.Comment: 5 pages, 1 table. Extended version accepted for publication in Physics Letters