4/15/2025 8:00:56 AM Czech NCA Publishes New Vertical Agreements Guidelines: What to Keep an Eye out for? By Martin Taimr Vojtěch Chloupek Matej Šinkovic The Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (“Office”) has published a new guidance document on vertical agreements...
4/15/2025 8:00:46 AM Breaking Boundaries: Denmark's Crackdown on Market sharing By Alexander Brøchner Morten Nissen Stefan Brkić The Danish Competition Council (“DCC”) has once again deemed the practices of the chain of independent retailers Boligtextilbranchens...
4/15/2025 8:00:43 AM Transparency deficiencies in online product selling revealed By Gábor Kutai Kinga Kálmán The Hungarian Competition Authority (“GVH”) recently participated in a joint investigation led by the European Commission and national...
4/15/2025 8:00:41 AM Redefining Economic Dependence: The Tunstall Case and its impact on Licensing Refusals By Baptist Vleeshouwers Claire De Neve In the recent Tunstall case, the Belgian Supreme Court (“Cour de cassation”) clarified that an abuse of economic dependence can arise...
4/15/2025 8:00:28 AM Unmasking digital healthcare collusion: How cooperation in digital advertising violated the competition rules By Stefan Brkić Morten Nissen The Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) has imposed fines on three digital healthcare providers for anti-competitive cooperation in...
4/15/2025 8:00:25 AM Spain’s FDI flows in 2024: Key insights according to the latest official report By Candela Sotés Since its implementation in 2020, Spain's Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) control regime has experienced constant growth in the number...
4/15/2025 8:00:19 AM Australia: ACCC consults on draft merger guidelines By Patrick Cordwell Thomas Jones Matthew Bovaird Dylan McGirr +1 more... Show less In late November 2024, the Government passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024 (“Merger Bill”),...
4/15/2025 8:00:14 AM Call-in powers for the Dutch competition authority: proposal to bring below threshold concentrations under scrutiny of the ACM By Quirijn Mohr Pauline Kuipers Tialda Beetstra The chairman of the Dutch competition authority, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (“ACM”), Martijn Snoep already alluded in a...
4/15/2025 8:00:03 AM A Formula for Change: CMA issues final recommendations in Infant Formula market study By David Pemberton Ariane Le Strat Tenisha Cramer Dr Saskia King +1 more... Show less As previously reported here, and more recently here, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) initiated an in-depth study into the...
4/15/2025 8:00:01 AM Italian Competition Authority investigates marketplace ban in selective distribution networks By Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi Bianca Gorlero On 18 March 2025, following a complaint submitted through its whistleblowing platform, the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”),...
4/15/2025 7:01:29 AM Key takeaways from CompLaw Nordic 2025 conference By Katia Duncker Morten Nissen We recently had the privilege of attending and speaking at the CompLaw Nordic conference, hosted by Informa Connect, in Stockholm on...
3/24/2025 4:30:23 PM Greenwashing and competition - Spanish judgement helps define limits for green claims By Candela Sotés The intersection of environmental concerns and competition law has become a topic of growing interest in recent years. Consumers...
3/24/2025 2:23:50 PM Squeezed out: Pricing practices of a dominant undertaking found to effectively exclude competitors from the market By Stefan Brkić Morten Nissen The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority has on 29 January 2025 found that a Danish medical device company has abused its dominant...
3/24/2025 10:17:48 AM How to ensure a fairer vet market for consumers By Dr Saskia King Graeme Payne The UK veterinary market has seen significant changes, including increased pet ownership and consolidation. In 2024, the UK Competition...
3/24/2025 10:17:17 AM Credit information antitrust probe started in Poland By Marcin Alberski Stanislaw Szymanek The Polish competition authority (“UOKiK”) has begun a preliminary investigation into the rules for assessing consumer creditworthiness...
3/24/2025 10:15:39 AM A prescription for fairer competition: court rules on excessive pricing of orphan drugs and health insurers' response By Pauline Kuipers Joost van Roosmalen Sander Wagemakers Introduction On 13 February 2025, the District Court of Rotterdam ruled on two cases relating to the behaviour and complaint of a...