juni 5, 2024
Introduction
Despite the increasing number of adopted sanctions, targeting not only Russia and Russian entities, but also, Iran, North Korea, among other jurisdictions, the European Union (the “EU”) has taken note of frequent breaches of sanctions combined with incoherent enforcement at Member State...
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mars 28, 2024
The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (the “FSR”), which is applicable in the EU since 12 July 2023, allows the European Commission (the “Commission”) to investigate and to take action against companies that receive financial support from non-EU governments deemed to distort competition within the EU sin...
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mars 20, 2024
Following a European Commission proposal in 2022 for a regulation banning products made with forced labour, the EU legislators reached an agreement on 4 March 2024 to adopt a regulation that will ban such products from the EU (the “Regulation”).
According to the International Labour Organization, ne...
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mars 15, 2024
Introduction and background
On 8 February 2024, the European Commission (the “Commission”) adopted a revised Market Definition Notice (the “Notice”).
Defining a relevant market is a necessary step when assessing the market power of an undertaking in merger control and antitrust cases. This provides...
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augusti 16, 2023
Competition law and State Aid rules are more often than you might think related to the world of professional sports. And now the spotlight has turned to another field of EU law. On 12 August 2023, La Liga, the national professional football league in Spain, announced in a press release that it has l...
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juli 19, 2023
On 29 June 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a preliminary ruling in the Super Bock case on the legality of resale price maintenance in distribution agreements. It appears that the last bastion of the ‘formalistic approach’ once adopted by the EU Courts has now fallen. In it...
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juni 12, 2023
A New Approach for Assessing Alleged Abuse of a Dominant Position under Article 102 TFEU?
On 27 March this year the European Commission launched a Call for Evidence seeking feedback on the intended adoption of Guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominance, prohibited by Article 102 TFEU. Exclusiona...
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maj 24, 2023
Last week, on 16 May 2023, the Swedish Government presented a legislative bill on foreign direct investments (the FDI Act) to the Swedish Parliament. The FDI Act, which is suggested to enter into force on 1 December 2023 significantly expands the Government’s current powers to scrutinize foreign inv...
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april 3, 2023
Increased competition law scrutiny has recently entered the employment arena. Thus, it is important to be aware that agreements between employers to fix wages or not to recruit staff (so-called no-poach agreements) could result in high fines, damages claims, exclusion from public procurements and ba...
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mars 9, 2023
In this blog post, we take a closer look at the merger control year of 2022 in Sweden and the cases that caught the Swedish Competition Authority’s (“SCA”) attention.
2022 in numbers
In 2022, the SCA received 117 merger filings. While this was a slight decrease compared to the record breaking 135 no...
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februari 15, 2023
On 6 February 2023, the European Commission (the Commission) published a Draft Implementing Regulation for the application of the Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR). The FSR, which entered into force on 12 January 2023, allows the Commission to screen non-EU government subsidies. The FSR requires...
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februari 6, 2023
In a recent preliminary ruling regarding Unilever, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) reaffirms the position taken in Intel, declaring that a national competition authority (NCA) cannot disregard claims that an exclusivity scheme is incapable of producing anticompetitive effects. The e...
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