EU and Competition Blog | mars 14, 2025
On 25 February 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ECJ” or the “Court”) issued a preliminary ruling in Case C-233/23, Android Auto, concerning the application of Article 102 TFEU to Google’s refusal to ensure interoperability between its Android Auto platform...
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EU and Competition Blog | mars 7, 2025
On 24 February 2025, the European Union (the “EU”) adopted its 16th sanction package against Russia, marking the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The 16th package focuses on key sectors of the Russian economy, including energy, trade, transport, infrastructure, and finan...
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EU and Competition Blog | oktober 18, 2024
Recently the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) published its final judgment in the case C-465/20 P Commission v Ireland and Others concerning two tax rulings issued by Ireland in favour of Apple. The CJEU overturned the General Court’s judgment and upheld the Commission’s decision,...
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EU and Competition Blog | september 6, 2024
Earlier this week the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) published its long-awaited judgment in the joined cases C-611/22 P Illumina v Commission and C-625/22 P Grail v Commission concerning the European Commission’s powers to review mergers that fall under the thresholds of both EU...
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EU and Competition Blog | augusti 21, 2024
On 1 August 2024, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Sw. Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap) published its revised guidelines (MSBFS 2024:8) listing types of essential services that fall under the scope of the Swedish Act on Foreign Direct Investments (the “FDI Act”). The revised guide...
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EU and Competition Blog | 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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EU and Competition Blog | 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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EU and Competition Blog | 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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EU and Competition Blog | 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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EU and Competition Blog | 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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EU and Competition Blog | 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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EU and Competition Blog | 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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