On 3 April 2025, the Swedish Competition Authority (the “SCA”) fined three digital healthcare providers—MinDoktor, Doktor.se, and Doktor24—for entering into anticompetitive agreements with Kry, another provider of online healthcare services. These bilateral agreements, which related to advertising s...
On 27 March 2025, the Swedish Competition Authority (the “SCA”) adopted new regulations and general guidelines on merger notifications, KKVFS 2025:1, which will enter into force on 26 May 2025. The regulations and guidelines contain instructions for the notification and the information required when...
On 21 March 2025, the Patent and Market Court (the “Court”) rejected Tapwell AB’s (“Tapwell”) appeal against the Swedish Competition Authority’s (the “SCA”) decision to impose a fine of SEK 16.9 million (approximately MEUR 1.5). This is the highest fine imposed by the SCA since it obtained fining po...
On 6 March 2025, the Swedish Government presented a new government bill with a new act on international sanctions (Sw. Prop. 2024/25:126 Ny lag om internationella sanktioner). Sweden has had legislation regarding enforcement of breach of sanctions for a long time but there has been scarce enforcemen...
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...
On March 7, 2025, the investigation report SOU 2025:22 – Improved Competition in the Public and Private Sectors – was published. This investigation was commissioned by the Swedish Government to analyse and propose new legislative measures aimed at strengthening competition in Sweden. The investigati...
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...
On 24 February 2025, the Swedish Competition Authority (the “SCA”) submitted an official letter to the Swedish Government, proposing significant amendments to the Swedish merger control rules. The proposed changes emerge from the SCA’s own initiative, calling on the Swedish Government to initiate a...
Background On 26 October 2023, the Swedish Competition Authority (the “SCA”) issued its first fining decision under the Swedish Unfair Trading Practices Act (the “UTP Act”), which implements the 2019 EU directive on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural a...
On 17 December 2024, the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products (the “ISP”) prohibited an investment under the Swedish Screening of Foreign Direct Investments Act (2023:560) (the “FDI Act”). Only a few weeks later, the agency imposed an administrative fine on a Swedish investor for n...
The European Commission (the “Commission”) recently decided to withdraw its guidance on the referral mechanism in Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”). This is a consequence of the Illumina/Grail judgement, where the European Court of Justice (the “CJEU”) held that the Commission may not...
1 December 2024, marks one year since the Swedish Screening of Foreign Direct Investments Act (the ”FDI Act”) entered into force. As per 29 November 2024, 1,206 investments have been notified under the Swedish regime. In this blog post we will comment on the application of the FDI Act and provide st...