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...
In Illumina/Grail the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) attempts to restore order to EU merger control, barring the Commission from using the EU Merger Regulation to extend its review powers. It remains to be seen whether this aim will be achieved. In this blog post we clarify Arti...
On 31 October the European Commission (the “Commission”) fined the global pharmaceutical company Teva €462.6 million for abusing its dominant position by delaying competition for its multiple schlerosis (MS) blockbuster medicine, Copaxone. According to the Commission, Teva both artificially extended...
Earlier this year, International Flavors & Fragrances (“IFF”) was fined €15.9 million for obstructing an unannounced inspection (commonly known as “dawn raid”) carried out by the European Commission through the deletion of Whatsapp messages exchanged with a competitor. This underlines the import...