Recent Rulings from the EU Courts in Qualcomm, Optical Disk Drives and Google Android Show That Failure to Respect the Parties’ Defence Rights May Come at a High Price. In recent years, there has been much talk of ‘due process’ and of ensuring a fair and impartial case handling by competition author...
It is now a year since the Swedish Act on the Prohibition of Unfair Trading Practices in the Purchase of Agricultural and Food Products (the so-called UTP Act, Sw. ”lagen om förbud mot otillbörliga handelsmetoder vid köp av jordbruks- och livsmedelsprodukter”) entered into force on 1 November 2021....
The Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) has on 20 october 2022 adopted it first own decision on competition fines. The SCA has only had the right to issue competition fines since March 2021, and the recent decision is the first where it uses its new powers. Due to the low turnover of the parties and...
On 30 June 2022, the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) which will allow the European Commission (the Commission) to screen non-EU government subsidies. On 28 November 2022, the FSR was formally adopted following the Counc...
The Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 12 October 2022 and enters into force on 1 November 2022. The DMA starts to apply from 2 May 2023, at which point the European Commission will start designating undertakings as gatekeepers. Once an underta...