Co-authored by Patrick Harrison and Audrey Silvain, Sidley Austin LLP.
There are few distinctions more important in EU competition law than that between the notion of a restriction “by object” –…
A recent report from the National Audit Office has recommended that the Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") increase the number of cartel investigations it carries out. A number of recent…
Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania. An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant…
On January 6, 2016, the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (the investigative body of the Swiss Competition Commission; the "Secretariat") issued a "Notice on investigation instruments",…
“A strong and active antimonopoly authority is an incentive for undertakings to engage in prevention” – the President of the Polish Competition Authority presents his views on competition law…
Belgian endives are a divisive vegetable: their bitterness delights some but repulses others. And even amongst Belgian endive enthusiast you'll find some that prefer them raw – to maintain their…
On 4th November, the European Commission published a far-reaching consultation (the Consultation) on proposals to boost the enforcement powers of national competition authorities (NCAs) and to…
Any company or organisation that finds itself as the ‘middle man’ in contacts between competitors or which has dealings with such a middleman must take care, as a flurry of recent EU cases has…
If the recent Wahl opinion could have instilled some doubts about the responsibility of cartel facilitators under Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the…
