Recent Developments in Abuse of Dominance Law in Canada:
When is Anti-Competitive Conduct Justified?
Charles Tingley and Mark Katz
On October 17, 2019, the Canadian Competition Tribunal dismissed an…
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has released Interim Observations for a market study being conducted by it to understand qualitative aspects of e-commerce in India.[1] It has outlined its…
This post explains (i) why there is friction between sustainability initiatives and competition law and (ii) how the EU Commission could take steps to address this.
Recent EU developments suggest a…
Introduction
On 4 July 2019 a long-awaited Dutch legislative proposal regarding sustainability initiatives ("Wet ruimte voor duurzaamheidsinitiatieven") was submitted to the Dutch House of…
Introduction
The growth of e-commerce over the last decade has had a significant impact on most if not all retail markets. Trends like the increased importance of online sales, price transparency and…
On June 4, 2019, the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal quashed the decision of the Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) prohibiting Booking.com to operate so-called narrow most favored nation (MFN) clauses (or…
After Google has been fined several times for breach of (EU) competition rules the last couple of years, it might now be Apple's turn. Last month (March 2019), Spotify filed a complaint against Apple…
Confidentiality, an inherent feature in commercial arbitration and a preferred one too, is of great importance to antitrust proceedings when information is supplied by any party. There are, however,…
Common ownership currently is one of the focus topics in the antitrust community. Einer Elhauge, a Harvard Law professor, has called it the “greatest anticompetitive threat of our times”. Others…
