Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chair, Rod Sims, has announced the ACCC's 2021 compliance and enforcement policy and priorities.
The focus of the ACCC's 2021 priorities is…
Introduction
The recently introduced prohibition of abuse of economic dependence (Article IV.2/1 Belgian Code of Economic Law) is a novelty in Belgian law, which may become of significant importance…
The Davies Forecast of Top 5 Trends and Issues for Canadian Competition Law in 2020
Jim Dinning, Anita Banicevic and Mark Katz
Here is Davies’ annual forecast of Canadian competition law developments…
On July 17, 2019, the German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office, “FCO”) terminated its dominance probe into Amazon’s business terms towards sellers on its marketplace after Amazon agreed to…
The Regional office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Sverdlovsk region has recently issued a decision ordering a leniency applicant to return unlawfully gained income. The Appeal Board of…
Debate in the competition law community has intensified around the issue of enforcement in digital markets in recent months with (yet another) significant antitrust fine being levied against Google, …
On 26 February 2019, the Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets ("ACM") published renewed guidelines on both vertical and horizontal restraints. These documents are likely published to reflect the…
EU competition policy: based on political discretion?
Many would agree that Brussels’ legislative priorities guide competition policy and enforcement. Under President Juncker’s mandate, the creation…
On September 4, 2018, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs has published a report by economic and legal experts analyzing some key issues of abuse of market power in the digital platform economy …
