The European Union’s (EU’s) new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), entered into force on January 12, 2023. The FSR creates a unique new quasi-antitrust regime to combat distortions of competition…
On 6 February 2023, the European Commission ("EC") published the draft Implementing Regulation and notification forms (together: the "IR") relating to the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation ("FSR")…
In November 2022, the European Commission published its draft revision of the Market Definition Notice. This is the first time the Notice was revised since its adoption in 1997. The draft revised…
On 12 January 2023, the new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) entered into force. The majority of the FSR will start to apply on 12 July 2023.
The FSR constitutes a new investigatory review tool…
“All animals are equal but some are more equal than others” (George Orwell, ‘Animal Farm’)
On 28 November 2022, the Council of the European Union gave its final approval to the new EU Foreign…
Factual background
Just before 2022 ended the Commission sent a statement of objections to Meta regarding the potential abusive behaviour of Facebook. According to the statement of objections,…
The European Commission has published a Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (“Q&A”) document which aims to provide practical information with respect to the application of its recently revised…
On 10 October 2022, the European Commission (EC) sent a Statement of Objections to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe BV (Teva). The EC has provisionally found…
On 7 November 2022, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on the collection and exchange of data on short-term rental services, with the aim of establishing harmonized rules…
