In the context of ongoing antitrust investigations into Facebook Inc.'s ('Facebook') data-related practices (AT.40628) and Facebook marketplace (AT.40684), on 13 March 2020 the European Commission (…
Background
On July 15, 2020, the General Court annulled the 2016 Commission Decision ordering Ireland to recover EUR 13 billion of illegal State aid from Apple,[1] chiefly, because the Commission had…
Months before the prospective final Brexit, the ECJ laid what is in all likelihood the last State aid milestone on the UK’s path out of the European Union – at the same time, the ECJ’s judgment in…
A welcome post by the new Deputy Editor
Introduction and summary
In the recent Anesco case, the ECJ held the preliminary request of the Spanish National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC)…
Sisyphus was a Greek mythological figure who was condemned to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down every time it neared the top. Repeating this action for eternity. The…
There has been an important milestone in the search for more legal certainty in gun-jumping cases: On September 26, 2019, Advocate General (AG) Tanchev issued his opinion in the Marine Harvest case …
On September 5, 2019, Advocate General Bobek published his opinion in the Budapest Bank case (C-228/18). The opinion provides very clear and practical guidance on the concept of restriction of…
In its preliminary ruling in Skanska Industrial Solutions and Others[1], the Court of Justice has ruled on the fundamental question of who is liable to pay compensation in an action for damages for…
On 16 January 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU" or "Court") dismissed the European Commission’s appeal against the annulment of its decision to prohibit the acquisition of TNT…
