On 21 October 2022 the Spanish CNMC imposed a fine of 38.9 million EUR on MERCK SHARP & DOHME DE ESPAÑA, S.A. and its parent company MSD HUMAN HEALTH HOLDING, B.V. (hereafter jointly ‘MSD’) for…
Sustainability as a policy priority
It is no news that sustainability is an important topic of competition policy across the EU. There is clear consensus that competition law enforcement should be…
The final text of the DMA, after the Council’s final approval last 18th July, opened up, yet again, speculation on its enforcement. Although the Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton…
Two Germans meet in Graz to discuss private enforcement of competition law in the EU. Tune in for the first in-person interview of the competition edition of the International Law Talk Podcast. On a…
In its judgment of 25 February 2021 in the case of Slovak Telekom, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) reaffirmed its jurisprudence on the ne bis in idem rule and clarifies its relationship and…
On 10 December 2020, the Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) announced that it has launched a pilot investigation into the role of algorithms in commercial interactions between market…
On 25 November 2020, the French Competition Authority (FCA) announced that it was amending its decision-making practice regarding responses to calls for tenders by subsidiaries of the same group.
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EU FDI Screening Regulation: separating security from competition
The Regulation 2019/452 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union (EU FDI Screening…
EU FDI Screening Regulation: separating security and competition concerns
Regulation 2019/452 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union (EU FDI Screening…
