The 5th report on the screening of foreign direct investments ("FDI") published on 14 October 2025 by the European Commission ("Commission") provides an overview of enforcement activities and…
Private enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is now a reality, and the judgment of the Regional Court of Mainz (Case 12 HK O 32/24) in the 1&1 Mail & Media/Google (Gmail) case,…
Given the creeping complexity of cases, expanding evidence bases, and the ever present threat (or reality) of budget cuts, competition authorities around the world are on the lookout for ways to…
The Brazilian Federal Government proposed to the Brazilian Congress on the 17th of September an amendment to its competition law regime via Bill No. 4675/2025 (the Bill). In essence, the proposed…
In December 2024, the Congress of Guatemala passed Decree 32-2024, the Competition Law. Although it is based on Initiative 5074, the bill was significantly modified by the congressional committee,…
A year ago, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission (EC) announced they would work on joint guidance on the interplay between the DMA and the GDPR. On the 9th of October…
IntroductionIn September 2025, and after the national holidays, the Chilean competition authority (Fiscalía Nacional Económica, hereafter referred to as “FNE”) announced the dismissal of a complaint…
The newly published Competition Law and Policy in the Western Balkans (edited by Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman, Gentjan Skara, and Alexandr Svetlicinii) is a pioneering contribution to a field that, until…
A year ago, the Japanese Government made the Mobile Software Competition Act (for short, MSCA) into law. The move represented the first ex ante regulation addressing market power in Asia to…
On 8 September 2025, the European Commission (“EC”) imposed a fine of €172,000 on Eurofield SAS (“Eurofield”) and its then-parent company Unanime Sport SAS (“Unanime Sport”) for providing incomplete…
