We are happy to inform you that the latest issue of the journal includes the following contributions:
Michael Albers, Achieving Competitive Neutrality Step-By-Step
States are not only rule…
Gun-jumping is a “hot topic” and increasingly on the radar of competition authorities in Europe and across the globe. As part of the OECD roundtable discussions, the European Union (and a number of…
On December 17, 2018, the European Commission (EC) imposed on the clothing company Guess a hefty penalty of EUR 40 million for allegedly severe restrictions relating to the online sales activities of…
On February 7, 2019, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) issued its long-awaited decision in the Facebook case, see press release and background paper in English here.
It qualifies Facebook’s…
Antitrust enforcers are good at regularly reminding the competition law community that the various forms of abuse of dominance listed in Article 102 TFEU are not exhaustive. Indeed, the idea of what…
Exhaustion doctrine and parallel imports
Parallel imports, Intellectual Property (“IP”) protection and its correlation with antimonopoly regulation is one of the most discussed topicsin the Russian…
CMA Brexit Draft Guidance
On 28 January 2019 the UK Competition and Markets Authority (‘CMA’) issued draft guidance on the effects of any no-deal Brexit on the CMA’s functions and its enforcement…
After almost three years of investigation, the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition (“BCPC”) has issued a Statement of Objections against in total 24 Bulgarian undertakings for bid-…
#1. The Commission's big three worries: Data as a vital tool for doing business; platforms which control access to important digital resources and then expand; killer acquisitions and other ways of…
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…
