More than a year has passed since the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) completed its first investigations into the Ukrainian pharmaceutical market. However, it has recently struck another…
The Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) has published a background paper “Innovation – Challenges for the Antitrust Law Practice” in October 2017. It covers possible innovation aspects across different…
José Rivas, 'Editor’s Note'
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Pieter J.F. Huizing, 'Fining Foreign Effects: A New Frontier of Extraterritorial Cartel Enforcement in Europe?'
Abstract: Regulation 1/2003 does not explicitly…
On 4 November 2017, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the amendments to China's Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL). The amendments will take effect from 1 January 2018…
On November 22, 2017, the Chamber of Deputies approved the bill introducing a new Competition Law in Argentina (the “New Competition Law”). The bill will now go to the Senate for its approval, which…
In late October 2017 the AMCU approved the Typical Requirements for Vertical Concerted Actions of Business Entities (hereinafter – the Typical Requirements). The development of the document was due…
The UK Financial Conduct Authority ("the FCA") has published the terms of reference for a market study into the wholesale insurance broker market. Its aim is to understand whether competition works…
‘Product hopping’, or ‘evergreening’, are expressions used (by antitrust authorities and industry respectively) to describe strategies employed by pharmaceutical companies to protect sales of a…
As 2018 and Father Christmas approach, it is important to remember that there will be those in Copenhagen next month more interested in dominant market presence than Christmas market presents. To the…
The new digital economy will involve significant cooperation between competitors and data sharing / pooling to a much larger extent than in the past. This is not limited to the big data industries…
