On 3 December 2015, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament (EP) approved a long-awaited regulation reforming the General Court of the European Union. The Council’s…
When your company is raided by an antitrust regulatory agency, what recourse do you have? At first, the answer from the ECJ and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) was “not much”, as companies…
The FCO has ended the year 2015 with quite a bang when it prohibited internet hotel portal booking.com to continue to use its “narrow” best-price clauses on December 23, 2015. The decision includes…
Marcel Meinhardt and Astrid Waser, Lenz & Staehelin, Switzerland
The Swiss Federal Administrative Court (“FAC”) recently passed two new judgments on vertical agreements. In the first…
One of the most important issues which are being investigated by the CCI is the treatment of vertical agreements. In one of my earlier posts (http://kluwercompetitionlawblog.com/2015/06/28/…
Hong Kong's first cross-sector competition law – the Competition Ordinance ("Ordinance") – finally came into full force on 14 December 2015.
The Ordinance became law in June 2012, initially bringing…
On January 6, 2016, the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (the investigative body of the Swiss Competition Commission; the "Secretariat") issued a "Notice on investigation instruments…
11th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE GLOBAL COMPETITION LAW CENTER
Monday-Tuesday, February 1-2, 2015 from 9:00 AM onwards
THE NOTION OF RESTRICTION OF COMPETITION: REVISITING THE FOUNDATIONS OF ANTITRUST…
A seller that failed to provide requested information to the Belgian Competition Authority (‘BCA’) on time in a merger control investigation has been fined €50,000 for obstruction. Beyond the…
While higher concentration/oligopoly should not lead in itself to greater problems, the reality is that agencies may be more suspicious; extra laws may apply; and complaints might be more likely.…
