Overview2025 proved to be another active year in the field of competition law and policy in Cyprus. The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) maintained an assertive enforcement stance…
2025 marked a year of intensified enforcement and expanding regulatory scope for Turkish competition law. The TCA maintained robust action against resale price maintenance whilst significantly…
2025 has brought substantial developments in regulatory M&A provisions across national regimes in the Middle East and Noth Africa (MENA) Region. The UAE started enforcing their revised merger…
Legislative developmentsThe legislative developments in 2025 were marked by the adoption of the secondary regulations substantiating the provisions of the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), which was amended…
Killer acquisitions are not a standalone category or type of transaction, but a theory of harm used in merger control to explain how certain acquisitions of nascent or innovative firms may undermine…
On 9 January 2026, the Commission adopted its Guidelines on the application of certain provisions of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). This publication follows the publication of the Draft…
The year 2025, in Malta, saw the appointment of a new Director General of the Office for Competition (“OC”) - Malta’s National Competition Authority - following the…
During 2025, we made sure to publish many remarkable, insightful, and well-written contributions by our authors at Kluwer Competition Law Blog. We want to thank every single author who published with…
In her September 2024 Mission Letter, Commission President von der Leyen directed Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera to develop a “new approach to competition policy” to “reflect the growing…
The year of 2025 was an eventful year for the development of Icelandic competition law. The Supreme Court of Iceland addressed critical issues, including the interpretation of settlements, and upheld…
