I. Introduction to the internet consultation
On 19 December 2018 the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate ("Ministry") started an internet consultation on competition law and online…
Unlike recent merger cases where the Commission looked at the concentration of data within a merged entity, the Commission's focus in Apple/Shazam was on vertical concerns, including as a result of…
“Personal data is the currency of today’s digital market.”[1]
-Viviane Reding, (Former Vice-President, the European Commission)
Recently, a Committee of Experts (Srikrishna Committee) set up in India…
Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”) (www.ccpc.ie) has initiated a very welcome public consultation on possibly simplifying the merger control process.
Simplified…
On 20 November 2018, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission reached a political agreement on the proposed EU framework for screening of foreign direct investments (FDIs). The…
In September 2018, the European Commission (“EC”) sent out formal requests for information (“RFIs”) to investigate allegations of an anticompetitive conduct by Amazon. The investigation relates to…
The CJEU's judgment in MEO earlier this year seemed to be a welcome, final piece of the puzzle in the legal framework for analyzing when price discrimination is abusive. It was now relatively settled…
The tech giant Google[1] has been under the Turkish Competition Authority’s (“TCA”) scrutiny due to its practices in the market for licensable mobile operating systems and under the judicial review…
In July this year, the Bulgarian Commission for protection of competition (the “Bulgarian Commission”) blocked the acquisition of the vertically integrated business of CEZ Group of companies (owned…
M&A and other transactions involving foreign companies might sometimes raise national security concerns in specific areas of the economy such as military, dual use, advanced technology, etc. To…
