Last week, the European Commission published on its website a revised explanatory note on how it conducts on-the-spot inspections of business premises where it suspects a company has breached…
Competition Law in Canada – Top 10 Issues for 2013
This is a post of an article written by my partners Anita Banicevic, Richard Elliott, Charles Tingley and me…
At the end of 2012 the Slovak Antimonopoly Office presented its future plans for public discussion. Various aspects such as the announced prioritisation of antitrust enforcement, the incentives for…
In sport it used to be said that it is not the winning that counts but the taking part. That approach to professional sport would now seem rather quaint, but the debate has been recycled somewhat in…
Introduction
The smart phone wars have led to heated discussions over standard setting in technology markets. It seems only a question of time before the standard setting debate spills over into…
Introduction
The European Commission has published its long-awaited proposals to overhaul the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation, which provides a competition law safe harbour for…
BIS Reform: Opt–out Collective Actions Regime
On the 21st of January the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ("BIS") released the results of its consultation on competition law private…
It will not come as a surprise to many that in the first few years of having competition law powers, the Competition Commission of India (the “CCI”) has targeted one of India’s most important…
The Polish competition authority (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, "PCA") has recently addressed the issue of resale price maintenance clauses ("RPM") (see PCA decision of 31 December…
The Canadian Track Record in Punishing Cartel Conduct
Canada has a long history of pursuing and prosecuting cartels (more commonly referred to in Canadian competition law as "conspiracies"). The…
