On 3 May, the EC published a policy brief on labor markets.
The existing legal framework allows the EC and EU national competition authorities to take decisive action against anticompetitive…
Ever since its introduction in 2021, Section 19a of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen or “GWB”) has attracted attention, not only in Germany,…
The FTC first proposed to ban essentially all employer-employee non-competes throughout the US while I was a Commissioner. At that time, many -- including me – expressed concern that the FTC did not…
At the crack of dawn, the European Commission embarked on a milestone enforcement endeavor: the first unannounced inspection under the new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR)!
The European…
In last week's leading case on the abuse of a dominant position (2C_698/2021), the Federal Supreme Court sweepingly redefines the interpretation of abusive pricing and margin squeezes as well as the…
Cartels and Restrictive Agreements
Policy and Procedure
Revised Settlement Guidelines
On 6 November 2023, the AFCA published revised settlement guidelines. Based on these revised guidelines, the AFCA…
Competition policy
For the Czech competition law, 2023 was a year of significant developments. To begin with, after more than 2 years after the implementation deadline, the Czech Competition Act was…
Indian competition law recently enacted a ‘leniency plus’ regime, which incentivizes the cartelists to disclose information about their other cartels that were hitherto unknown to the Competition…
Among the many investigations and decisions targeting Google worldwide, the sanction of EUR 250 million imposed by the French Competition Authority (the Autorité) on 15 March 2024 (see here) in what…
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is set out as a complementary and separate regulatory instrument to EU competition law as well as to the application of national competition law provisions at the Member…
