On 6 January 2020, the European Commission (EC) published an inception impact assessment that invites comments on the scope of application of EU competition law to collective bargaining agreements…
Despite best efforts of the European legislator as well as the CJEU, from a claimant’s perspective, private enforcement litigation before German Courts in the trucks cartel [Link] must be an…
The European Commission (the Commission) closed out its ambitious 2020 antitrust reform agenda with the long-awaited consultation (the Consultation) on reform of the Vertical Block Exemption…
The antitrust watchdog of India recently in Harshita Chawla v Whatsapp and Facebook[1] held that Whatsapp’s proposed model of integrating its payments app called ‘Whatsapp Pay’ (‘WPay’) within its…
2020 was a particularly busy year as regards competition law developments in Greece, despite the COVID-19 crisis.
Pushing ahead
The primary goal of the new leadership of the Greek Competition…
Main developments competition law and policy 2020: The Netherlands
As part of the series of posts on the main 2020 developments in key jurisdictions by many authors of the Kluwer Competition Law Blog…
In this article, we highlight the five most important developments and trends in Canadian competition law in 2020 and discuss what to watch for in 2021.
1. Impact of COVID-19
As in other…
The December 24 announcement that the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) had reached an agreement in principle on a new Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the TCA) was greeted with sighs…
The Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) and Italian courts – and also the Italian legislator – have been quite active in 2020, despite the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.
Covid-…
In the last few months, Competition Commission of India (CCI) took what most might view as an extremely lenient stance in two cartel cases; what is known as the most serious violations of competition…
