The European Court of Auditors' Special Report published on 19 November 2020 is an interesting read for a dark COVID winter evening: "The Commission’s EU merger control and antitrust proceedings: a…
Spotlight on Europe’s ‘strategic autonomy’
The calls for Europe’s ‘strategic autonomy’ or ‘strategic sovereignty’ have been gaining increasing traction in Brussels policy circles over the past few…
The theme of antitrust in crisis is very timely for the current global climate, but more so than ever for Australia where we had already dealt with unprecedented drought, bushfires and now the global…
When Europe sneezes…India catches a cold
Investigations against big tech in Europe and U.S. have created a ripple effect all over the world, including India. The impact of worldwide investigations…
Recently, after almost 15 months of discussions, the Parliament of Georgia adopted a comprehensive set of amendments to the Law on Competition (hereinafter – “LC”). Prepared within the framework of…
What to consider a restriction of competition under Article 101 (1) is complex. However, the text of Article 101 (1) refers to agreements that are anti-competitive by object or by effect. A…
The issuance of requests for information (“RFIs”) within the scope of an investigation or a merger control case can be deemed one of the main tools that enables, on the one hand, a competition…
The German Federal Cartel Authority continues its campaign against tech-giants by once again launching a probe into Amazon. This time, Amazon is not the only company affected. The authority also…
On 28 October 2020, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") submitted to the Ukrainian Parliament the proposed amendments to the draft law introducing new merger filing thresholds in…
On 22 October 2020, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed in Silver Plastics that the General Court (GC) is not bound to accept a request for the examination of witnesses when it has…
