Enforcement

A NEW COMMISSIONER OF COMPETITION FOR CANADA The year just ended witnessed a changing of the guard at Canada's Competition Bureau, with Melanie Aitken resigning as Commissioner of Competition in…

Canada's first competition legislation was enacted in 1889, with the intention of combatting the price-fixing and other anti-competitive conduct of so-called "combinations". Trade and professional…

Shortly after revealing proposed amendments to the Competition and Consumer Protection Act (for details, please see my post from May 22), the Polish Competition Authority (the President of the Office…

At the end of last week, the European Competition Network ("ECN") published a report on the competition law enforcement and market monitoring activities by the European competition authorities in the…

Cross-border antitrust enforcement issues are back on the agenda. The recent Toshiba judgment of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has confirmed a number of principles governing the network…

(1) Significant changes to the Polish Competition Law are on the way. One could probably not imagine a better case for a debut in this blog. The Polish Competition Authority, or PCA (the President…

At the end of March, the European Commission fined Czech energy companies Energetický a průmyslový and EP Investment Advisors EUR2.5 million for obstructing a dawn raid which European Commission…

We live in a world of network antitrust enforcement, to borrow the expression introduced by H. First a decade ago (here) to refer to the loose arrangements among the federal agencies and/or State…

On February 10, Advocate General (AG) Sharpston issued her Opinion in the KME case (C-272/09 P - here), an appeal brought before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against a judgment whereby the…