With Parliamentary elections and a series of national votes in 2024, the EU is entering a pivotal period in its history. In this study, ‘Global business in a changing Europe’, we speak to corporate leaders across the world to...more
3/22/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Asset Management ,
Capital Markets ,
Competition ,
Corporate Governance ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
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Sustainability
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Dirk Arts, co-head of the global antitrust group and partner based in Brussels, is our editor this month. He has...more
3/8/2024
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Antitrust Provisions ,
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Competition ,
Enforcement Actions ,
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Mergers ,
Popular ,
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UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
The Belgian Competition Authority (the BCA) announced last week that it has initiated an ex officio investigation into a possible abuse of economic dependence in the agricultural sector, making this the BCA’s first formal...more
On 22 March 2023, the Belgian Competition Authority (the BCA) announced that it had opened an ex officio investigation into an alleged abuse of dominance by Proximus, the incumbent Belgian telecom operator, in the context of...more
The EU is concerned about subsidies granted by non-EU countries that could distort competition in EU markets. In May 2021 it published a proposal for a regulation (the Foreign Subsidies Regulation) that would introduce,...more
On 1 March 2022, the European Commission published for consultation draft revised Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations on research & development and specialisation agreements as well as draft revised Guidelines on...more
The Belgian Chamber of Representatives recently approved a draft law transposing EU Directive 2019/1 to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper...more
U.S. FTC merger enforcement gathers pace n-
This month we have seen a flurry of activity on the merger control front from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Grabbing the headlines is the announcement that the FTC...more
The European Commission (Commission) has the power to order companies suspected of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour to stop their conduct pending a final decision in an investigation – so-called “interim measures”....more
On 10 March 2016, the Belgian Constitutional Court handed down an important decision on the starting point of the limitation period for private enforcement actions. These actions cannot be time-barred before a final decision...more
Now that the UK is on the path to an “in-out” referendum on 23 June, this paper looks at the impact of a Brexit on competition policy and enforcement in the UK, and generally in the European Union (“EU”).
EU competition...more
3/30/2016
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EUMR ,
European Commission ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
OECD ,
Private Right of Action ,
State Aid ,
UK ,
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UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
Antitrust authorities on the offensive
– the insatiable appetite of mature regimes for ever-increasing fines continues unabated, with the U.S., EU, Brazil, South Korea, Japan and Australia on pace to surpass their 2013...more