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EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation: What Impacts Will It Have on Future Mergers?

As of July 12, 2023, the Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 of Dec. 14, 2022, on foreign subsidies — the foreign subsidies regulation, or FSR — will allow the European Commission to investigate, analyze and remedy distortions that...more

EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation: The European Commission’s New Powers of Investigation and Sanction

Entered into force on Jan. 12, 2023, Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 of Dec. 14, 2022 — the foreign subsidies regulation, or FSR — allows the European Commission to address distortions in the EU market caused by foreign subsidies,...more

Naming and Shaming: Injunctive Measures Taken by the DGCCRF Can Now Be Made Public

On Dec. 29, 2022, Decree No. 2022-1701 — defining the procedures for publicizing the measures taken pursuant to Book IV of the Commercial Code and Book V of the Consumer Code — was published pursuant to the law of Aug. 16,...more

Private Enforcement: The Court of Justice of the European Union Clarifies the Conditions Under Which a National Court May Order...

In a judgment published on Jan. 12, 2023 (Case C-57/21, RegioJet a.s.), the Court of Justice of the European Union strengthens the right to access to the file for victims of anticompetitive practices. According to the Court’s...more

European Commission — Trucks Cartel: Clarification on the Concept of ‘Single and Continuous Infringement’ and Its Impact on the...

Following the European Commission’s decision on the trucks cartel matter (European Commission, Sept. 27, 2017, AT.39824) that fined Scania up to €880 million (USD 950M), the General Court of the European Union rejected...more

Car Emissions Case: First Sanction of an Anti-competitive Agreement on Technical Development by the European Commission

On Nov. 12, 2021, the European Commission published its decision AT-40178 of July 8, 2021, fining BMW, Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche a total of 875 million euros for their involvement in a cartel within European Economic Area...more

Trucks Cartel: Within Four Months, the CJEU Provides Enlightening Procedural Clarifications on Follow-On Actions Through Two...

Following record fines imposed by the European Commission on the main European truck manufacturers, under preliminary references, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently ruled on certain procedural...more

Retail Price Maintenance: Dammann Frères Fined for Imposing Online Sale Price of Tea to Its Retailers

In Decision No. 20-D-20 issued on Dec. 3, 2020, the French Competition Authority fined the tea producer Dammann Frères €226,000 for forbidding its retailers to freely determine their own online resale prices for Dammann...more

French Competition Authority Overturns Its Decision-Making Practice: Coordination Between Subsidiaries in Calls for Tenders Is No...

According to the decision-making practice of the French Competition Authority (FCA), the coordination between subsidiaries of the same group when submitting coordinated but apparently independent offers in public tenders was...more

Cartels — Presumption of Decisive Influence by the Parent Company on Its Subsidiaries and Solidarity for the Payment of the...

On Oct. 28, 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled on one of the aspects of the proceedings relating to the power cable cartel, for which the main European, Japanese and South Korean manufacturers were fined a total of...more

European Commission Publishes Outcome of Evaluation of EU Competition Rules on Vertical Agreements

On Sept. 8, 2020, the European Commission published its Staff Working Document summarizing the findings of the evaluation of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) applicable to vertical agreements and the VBER’s...more

Mergers Control: French Competition Authority Publishes New Guidelines

The French Competition Authority has maintained its aim to modernize and simplify the merger control system, initiated in 2017, with the publication and entry into force on July 24 of its . This document replaces the...more

EU-Antitrust Law Framework Relating to the COVID-19 Crisis

European Commission publishes a temporary Framework for undertakings collaborating to address the shortage of essential products and services. ...more

Aumento dei prezzi e forza maggiore: quanto è importante scrivere correttamente le clausole dei vostri contratti

Con parere n. 19-9 del 25 ottobre 2019, la Commission d’examen des pratiques commerciales (la "CEPC") ovvero la Commissione francese per la valutazione delle pratiche commerciali, che ha il compito di vigilare sull’equilibrio...more

Relazioni commerciali fra imprese in Francia : le novità in materia di negoziazione introdotte dalla legge EGalim

Con l’inizio delle negoziazioni commerciali, bisogna tener presente che le novità introdotte dalla c.d. legge EGalim (n° 2018-938 del 30 ottobre 2018) per l’equilibrio delle relazioni commerciali nel settore alimentare e...more

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