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