European Commission Imposes Fine for Restrictions on Cross-Border Sales of Clothing -
On 28 November 2024, the European Commission (EC) announced a fine of €5.7 million on Pierre Cardin and its licensee Ahlers for...more
European Commission Investigates Disparagement Claims for the First Time -
On 4 March 2021, the European Commission announced an investigation into alleged anti-competitive conduct by pharmaceutical company Teva. The case...more
EU, UK Competition, State Aid and Public Procurement Law During COVID-19 Pandemic -
While not the most important concern, it should be appreciated that European Union and national antitrust/competition law, plus the state...more
Hotel Group Meliá Fined for Active and Passive Cross-Border Sales Restrictions in the EU -
On 21 February 2020, the European Commission announced a fine of €6.7 million on hotel group Meliá for including restrictive...more
Textbook Long-Term Cartel Fined in the EU -
On 27 September 2019, the European Commission announced it had fined two canned vegetable suppliers for participating in a cartel that ran for more than 13 years. Another...more
European Commission Finds Predatory Pricing of Chipsets -
For the first time in 16 years, the European Commission has imposed a fine for what the Commission found was an abuse of dominance by predatory pricing. Any company...more
Resale Price Maintenance Rules Apply to Members of Purchasing Cooperative -
On 29 January 2019, the German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, imposed a fine of €13.4 million on ZEG, a purchasing cooperative. The...more
Restrictions on Resellers’ Use of Third-Party Internet Platforms -
On 26 July 2017, Advocate General (AG) Nils Wahl of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down his opinion in the seminal Coty case concerning...more
More EU Investigations Into Licensing and Distribution Practices -
During June 2017, the European Commission launched yet more competition law investigations into licensing and distribution practices in the EU. The four...more
Watch the Treatment of Switzerland in Distribution Agreements -
On 29 September 2016, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court (FAC) handed down a judgment impacting any distribution agreement which could touch...more
The UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has said: “The country voted to leave the European Union, and as prime minister I will make sure that we leave the European Union.”
That seems like a clear statement, but the...more
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UK Brexit
Brexit will impact competition (or antitrust) law in the UK. There will likely be material changes in procedural law in particular. Changes to substantive law will probably be less significant, at least for most companies,...more
Ever since the publication in July 2009 of the report on its antitrust inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector, the European Commission (EC) has been monitoring patent settlement agreements between originator and generic...more