On 23 November 2011, the Swedish Market Court handed down its judgment in Uppsala Taxi 100 000 AB (“Uppsala Taxi”) v. Europark Svenska Aktiebolag (“Europark”) and Swedavia AB (“Swedavia”). Uppsala Taxi brought proceedings against Europark and Swedavia (the “Defendants”) for an alleged abuse of a (...)

Background The electricity company, Ekfors AB (Ekfors) had provided electricity to two communes in the north of Sweden, Övertornea and Happaranda (the communes) for almost 50 years. In 2002, Ekfors announced that it was planning to raise the price for the provision of electricity for road and (...)

Introduction This article comments on the most comprehensive cartel case in Swedish history. On 10 July 2007, the Stockholm City Court (SCC) delivered its nearly 600 page ruling in the Asphalt Cartel case. Although this case concerns the highest amount of fines ever imposed in a (...)

Swedish Market Court (Marknadsdomstolen), 5 June 2007, Tidnings Aktiebolaget Metro v. Stockholm City i Sverige AB, Expressen AB, Dagens Nyheter AB, Case Dnr A 9/05 On the 5th of June 2007, the Swedish Market Court ruled on Tidnings Aktiebolaget Metro v. Stockholm City i Sverige AB - a case (...)

Introduction This case is interesting as it is one of the few state aid cases that has been brought before a Swedish court. Although, there will be no final judgment on the case it represents a positive development in the application of EC law at national level, in particular, since the (...)

Introduction Since Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, the Swedish courts have been reluctant to make preliminary references to the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) in all fields of law. Up until 2006, the Swedish courts had made on average 5 preliminary references per year, in (...)