Emanuela Matei

I. Background The Schindler Group is a leading supplier of elevators, escalators and related services. Schindler’s operations cover 140 countries worldwide and involve a large number of national subsidiaries, including Schindler Belgium, Schindler Luxembourg, Schindler Netherlands and Schindler (...)

I. Introduction Any natural or legal person who can show a legitimate interest may lodge a complaint concerning an antitrust infringement as stipulated by article 7 of the Regulation No 1/2003. The Commission is not required to investigate each of the complaints lodged with it, but only to (...)

Background The present case concerns a combined set of two actions lodged by DB Schenker against ESA on 9 July 2012: an action for failure to act under Article 37 SCA and an action for non-contractual liability based on Article 46 SCA. At the origin of the present litigation we can find the (...)

I. Introduction The main pursuit of this article is to analyse the judgment of CJEU by comparing it to the conclusions provided by AG Jääskinen on the 7 February 2013. The facts have been described previously in my article from e-Competitions N°51003. The Austrian Consent Rule as enshrined by (...)

I. Introduction Konkurrensverket (Swedish Competition Authority) applied for public procurement fines against the Migrationsverket (Swedish Immigration Office) before the court of first instance on the 17 June 2011. The value of the contract in question exceeded € 8 million (SEK 69 million), (...)

Introduction The decision in discussion was issued by the European Commission on 2 May 2013 and established that the public service delegation contract for passenger shipping services between Marseille and Corsica did not satisfy the four cumulative conditions set out in Altmark. The (...)

I. Introduction On the 17 of February 2011 the Court of Justice of the European Union released its preliminary ruling in Case C-52/09 Konkurrensverket v TeliaSonera. At the origin of this litigation we could find an application for summons issued by Konkurrensverket on 21 December 2004. After (...)

The irremediable impairment of the rights of defence may arise from the disregard of the right to the inviolability of domicile Introduction ...whilst it is true that the rights of the defence must be observed in administrative procedures which may lead to the imposition of penalties, it is (...)

1. Introduction In March 2013 Danish Competition and Consumer Authority has issued new guidelines concerning access to justice in competition law matters. The formulation is direct and pedagogically constructed. The addressees are advised on how to bring a complaint against an undertaking and (...)

I. Introduction This state aid judgment of the CJEU refers to credit guarantees under the form of a non-implemented shareholder loan agreement and the relation between the advantages conferred on the beneficiary and the allocation of state resources. The General Court judgment adopted an (...)

I. Introduction OECD’s list of uncooperative tax havens has become the world’s shortest black list, only two small islands in Pacific being listed as uncooperative tax havens. The use of legal methods to modify a corporation’s financial situation in order to lower the amount of corporate tax owed (...)

I. Introduction Should the competition authorities bring proceedings against subjectively innocent undertakings? The assumption made by the respondents in the present case was that their own conduct was lawful and this hypothesis of lawfulness could be strengthened by the fact that during a (...)

I. Introduction The main pursuit of this article is to use the opportunity given by the present case in order to revisit the apparent dichotomy existent between private and public enforcement of competition law. My claim is that the two avenues must be seen as complementary rather than (...)

I. Introduction The applicants in the present case, collectively named ‘DB Schenker‘ have argued successfully for the annulment of the decision from 16 August 2011 adopted by EFTA Surveillance Authority (hereinafter ‘ESA’). Schenker Privpak AS and Schenker Privpak AB are limited liability (...)

I. Introduction On 6 December 2012, the CJEU issued its judgment in the long-running AstraZeneca litigation. The General Court’s judgment has been upheld in its entirety. The only victorious battle scored by the appellant refers to what type of conduct before the national regulatory authorities (...)

I. Introduction Breaching of a seal constitutes a serious violation of the Commission’s investigative powers in the competition field for which fines not exceeding 1 % of the undertaking’s turnover may be imposed. On 15 April 2008, E.ON Energie brought an action for annulment against a (...)

I. Introduction The dissemination of historical information can still imply certain risks for the public or private interest and require confidential treatment. The present case refers to an action for annulment comprising a claim of confidential treatment of the information contained by (...)

I. Introduction The applicants in the present case seek the annulment of Commission decision of 9 January 2009 ordering them to submit to an inspection in accordance with article 20(4) of Regulation No 1/2003 as well as the way in which it was executed. In the context of an investigation the (...)

I. Introduction In the field of competition law the Commission plays multiple roles and acts against several forms of anticompetitive activities prohibited by Articles 101 and 102 TFEU, if the interstate trade criterion is satisfied. National competition authorities may apply the above named (...)

I. Introduction The staff banquet day organized by Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (’Agency’) on the 23 May 2012 has been awarded to New Grand Hotel AB without prior advertisement. The value of the contract is of approximately SEK 600,000 (more exactly of SEK 608,908). The Swedish (...)

I. Introduction From the reference for preliminary ruling it follows unmistakably that the proceedings before the referring Court concern an infringement of the national competition law and that Article 101 TFEU is only circuitously contemplated. According to AG Cruz Villalón the reference to (...)

I. Introduction The tender documentation of the award procedure concerned with a procurement contract of audit services by Västervik municipal authorities comprised erroneous information. The error consisted in disregarding the provisions of the Swedish constitutional law, namely the article (...)

A. Essential factual and legal aspects The shipping company, Corsica Ferries France SAS, applicant in the present dispute, offers regular ferry services to Corsica departing from continental France (Marseille, Toulon and Nice) and Italy. The shipping company and beneficiary of the aid measure (...)

I. Introduction The building project in this case involves the modification andexpansion of an existing construction, namely the building of the University of Agricultural Sciences situated in the municipality of Umeå. The value of the contract is of approximately SEK 39 million. The Swedish (...)

I. Essential factual and legal aspects of the Expedia Inc Case The reference for a preliminary ruling has been initiated by a dispute between Expedia, an on-line travel agency, and the French Competition Authority, henceforth called FCA, concerning a selling joint-venture agreement between (...)

I. Introduction A tenderer who otherwise would have won the procurement procedure, if the procurement law had been correctly applied by the contracting authority shall be entitled to receive compensation for the positive contractual interest. Moreover the liability to pay damages does not (...)