Lina Vitolo is the general counsel and data protection officer at Iliad. Lina Vitolo was an Attorney at UPS Europe since October 2013. Prior to that, she joined Legance Studio Legale Associato in April 2008 as an associate in the UE, antitrust and regulation department of the Rome office. Her practice covers a broad range of EC competition law and regulatory matters including merger clearance, litigation on cartels, EC state aid rules violations and unfair commercial practice/misleading advertising. She graduated at LUISS University in Rome in 2005. Before joining Legance, she was a trainee at the legal service of the Italian competition authority and worked for a law firm in Brussels and Rome. She was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2008. Her native language is Italian, and she is fluent in English and French.
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Introduction On 20 April 2011, the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA") adopted a decision closing the investigation launched in May 2010 against nine oil companies, Alma Petroli S.p.A., Api-Anonima Petroli Italiana S.p.A., ERG Petroli S.p.A., Eni S.p.A., Esso Italiana S.r.l., IES-Italiana (...)
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Background On March 24, 2010, the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) issued its first cartel decision based on a leniency application, approximately 3 years after the ICA officially adopted its Leniency Program. The case concerns a ten-year cartel between the three main Italian suppliers of (...)
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Background With two decisions issued on 22 April 2009, the Italian Administrative Tribunal (Tribunale Amministrativo Regonale, “TAR”) ruled on the power of the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) to accept commitments offered by undertakings under investigation for alleged anticompetitive (...)
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Background On 20 September 2007, the ICA opened a proceeding regarding car assistance services provided in Italy on motorways, alleging that a) the motorways companies had breached Article 3 of Law 287/90 (national provision similar to art. 82 EC) and b) the roadside assistance providers, (...)
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Background On 24 October 2007, the Italian Competition Authority (Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato) fined two leading producers of autoclaved cellular concrete (ACC), namely Xella International GmbH (Xella) and RDB S.p.A. (RDB) alleging that they had entered into some form of (...)
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Introduction On 3 August 2007, the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) adopted a decision fining four ostomy device manufacturers for an alleged bid rigging. The decision is interesting as it shows the difficulty that pharmaceutical companies face when participating in a tender procedure. In (...)
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Background On 29 April 2004, the Italian Antitrust Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) cleared the acquisition by the national public broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. (Rai), of 11 going concerns composed of 84 digital broadcasting networks, including the (...)
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Background Following a specific request by the parties, the Italian Antitrust Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato), at its meeting on 12 June 2003, decided to revoke the conditions originally imposed on Premafin Finanziaria S.p.A. (Premafin) and Mediobanca Banca di (...)
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Background On 13 November 1997 the ICA issued its first decision regarding the compatibility of a franchise contract with the prohibition of anticompetitive agreements. The agreement which was assessed by the ICA regarded the franchising network set up by Il Tucano Franchising for the retail (...)
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