Giulio Matarazzi is Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property and Competition Law at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich. Previously, he was an associate at BonelliErede. He graduated cum laude from the Rome L.U.I.S.S. Guido Carli University in 2013, with a dissertation on EU Antitrust Law.
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In its decision of 19 April 2016, the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) imposed fines totalling EUR 66 million on Sky and Mediaset, the main television operators in the pay-tv market, and on the Italian Football League (“Lega Calcio”) and its advisor Infront, for breach of Article 101 of (...)
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By its decision of 11 March 2016 , the Italian Administrative Court of Last Instance (“Council of State”) referred to the European Court of Justice certain preliminary questions raised by Novartis and Roche in the appeals brought against the judgment of the Administrative Court of First (...)
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With a decision of 7 October 2015, following the complaints lodged by one of the local health units in the city of Milan (“ASL Milan”) and the purchasing consortium of the Campania Region (“Soresa”), the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) opened an investigation into 14 companies (...)
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1. Introduction This paper aims to describe abuses of dominant position in the pharmaceutical sector. Pharmaceutical companies are particularly exposed to this type of infringement because they are often in a dominant position with regard to innovative products, as medicinal products are (...)
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With Decision No. 25508 of 4 June 2015, the Italian Competition Authority (the “ICA”), accepted the commitments proposed by Novartis Farma S.p.A. (“Novartis”) and Italfarmaco S.p.A. (“Italfarmaco”, together the “Parties”) and closed the investigation opened following a complaint lodged by the (...)
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In its decision of 6 June 2015 the Italian Supreme Court annulled the previous decision of the Court of Appeal of Rome , which had rejected the claim brought by a number of fruit and vegetable wholesalers (the “Wholesalers”) against Cargest - the company that manages the fruit and vegetable (...)
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In its decision of 10 March 2015, the Italian Competition Authority (the “ICA” or the “Authority”) decided to open Phase II proceedings in relation to the merger notified on 25 February consisting of EI Towers S.p.A.’s (“EI Towers”) hostile takeover bid over 100% of Rai Way S.p.A.’s (“Rai Way” (...)
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In its decision of 22 October 2014 the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) adopted the Guidelines on modalities of implementation of criteria for quantification of administrative penalties imposed by the Italian Competition Authority under Section 1, Article 15, of Law No. 287 of 10 October (...)
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In its decision of 8 April 2014 the Italian Administrative Court of Last Instance (“Council of State”) overruled the previous decision of the Administrative Court of First Instance (“TAR Lazio”) and confirmed the legitimacy of the decision of the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) , which (...)
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Interim measures are a tool for competition authorities to guarantee the effective enforcement of antitrust law. They ensure that, while an investigation is ongoing, no irreparable damage is caused to competition which could no longer be remedied by the decision adopted at the conclusion of the proceedings.
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In its decision of 27 February 2014, the Italian Competition Authority (the “ICA” or the “Authority”), following the complaints lodged by the Italian Ophthalmological Society (“SOI” - Società oftalmologica italiana) and an association of private healthcare hospitals (“AIUDAPDS” - Associazione (...)
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2015 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
