Charlotte de Meeûs is an associate at Van Bael & Bellis based in Brussels. She joined the firm in 2020 and her practice focuses on Belgian business law, as well as on all aspects of Belgian and EU competition law. Prior to joining Van Bael & Bellis, Charlotte de Meeûs worked as a Bluebook trainee at the European Commission (DG COMP). She also gained experience working as a Competition Law summer associate in the Brussels offices of leading law firms.
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On 12 January 2023, the European Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) delivered a judgment in Case C-57/21, RegioJet, in which it clarified the provisions governing the disclosure of evidence contained in Directive 2014/104/EU of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for (...)
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On 6 January 2023, the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control of the French government (DGCCRF) announced its decision to fine three metal recycling companies a total of € 148,000 for entering into non-compete and no-poach agreements in the context of a merger. (...)
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On 6 October 2022, the Court of Appeal of Paris (“the Court”) granted a partial reformation of the decision of the French Competition Authority (“FCA”) of 16 March 2020 concerning practices related to the distribution of certain Apple products (the “FCA Decision”) and reduced by twothirds the (...)
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On 8 November 2022, the French Competition Authority (the “FCA”) published its decision of 6 October 2022 imposing a fine totalling EUR 81 million on companies belonging to Essilor group (“Essilor”) for having engaged in discriminatory business practices over a period of nearly 12 years in the (...)
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On 22 June 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) clarified the temporal application of the Directive 2014/104/EU of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions (“Damages Directive”) to (...)
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On 2 February 2022, the General Court of the European Union delivered a judgment in which it upheld the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision to impose a fine of €880.5 million on Scania for participating in a cartel for 14 years with five other truck manufacturers (Case T-799/17, Scania v. (...)
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On 19 January 2021, the Romanian Competition Council (“RCC”) imposed fines totalling € 26.6 million on 31 companies for engaging in concerted practices aimed at sharing wood lots and supply sources on the wood processing market. The RCC found that the companies coordinated their conduct between (...)
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On 12 January 2021, the Romanian Competition Council (“RCC”) imposed fines totalling € 8.47 million on the Association of Romanian Financial Companies and sixteen of its members for exchanging commercially sensitive information such as information concerning assets values, current and future (...)
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On 7 January 2021, the Romanian Competition Council (“RCC”) imposed fines totalling € 26.5 million on nine companies for fixing the prices of agricultural machinery and equipment between 2014 and 2018. The companies involved in the infringement were Claas Global Sales, Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer, (...)
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On 29 December 2020, the Romanian Competition Council (the “RCC”) imposed a fine of € 6.7 million on Dante International, which owns and administers a Romanian online marketplace, for abusing its dominant position. The RCC found that between 2013 and 2019 Dante International violated the (...)
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On 3 December 2020, the Romanian Competition Council (“RCC”) published a study on the effects of Big Data on competition (the “Study”). The Study explains that the use of algorithmic models helps companies adjust their prices in real time, depending on changes in market demand. However, these (...)
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On 29 October 2020, the President of the General Court (“GC”) issued two orders suspending the operation of requests for information (“RFIs”) issued to Facebook Ireland Ltd (“Facebook”) by the European Commission (“Commission”) concerning documents that are not related to Face- book’s commercial (...)
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On 16 October 2020, the Romanian government published Ordinance No. 170/2020 on actions for damages in cases of violation of the competition law provisions and modifying and supplementing Romanian Competition Law No. 21/1996 (the “Ordinance”). The Ordinance provides that cartel infringements are (...)
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On 24 September 2020, the Romanian Competition Council (“RCC”) imposed fines totalling € 468,000 on five companies for engaging in bid-rigging in relation to public tenders concerning the refurbishment of certain streets in the Romanian city of Pitesti. The investigation started in 2018 following (...)
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On 3 September 2020, the Belgian Competition Authority adopted new guidelines on the method of setting fines for competition law infringements (the “Fining Guidelines”). The Fining Guidelines were published in the Belgian Official Journal on 16 September 2020 and entered into force immediately. (...)
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