Giulia Carnazza is a senior associate at Ashurst Brussels. She graduated cum laude in Law from LUISS University of Rome (2011) and holds an LLM degree in European Law from ULB (2016). She qualified as a lawyer at the Rome Bar in December 2014. In July 2012 she joined Ashurst Competition team firstly in the Rome office and then joined the Brussels team in October 2015. Giulia Carnazza is specialised in Competition and Consumer law. She assists clients before the Italian Competition Authority, the EU Commission and Courts in relation to cartel and abuse of dominance cases, as well as in relation to antitrust damages actions. She has also good experience in merger control cases and in drafting competition compliance programmes.
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On 15 September 2021, the Italian administrative court of first instance ("TAR Lazio") upheld the appeal brought by Vodafone Italia S.p.A. ("Vodafone") against the decision of the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA") of 13 December 2017 in case A500(A). The TAR Lazio found that the ICA had (...)
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On 13 May 2021 the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA") published a decision fining and imposing behavioural remedies on Google for conduct deemed to constitute an abuse of a dominant position, by preventing Enel X from developing an app compatible with the Android Auto feature. Key (...)
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On 25 April 2021, the Italian Government submitted its Recovery and Resilience National Plan ("PNRR") to the national Parliament, which included proposals on competition law reform by the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA"). Key takeaways Reforming competition law is among the priorities of (...)
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On 20 January 2021 the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") upheld the General Court’s ruling on the European Commission’s duty to pay default interest on reimbursed fines as a form of restitutio in integrum, clarifying the rate to be applied and that late payment of interest will itself incur (...)
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On 12 December 2020, Italy’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, upheld the annulment of the Italian Competition Authority’s ("ICA") decision to fine broadcasters Mediaset and Sky Italia, the Italian Football League, and marketing agency Infront a total of €66m for an alleged (...)
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On 27 October 2020 the Italian Competition Authority ("AGCM") issued a EUR 27 million fine to the Italian Consortium for the Collection, Recycling and Recovery of Plastic Packaging (COREPLA) for abusing its dominant position in the Italian market for management of plastic waste services. WHAT (...)
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On 21 October 2020 the Italian Administrative Court of First Instance ("TAR Lazio") annulled the decision issued by the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA") on 20 December 2018 sanctioning a number of car manufacturers and their "captive banks" in relation to an alleged cartel concerning car (...)
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On 15 September 2020 the Italian Competition Authority ("AGCM") fined three companies active in the production and distribution of energy for failure to notify a concentration before its closing, rejecting the parties’ claim that the concentration was interdependent on a second transaction that (...)
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On 3 September 2020, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that a restriction imposed by an Italian law on acquisitions in the broadcasting and audiovisual sectors is contrary to the fundamental EU law principle of the freedom of establishment enshrined in Article 49 of the Treaty on the (...)
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This foreword on Internet and Antitrust covers lots of interesting articles of the last 3 years on some of the major developments in the Internet space at EU and national levels. Indeed, it is always fascinating to get insights from the many practitioners and enforcers who have contributed to this wealth of knowledge on complex and evolving issues... not least because, in a fast-approaching future, articles may be written by AI authors who will surely tell us ALL we wanted to know about algorithm collusion, big data, etc.
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Several contributions lodged within the framework of the public consultation on a possible review of Regulation 1/2003 have claimed, sometimes vigorously, that the European Commission should seek to reform Regulation 1/2003 in a manner that does not only focus on strengthening the powers of the (...)
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