Boycott

CCI issues cease and desist order against Chemists Associations for indulging in anticompetitive practices * The Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’) issued an order on 23.08.2023 against district and tehsil level chemists associations in Sriganganagar district, Rajasthan (‘OPs’) which (...)

On 29 June 2023, the ECJ handed down a preliminary ruling on various questions referred to it by a Portuguese court in the context of an appeal against an infringement decision of the Portuguese Competition Authority finding that a beverage supplier had engaged in resale price maintenance (...)

Competition Commission conducts another search regarding fish wholesale case in Aberdeen and invites fishery industry to provide information* The Competition Commission (Commission) conducted another round of operation in its ongoing investigation codenamed “White Whale” on the morning of 20 (...)

On May 16, 2023, the Italian Competition Authority (“AGCM” or “ICA”) launched an investigation to determine whether the Italian Football Federation (Federazione Italian Giuoco Calcio, or “FIGC”) abused a dominant position in breach of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the (...)

Competition Commission conducts search regarding fish wholesale case in Aberdeen* The Competition Commission (Commission), assisted by the Hong Kong Police Force, executed search warrants this morning at a number of premises, including a vessel, at the Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market (Fish (...)

Advocate General Rantos: The FIFA-UEFA rules under which any new competition is subject to prior approval are compatible with EU competition law* Whilst ESLC is free to set up its own independent football competition outside the UEFA and FIFA ecosystem, it cannot however, in parallel with (...)

Advocate General Rantos proposes that the judgment of the General Court which had confirmed the anticompetitive nature of rules of the International Skating Union should be set aside* He proposes that the case be referred back to the General Court The International Skating Union (‘the (...)

In two separate non-binding opinions in Super League and International Skating Union issued on 15 December 2022, Advocate General Rantos concluded that sports federations can – under certain circumstances – impose pre-authorisation requirements on third party events without violating EU (...)

On 15 December 2022, Advocate General (“AG”) Rantos issued an opinion in the European Superleague Company case in which he recommended that the FIFA-UEFA rules on the prior approval of new sports competitions should be held to be compatible with Articles 101 and 102 TFEU. The AG considered (...)

On 15 December 2022, Advocate General (“AG”) Rantos issued an opinion in which he recommended that the Court of Justice of the EU should set aside a General Court judgment largely upholding a 2017 Commission decision that the eligibility rules of the International Skating Union (the “ISU”) had (...)

By now the issues surrounding the Super League need no further introduction. On the one hand, there are monopolists that potentially abuse their dominant position, whereas, on the other hand, there is a controversial collective of clubs, seeking to change or expand Europe’s current football (...)

Abstract The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was requested to consider whether the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which (according to the Court) has “conferred on itself the exclusive power to organize pan-European competitions” between football clubs, could (...)

Niemann Makes the First Move: A Transatlantic Perspective on Chess Prodigy’s Group Boycott Claim Following cheating allegations and a ban from the popular online platform “Chess.com,” Chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Missouri against Magnus Carlsen, (...)

CFMEU and Hutchinson to pay penalties for boycott conduct* The Federal Court has today ordered the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and construction company J Hutchinson Pty Ltd (Hutchinson) to pay penalties of $750,000 and $600,000 respectively for boycott (...)

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson on June 24 sent shockwaves through the United States and around the world (U.S. Supreme Court, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. ___ (2022)). The much-discussed decision reversed the famous 1973 Roe v. Wade (...)