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21 Dec 2020 B

The Spanish Competition Authority initiates proceedings against the Catalan National Assembly for the launch of an anticompetitive advertising campaign (Catalan National Assembly)

Spanish Competition Authority • January 2021

The CNMC initiates disciplinary proceedings against the Catalan National Assembly.* It investigates potentially unfair practices involving the launch of the “Strategic Consumption” campaign. This campaign encourages consumers not to buy certain products for reasons unrelated to competition (...)

18 Dec 2020 B

The Australian Competition Authority proposes to authorise national dairy farmers association licensing scheme (Fair Go Dairy)

Australian Competition Authority • January 2021

ACCC proposes to authorise ’Fair Go Dairy’ licensing scheme* The ACCC is proposing to authorise the Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation Limited’s (QDO) Fair Go Dairy licensing scheme for five years. Under the scheme, QDO will grant processors a licence to use the ‘Fair Go Dairy’ logo on (...)

15 Dec 2020 B

The EU Commission announces a package of digital markets legislation intended to better regulate major online platforms and to protect consumers and businesses

Lesley Hannah, Kio Gwilliam • January 2021

On 15th December, the European Commission announced a package of digital markets legislation intended to give the Commission the power to better regulate major online platforms and to protect European consumers and businessess for effectively: the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets (...)

13 Nov 2020 B

The Slovak Competition Authority fines a company for a failure to submit required documentation and information within a stipulated time limit and the submission of false information (Slovenská pošta)

Slovak Competition Authority • November 2020

AMO SR imposed a fine on the undertaking Slovenská pošta, a.s., for a failure to submit required documentation and information within a stipulated time limit and the submission of false information – additional information* On 29 October 2020 the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, the (...)

26 Oct 2020 B

The Slovak Competition Authority fines the national postal service company for failure to submit required documentation within a stipulated time limit and for submission of false information in the on-going investigation into the field of production and delivery of mass-delivered letter consignments and advertising addressed consignments (Slovenská pošta)

Slovak Competition Authority • October 2020

AMO SR imposed a fine on the undertaking Slovenská pošta, a.s., for a failure to submit required documentation and information within a stipulated time limit and the submission of false information* On 26 October 2020 the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, the Division of Abuse of (...)

16 Oct 2020 B

The UK Competition Authority accepts commitment by major photo-sharing platform to tackle hidden advertising by social media influencers (Instagram Social Media Endorsements)

UK Competition Authority • October 2020

Instagram to tackle hidden advertising after CMA action* Following CMA action, Instagram will do more to prevent hidden advertising on its app and website, signalling an important behaviour shift by a major platform. Facebook Ireland Ltd, which operates Instagram in the UK, has committed to a (...)

8 Oct 2020 B

The Australian Federal Court fines a price comparison website for making false or misleading representations when comparing and selling electricity plans (iSelect)

Ross Zaurrini • October 2020

On 8 October 2020, the Federal Court of Australia ordered iSelect Limited ("iSelect") to pay a pecuniary penalty of AUD 8.5 million for making false or misleading representations ‎on its website when comparing and selling electricity plans, in contravention of the Australian Consumer Law (...)

2 Oct 2020 B

The Australian Federal Court fines an event ticket reseller for misleading representations (Viagogo)

Ross Zaurrini • October 2020

On 2 October 2020, the Federal Court of Australia ordered viagogo AG ("viagogo"), a Swiss-based company, to pay a pecuniary penalty of AUD 7 million for making false or misleading representations when reselling event tickets, in contravention of the Australian Consumer Law ("ACL"). The Court (...)

14 Sep 2020 B

The Spanish Competition Authority investigates unauthorized merger operations and antitrust practices in the funeral insurance and funeral services sectors

Spanish Competition Authority • September 2020

The CNMC investigates the possible execution of unauthorised mergers, as well as potential antitrust practices involving the funeral insurance and funeral services markets.* From 8 to 10 September, dawn raids were carried out at the headquarters of various companies active in the aboved (...)

9 Sep 2020 B

The French Competition Authority fines three laboratories for abusive practices (Novartis / Roche / Genentech)

French Competition Authority • September 2020

Treatment for AMD: the Autorité fines 3 laboratories for abusive practices* The Autorité de la concurrence has imposed fines worth a total of €444 million on three pharmaceutical companies, Novartis, Roche and Genentech, for abusive practices designed to sustain the sales of Lucentis for AMD (...)

9 Sep 2020 B

The French Competition Authority imposes a fine worth a total of €444 million on three pharmaceutical companies for collective abuse of dominance practices designed to sustain the sale of an expensive drug (Novartis / Roche / Genentech)

Michaël Cousin • September 2020

The French Competition Authority ("FCA") has issued a rare decision sanctioning three laboratories active in treatment of age-related macular degeneration on the basis of collective abuse of dominance practices designed to sustain the sale of an expensive drug, Lucentis, to the detriment of a (...)

9 Sep 2020 B

The French Competition Authority fines 3 laboratories for abusive efforts to segment market (Novartis / Roche / Genentech)

Samuel Hall • September 2020

Background On 9 September 2020, the French Competition Authority (the “FCA”) imposed a fine of € 444 million on Genentech, Novartis and Roche for abusing their collective dominant position on the market for the commercialisation of drugs for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) (...)

1 Sep 2020 B

The Australian Competition Authority secures a first-ever individual guilty plea for obstructing a cartel investigation from the infringing company’s general manager (BlueScope Steel)

Australian Competition Authority • September 2020

Ex BlueScope GM Jason Ellis pleads guilty to obstructing cartel investigation* Jason Ellis, a former general manager of sales and marketing at BlueScope Steel Limited (BlueScope), has today entered a guilty plea in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court to one charge of inciting the obstruction of (...)

28 Jul 2020 B

The Hungarian Competition Authority investigates therapeutic claims attributed to cosmetic products containing C-peptide as consumers are subjected to unfair commercial practices due to COVID-19 (Vargapeptide)

László Zlatarov, Dániel Aranyi • July 2020

The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) keeps a watchful eye over advertisement claims regarding alleged COVID-19 treatments that exploit the vulnerability of consumers in the current pandemic. The GVH initiated an investigation against Max-Immun Kft. in May (VJ/22/2020), because of its (...)

6 May 2020 B

The Canadian Competition Authority announces that they are increasing their enforcement of deceptive COVID-19 marketing claims

Steve Szentesi • May 2020

Competition Bureau Escalates Enforcement of the Competition Act For COVID-19 Related Marketing Claims* On May 6, 2020, the Competition Bureau (Bureau) announced that it was increasing its enforcement of deceptive COVID-19 marketing claims (see: Competition Bureau cracking down on deceptive (...)

27 Mar 2020 B

The Australian Competition Authority announces a re-focus of its 2020 compliance and enforcement priorities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Lynne Lewis, Megan Edwards, Tom Macken, Thomas Jones • March 2020

Due to the rapidly changing global landscape, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced on 27 March 2020 a "re-focus" of its 2020 Compliance and Enforcement Priorities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While it has not explicitly revoked its existing priorities, which we (...)

18 Mar 2020 B

The Hungarian Competition Authority reopens a previously approved acquisition between two telecommunication players on the basis that the parties submitted false and misleading data during the notification and approval procedure (Invitel / GVH)

Daniel Arányi, László Zlatarov • March 2020

The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) finally approved the acquisition of Invitel by DIGI, both significant players on the Hungarian telecoms market. However, with with a complex remedies package as published on 18 March 2020 (Vj/42/2018). As we already reported, the approval of the merger (...)

17 Mar 2020 B

The Italian Competition Authority initiates a proceeding against the sale of a generic drug for the treatment of HIV infections sold as a remedy to fight the COVID-19 virus (Kaletra)

Cristina Poncibò, Francesca Bichiri • March 2020

1.Introduction The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic is unfortunately accompanied by the equally rapid one of unfair commercial practices in Italy. A worrying scenario, also for potential, serious effects on people’s health, on which the Italian Competition Authority (‘ICA’) continues to keep the (...)

13 Mar 2020 B

The Ukrainian Competition Authority issues recommendations to pharmacies and retailers against excessive prices for masks, examines price hikes for airline tickets, and monitors prices for disinfectants and consumption basket products

Anastasia Usova • March 2020

As with other competition authorities, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") is responding promptly during the coronavirus outbreak. On 13 March 2020, the AMC announced that it would investigate any unjustified price hikes for medicines, face masks and other personal health (...)

12 Mar 2020 B

The Italian Competition Authority publishes two investigations against online platforms with regards to some claims relating to the marketing of hand sanitising, respiratory masks and hygiene products (Amazon / eBay)

Italian Competition Authority • March 2020

Coronavirus, the Authority begins investigating Amazon and eBay for misleading claims and excessive price increases.* The Authority launched two separate investigations today against the Amazon platform (Amazon Italia Customer Service, Amazon Eu, Amazon Service Europe) and eBay platform (eBay (...)

9 Mar 2020 B

The US DOJ and FTC publish a statement on the violation of antitrust laws in connection with the manufacturing, distribution, or sale of public health products during the COVID-19 situation

Thomas Dillickrath, Nadezhda Nikonova • March 2020

DOJ and FTC To Focus On Antitrust and Consumer Protection Violations Relating to Coronavirus* The rapidly evolving COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation is impacting local and global companies, disrupting supply chains, creating volatility in the stock market, and causing great concern in local (...)

9 Mar 2020 B

The US DoJ and FTC warn companies and would-be scammers that they will use their consumer protection and competition enforcement powers to go after anyone trying to take advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak

Zarema Jaramillo, Leiv Blad, Jeffrey Blumenfeld • March 2020

COVID-19: The Reaction of U.S. Antitrust Agencies* COVID-19 has impacted nearly every aspect of American life right now, and there are myriad legal issues companies are facing from the pandemic’s fallout. These include antitrust considerations, ranging from potentially criminal conduct to (...)

27 Feb 2020 B

The Italian Competition Authority investigates online sales platforms for excessive pricing of hand sanitizers and respiratory protection masks in the face of COVID-19 outbreak in the country

Italian Competition Authority • February 2020

ICA: Coronavirus, the Authority intervenes in the sale of sanitizing products and masks* Today the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (the Italian Antitrust Authority) sent a request for information to the main online sales platforms and other sales sites about the marketing of (...)

13 Feb 2020 B

The Canadian Competition Authority fines $1.3 million for allegedly failing to adequately disclose the full price of tickets in the online ticket seller market (StubHub)

Steve Szentesi • February 2020

The Price, the Whole Price and Nothing But the Price: StubHub Pays $1.3 Million Penalty Following Bureau Drip Pricing Probe* The Competition Bureau’s (Bureau) top priority for enforcement and advocacy is currently the digital economy (see, for example, here, here, here, here and here). And for (...)

13 Feb 2020 B

The Canadian Competition Authority levies $1.3 million fine for alleged misleading representations in online sales of event tickets (Stubhub)

Gavin Murphy • February 2020

Introduction There are no rock bottom bargains on offer at StubHub Canada Ltd as Canadian consumers found out the hard way, falling victim to a possible case of drip pricing. StubHub Canada Ltd is a subsidiary of StubHub Inc, an American exchange and resale ticket company that offers services (...)

15 Jan 2020 B

The Polish Competition Authority fines €28,5 million a cars importer for misleading customers on the level of exhaust gas emissions and affecting how consumers’ legitimate complaints were considered by car dealers (Volkswagen)

Marcin Alberski, Piotr Dynowski • January 2020

Following four years of proceedings, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (’’UOKiK’’) fined Volkswagen Group Poland (a Polish importer of Volkswagen Group cars) for misleading customers about the level of exhaust gas emissions and affecting how consumers’ legitimate complaints were (...)

20 Dec 2019 B

The Australian Federal Court orders a car manufacturer to pay $125 million in penalties for breaching national consumer law by making false representations relating to its compliance with the diesel emissions standards (Volkswagen)

Tom Macken, Thomas Jones • December 2019

In December 2019, the Federal Court ordered the German car manufacturer, Volkswagen AG, to pay AUD$125 million in penalties for engaging in a breach of Australia’s consumer law (the Australian Consumer Law ("ACL")) by making false representations relating to its compliance with Australian diesel (...)

20 Dec 2019 B

The Australian Federal Court rejects the Competition Authority’s dieselgate settlement and imposes a record $125 million fine on an automobile manufacturer for breaches of national consumer law (Volkswagen)

Melissa Fraser, Peter Armitage, Ross Zaurrini, Alyssa Phillips • December 2019

What you need to know The Court imposed a penalty amount AUD 50 million higher than had been agreed between the parties, bucking the recent trend of the Court reducing penalties proposed by the ACCC. The AUD 125 million penalty was calculated under the old ACL penalty regime where the maximum (...)

19 Dec 2019 B

The Canadian Competition Bureau announces that agencies and brands involved in influencer marketing have to comply with the Competition Act

Steve Szentesi • December 2019

INFLUENCER ADVERTISING: COMPETITION BUREAU INCREASES PRESSURE ON BRANDS AND AGENCIES TO COMPLY WITH THE COMPETITION ACT* Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the Competition Bureau’s new guidelines for influencer advertising. While the Bureau’s new guidelines (...)

6 Dec 2019 B

The Hungarian Competition Authority fines €3,5 million a social network company for unfair commercial practices (Facebook)

Daniel Arányi, László Zlatarov • December 2019

On 6 December 2019, the Hungarian Competition Office ("GVH") found that Facebook’s practice of referring to its services as “free” on its cover page and Help Centre misled Hungarian users. As a consequence, the GVH held that Facebook violated the Hungarian Unfair Commercial Practices Act ("UCPA") (...)

29 Oct 2019 B

The Australian Competition Authority takes an action against an online platform company for allegedly engaging in misleading conduct and making false or misleading representations to customers (Google)

Tom Macken, Thomas Jones • October 2019

In October 2019, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (“ACCC") decided to take action against Google LLC and Google Australia Pty Ltd (collectively, "Google") in the Federal Court of Australia for allegedly engaging in misleading conduct and making false or misleading (...)

28 Oct 2019 B

The Canadian Competition Bureau takes steps against misleading representations in online sales of airline tickets (FlightHub)

Gavin Murphy • October 2019

The old adage appears to ring true yet again: If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Canada’s Competition Bureau (Bureau), which assists the Commissioner of Competition (Commissioner) in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (Act), announced on 28 October 2019 that (...)

16 Sep 2019 B

The Hungarian Competition Authority imposes a fine on social media influencers for breach of commitments (Alakreform / Avanzo)

Daniel Arányi, László Zlatarov • September 2019

Fines are on the horizon for social media influencers not aligning their practice as set out by the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), as may be deduced from the GVH’s Rubint decision of 16 September 2019. The case roots back to 2016, when the GVH started investigating social media (...)

31 Jul 2019 B

The Hungarian Competition Authority accepts commitments from insurance companies to compensate the incomplete information provided to costumers (4Life Direct / Red Sands Life)

Daniel Arányi, László Zlatarov • July 2019

In case Vj/68/2016 (31 July 2019), the GVH accepted the commitments of 4Life Direct Kft., Red Sands Life Assurance Company (Europe) Limited and Red Sands Insurance Company (Europe) Limited to pay approximately HUF 100 million (EUR 3 million) to beneficiaries of insurance products compensating (...)

31 Jul 2019 B

The Hungarian Competition Authority accepts commitments from an airline company to compensate the customers who were inadequately informed (WizzAir)

Daniel Arányi, László Zlatarov • July 2019

In case Vj/17/2017 (31 July 2019), WizzAir committed to compensate airline passengers in a total amount of around HUF 250 million (EUR 760,000) affected by the Wizz Flex service since 2010. The customers were unable to benefit from the free flight modification under the Wizz Flex service (...)

28 Jun 2019 B

The Shanghai IP Court holds that fictitiously increasing the number of views of videos is an act of false propaganda (Feiyi / IQiYi)

Wang Hanlu • June 2019

From the perspective of anti-unfair competition law, Feiyi Company fictitiously increased the video visits of IQiYi’s website by technical means - the first case of inflating traffic on video websites in China. In recent years, the excessive pursuit of traffic in the Internet industry has (...)

30 May 2019 B

The Australian Federal Court fines an airline company for engaging into a misleading conduct in relation to its refund practices and makes clear that Australia’s Competition laws apply to international business (Jetstar)

Tom Macken, Thomas Jones • May 2019

In May 2019, Australia’s competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), secured two significant victories in the Federal Court against airlines, one for misleading conduct against Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd (Jetstar) in relation to its refund practices, and one (...)

8 Apr 2019 R

Notification: The European Commission fines a US energy conglomerate for providing negligently incorrect information during a merger notification (General Electric / LM Wind)

Alain Ronzano • N° 3-2019

At the Commission, the accuracy of the information provided in merger notifications is not to be trifled with. It can even be very expensive. General Electric is learning this today at its own expense. It is being fined €52 million for negligently providing incorrect information in the merger (...)

8 Apr 2019 B

The EU Commission fines a multinational conglomerate company for providing incorrect information during the assessment of its merger (General Electric)

European Commission • April 2019

Mergers: Commission fines General Electric €52 million for providing incorrect information in LM Wind takeover* The European Commission has fined General Electric €52 million for providing incorrect information during the Commission’s investigation under the EU Merger Regulation of GE’s planned (...)

8 Apr 2019 B

The EU Commission fines a company € 52 million for providing incorrect information during merger review (General Electric)

Porter Elliott • April 2019

On 8 April 2019, the European Commission (“Commission”) imposed a fine of € 52 million on GE for negligently providing incorrect information to the Commission during the merger review of its acquisition of LM Wind. On 11 January 2017, GE notified its proposed acquisition of LM Wind to the (...)

20 Feb 2019 B

The Italian Competition Authority fines two low cost airlines companies for increasing the price of their tickets in a non-transparent manner (Ryanair / Wizz Air)

Federico Marini Balestra • February 2019

On 21 February 2019, the Italian Competition Authority ("AGCM") concluded two proceedings - launched in September and October 2018 - against the low cost airlines Ryanair and Wizz Air,. The two investigations showed that, from 1 November 2018 onwards, passengers of the two companies were only (...)

30 Jan 2019 B

The Danish Competition Authority finds that a company abused its dominant position by excluding a competitor from the market for ambulance services (Falck / BIOS)

Morten Nissen, Frederik Haugsted • January 2019

On 30 January 2019, the Danish Competition Council ("DCC") established that Falck abused its dominant position (Danish Competition Act § 11 - Article 102 TFEU), by excluding the Dutch company BIOS from the Danish market for ambulance services. Falck is the largest provider of ambulance services (...)

8 Jan 2019 B

The Italian Competition Authority fines for over €109 million two companies for abusing dominance in regulated retail energy markets in order to gain customers in competitive markets (Enel / Acea)

Federico Marini Balestra • January 2019

On 8 January 2019, the Italian Competition Authority ("AGCM") fined Enel (the national former incumbent in the electricity sector) for over EUR 93 million and Acea (the Rome municipality utility company) for over EUR 16 million for abusing dominance in regulated retail energy markets to gain (...)

20 Dec 2018 B

The US District Court for the Northern District of California denies motion for summary judgment that a company’s standard essential patent licensing practices breached its FRAND obligations (ASUS / InterDigital)

Joseph Raffetto, Nicholas Rotz, Daniel Graulich, Logan M. Breed • December 2018

This article has been nominated for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. In a decision published in redacted form, Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California denied ASUSTek Computer Inc.’s and ASUS Computer (...)

17 Oct 2018 B

The Turkish Competition Authority does not fine the notifying party for providing misleading information and approves the acquisition (Jacobs Group / Kasap Family / Jacobs TR)

Gönenç Gürkaynak, Onur Özgümüş • October 2018

This case summary concerns an analysis of the Board’s Jacobs decision, in which the Board evaluated the notification submitted by Jacobs TR, regarding the transaction by and between Jacobs Group, Kasap Family and Jacobs TR, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jacobs Group, which intended to acquire (...)

16 May 2018 B

The US DoJ indicts the CEO of a seafood company on price-fixing charges (Bumble Bee Foods)

Benjamin Craven, Eric P. Enson, John M. Majoras, Julia McEvoy • May 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Bumble Bee Foods CEO Christopher Lischewski on price-fixing charges. Lischewski is the first CEO to be charged for his role in the alleged U.S. conspiracy to fix the price of packaged seafood. The Northern District of California grand jury indictment (...)

8 Mar 2018 B

The Vilnius Regional Administrative Court upholds fine for misleading advertising in the hotel sector (NT partneriai / Karolinos turas)

Gavin Murphy • March 2018

A hotel is a hotel and the Karolina Park Hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania is no exception. So the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court (Court) upheld a decision of the Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania (Council) that fined the developer Karolinos turas and real estate company NT (...)

1 Feb 2018 R

Disparagement: The Paris Court of Appeal rejects the appeal of the National confederation of dental union denouncing acts of disparagement attributed to a undertaking in the field of advice in the medical sector (Santéclair)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2018

By judgment of 1 February 2018The Paris Court of Appeal declared inadmissible the plea in law and the request for the appointment of an expert and dismissed for the rest the appeal against Decision No. 16-D-23 of October 24, 2016. relating to practices implemented in the field of prosthetic or (...)

31 Jan 2018 B

The Italian Supreme Court upholds the class action ruling of the Court of Appeal of Milan on misleading advertising (Voden)

Akyurek Ozan, Christian B. Fulda, Lamberto Schiona • January 2018

The Situation: On January 31, 2018, the Italian Supreme Court ruled on the first Italian product-related class action promoted by a consumers’ association. The Result: The Court upheld the consumer’s class action claim regarding the unlawful advertising of a medical device. Looking Ahead: The (...)

23 Jan 2018 R

Off-label therapeutic use: The European Court of Justice rules that constitutes a restriction of competition by object the cartel between two pharmaceutical laboratories selling two competitors medicines, consisting in diffusing to the European Medicines Agency, health professionals and the general public, in a context of scientific uncertainty, misleading informations on the undesirable effects of the off-label use of one of those medicine (Hoffman-La Roche)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2018

On 23 January 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in case C-179/16 (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd and others v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)). The present case, which stems from a reference for a preliminary ruling by the Italian Conseil (...)

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