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19 Feb 2019

The EU Commission carries out unannounced inspections in the farmed Atlantic salmon sector

Antitrust: Commission confirms unannounced inspections in the farmed Atlantic salmon sector* The European Commission can confirm that on 19 February 2019 its officials carried out unannounced inspections in several Member States at the premises of several companies in the sector of farmed (...)

13 Feb 2019

The French Competition Authority carries out unannounced inspections in the sector of engineering maintenance decommissioning and waste treatment services for nuclear installations

French Competition Authority • Preview

Dawn raids* The General Rapporteur of the Autorité de la concurrence indicates that unannounced inspections have been carried out in the sector of engineering, maintenance, decommissioning and waste treatment services for nuclear installations Following authorisation from the liberty and (...)

7 Feb 2019

The German Competition Authority prohibits a social network company in dominant position from combining its user data from different sources (Facebook)

German Competition Authority • February 2019

Bundeskartellamt / Digital Economy Bundeskartellamt prohibits Facebook from combining user data from different sources* Bonn, 7 February 2019: The Bundeskartellamt has imposed on Facebook far-reaching restrictions in the processing of user data. According to Facebook’s terms and conditions (...)

7 Feb 2019

The German Competition Authority orders a social network company to stop collecting and matching data of its users without explicit consent as it constitutes an abuse of dominance (Facebook)

Silke Heinz • Preview

Bundeskartellamt hits „don’t like“-button on Facebook* On February 7, 2019, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) issued its long-awaited decision in the Facebook case, see press release and background paper in English here. It qualifies Facebook’s current practice of collecting and matching data (...)

7 Feb 2019

The German competition authority found merging of user data from multiple sources to be both anti-competitive and in breach of the GDPR (Facebook)

Caroline Henzell • Preview

In one of the first decisions to consider data protection and competition issues side by side, the German competition regulator (the Bundeskartellamt) last week found that Facebook had both abused its market power in Germany and breached EU data protection laws in the way in which it collects (...)

31 Jan 2019

Environment and Competition policy: trends in European and national cases

Annalies Outhuijse • Environment and competition policy

This special issue contains discussions of cases in European and national practice concerning the interface between competition and environmental policy. Although the common denominator between the cases is a relationship with these two policy areas, a distinction can be drawn between two broad (...)

22 Jan 2019

The EU Commission fines a credit card company for obstructing merchants’ access to cross-border card payment services (Mastercard II)

European Commission • February 2019

Antitrust: Commission fines Mastercard €570 million for obstructing merchants’ access to cross-border card payment services* The European Commission has fined the card scheme Mastercard €570 566 000 for limiting the possibility for merchants to benefit from better conditions offered by banks (...)

21 Jan 2019

The German Competition Authority in cooperation with the Austrian Competition Authority opens a formal proceeding against a search engine company suspected to have concluded anticompetitive agreements (Google)

German Competition Authority • February 2019

Proceeding against whitelisting contract between Google and Eyeo terminated after amendments to the contract* In cooperation with the Austrian competition authority (BWB) the Bundeskartellamt conducted an administrative proceeding against the companies Google Inc., Mountain View/USA and Eyeo (...)

18 Jan 2019

The French Competition Authority carries out unannounced inspections in the luxury watch retail sector

French Competition Authority • February 2019

Dawn raids* The General Rapporteur of the Autorité de la concurrence indicates that unannounced inspections have been carried out in the luxury watch retail sector Following authorisation from the liberty and custody judge, the investigation services of the Autorité de la concurrence have (...)

17 Jan 2019

Privacy and antitrust: An overview of EU and national case law

Giuseppe Colangelo • Privacy and antitrust

The emergence of multi-sided media platforms occurred in parallel with the success of business models that revolve around the collection and use of personal data, generating revenue from user-data-based profiling and advertising. Given that only some of the firms elaborating those profiles hold (...)

17 Jan 2019

The EU Commission hosts a conference to address the challenges of digitization for competition policy

Enrique Fayos, Pedro Callol • February 2019

“Shaping Competition Policy in the era of digitization”: The European Commission hosts a conference with academic and business leaders to address the challenges of digitization for competition policy. On 17 January 2019, the European Commission hosted an experts conference to address the (...)

11 Jan 2019

The French Competition Authority announces its priorities for 2019

French Competition Authority • February 2019

The Autorité de la concurrence announces its priorities for 2019* The Autorité has defined several priority actions for 2019. Further, it has committed to an extensive strategic review exercise of its legal framework and methods of operation. SECTORS AND LINES OF ACTION Digital sector The (...)

9 janv. 2019

Les accords de report d’entrée Introduction

Walid Chaiehloudj

W. Chaiehloudj – Les accords de report d’entrée 1 INTRODUCTION Le champ magnétique de la concurrence. Dans un article publié en 1995, le professeur Pirovano faisait remarquer que la concurrence produit un champ magnétique qui, écrivait-il, « attire à lui des domaines qui naguère lui échappaient : les (...)

9 janv. 2019

Les accords de report d’entrée Titre II. La diversité des accords de report d’entrée
Chapitre 1. Les accords transigeant un litige de brevet, l’instrument principal du report de l’entrée

Walid Chaiehloudj

W. Chaiehloudj – Les accords de report d’entrée 127 TITRE II LA DIVERSITÉ DES ACCORDS DE REPORT D’ENTRÉE La polymorphie des accords de report d’entrée. L’étude de l’émergence des accords de report d’entrée nous a conduit précédemment à évoquer les circonstances particulières de leur apparition. Il a pu alors (...)

9 janv. 2019

Les accords de report d’entrée Titre II. L’admission souhaitable des accords de report d’entrée, de lege ferenda
Chapitre 1. La justification de l’admission

Walid Chaiehloudj

W. Chaiehloudj – Les accords de report d’entrée 381 TITRE II L’ADMISSION SOUHAITABLE DES ACCORDS DE REPORT D’ENTRÉE, DE LEGE FERENDA La justification de l’admission des accords de report d’entrée conduit à proposer l’adoption de nouveaux instruments pour mieux les contrôler. Le précédent titre avait pour (...)

1 Jan 2019

Frédéric Jenny Liber Amicorum Should Competition Authorities Perform a Consumer Protection Role?

Allan Fels

243 Should Competition Authorities Perform a Consumer Protection Role? AllAn FelS Ao * University of Melbourne, Monash University and Oxford University Abstract This paper discusses whether competition authorities should perform a consumer protection role. The paper proceeds by examining the (...)

18 Dec 2018

The UK Competition Authority issues a market study in which it proposes reforms to improve competition in the audit sector

UK Competition Authority • February 2019

CMA proposes reforms to improve competition in audit sector* Improvements to the independence and the quality of audits are the focus of the CMA’s market study update. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published an update paper outlining serious competition concerns and proposing (...)

29 Nov 2018

The Italian Competition Authority fines a social network 10 Million euros for unfair commercial practices using its subscribers data for commercial purposes (Facebook)

Italian Competition Authority • November 2018

Facebook fined 10 million Euros by the ICA for unfair commercial practices for using its subscribers’ data for commercial purposes On 29 November 2018 the Italian Competition Authority (ICA), closed the investigation opened last April for alleged violations of the Consumer Code by Facebook (...)

26 Nov 2018

The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments to determine whether iPhone App Store customers are Apple direct purchasers in order to pursue the Big Tech monopoly claims (Apple / Pepper)

Jody Coultas • November 2018

Will High Court allow consumers to pursue Apple Monopoly claims?* The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on November 26 in a suit alleging that the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that iPhone App Store customers were direct purchasers of those apps and had standing to sue Apple for the (...)

15 Nov 2018

The US DoJ reaches a settlement with a healthcare system related to provisions in a contract between the health system and commercial insurers (Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority)

Ashley Fischer, Ashley L. McMahon , Jeffrey Brennan, Michelle S. Lowery, Stephen Wu • November 2018

THE LATEST: DOJ Announces Settlement with Carolinas Health System (Atrium Health) After Two Years of Litigation* The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that it and the State of North Carolina have reached a settlement with Carolinas Healthcare System / Atrium Health relating to (...)

1 Nov 2018

Antitrust regimes in the Pacific region

Antonino Troianiello, Aurélie Zoude-Le-Berre, Deborah Healey, Jacques Merot, Robin Simpson, Rod Sims, Stéphane Retterer, Tehono Marchal • N° 4-2018 • pp. 19-54

This On-Topic considers the competition regimes of the Pacific jurisdictions of Australia, French Polynesia and New Caledonia in the context of their respective market conditions. It seeks to determine whether there is uniformity in approach in the region, but finds that each jurisdiction has (...)

1 Nov 2018

Connecting competition law standards to the Internet of things

Aymeric de Moncuit • N° 4-2018 • pp. 85-94

The advent of the Internet of Things will entail a new Internet revolution and bring about profound changes that will rival the first wave of Internet innovation. This paper explores the competition law implications raised by this upcoming revolution. Starting by discussing the merits of open (...)

18 Oct 2018

The Australian Standing Committee on Economics publishes a report on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission activities

Peeta Hutson • October 2018

THE ACCC’S ANNUAL REPORT: THE YEAR IN REVIEW* On 15 October 2018, the Standing Committee on Economics (Standing Committee) published a report on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which details the ACCC’s performance and operations based on the ACCC’s 2017 Annual Report. (...)

3 Oct 2018

The Portuguese Competition Authority issues its final version of the Issues Paper “Technological Innovation and Competition in the Financial Sector in Portugal”

Portuguese Competition Authority • October 2018

The AdC has published the final version of the Issues Paper “Technological Innovation and Competition in the Financial Sector in Portugal”, in which warns of the risks in PSD2’s implementation* The AdC has approved the final version of the Issues Paper “Technological Innovation and Competition in (...)

1^er oct. 2018

Petit manuel (irrévérencieux) d’économie Introduction. Et si l’on faisait un peu moins de politique et… un peu plus d’économie ?

Emmanuel Combe

13 Introduction Et si l’on faisait un peu moins de politique et… un peu plus d’économie ? « It’s the economy stupid » : cette célèbre phrase de James Carville, conseiller de Bill Clinton qui remporta l’élection présidentielle de en misant tout sur les questions économiques, vient nous rappeler que si (...)

1 Sep 2018

Giovanni PITRUZZELLA, Italian Competition Authority: The Great Transformation - challenges for competition authorities

Enrico Adriano Raffaelli, Ginevra Bruzzone, Giovanni Pitruzzella • N° 3-2018 • pp. 12-17

Interview conducted by Ginevra Bruzzone, Deputy Director General, Assonime and Enrico Adriano Raffaelli, Partner, Rucellai & Raffaelli. The mandate of Giovanni Pitruzzella as the President of the Italian Competition Authority coincided with a Great Transformation involving the economy, (...)

1^er sept. 2018

La protection des droits fondamentaux en matière de concurrence dans le droit de l’Union européenne : Quelques éléments de réflexion, Krystyna KOWALIK-BANCZYK

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 3-2018 • p. 218

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

1^er sept. 2018

Le LAMY Droit économique

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 3-2018 • p. 218

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

1^er sept. 2018

Populisme et concurrence

Frédéric Jenny, Jérôme Philippe • N° 3-2018

A l’heure où les autorités de concurrence font face à des remises en cause de nature populiste, il peut être remarqué qu’elles-mêmes ont en partie adopté une approche populiste en abandonnant le test du ’Bien-être’, qui constituait le fondement de leur légitimité, au profit du test du seul surplus du (...)

1 Sep 2018

The intricate tale of demand and supply of personal data

Paul Belleflamme, Wouter Vergote • N° 3-2018 • pp. 45-52

In this article, we develop some of the economics of the intricate relationship between the demand and the supply of personalized data. We first focus on one heavily debated use of personal data: differential pricing (price discrimination). This allows us to highlight the role played by privacy (...)

27 Aug 2018

The French Competition Authority closes its investigation in the tobacco sector

French Competition Authority • August 2018

Tobacco sector* The Autorité de la concurrence closes the investigation it had opened in the tobacco sector On 23 January, following authorization from the liberty and custody judge, the Investigation Services of the Autorité de la concurrence raided the premises of companies suspected of (...)

23 Aug 2018

The Australian Parliament aligns the maximum penalties under the Australian Consumer Law with the maximum penalties for breaches of the competition provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act

Michael Evans, Paula Mucha • August 2018

NEW FINANCIAL YEAR, NEW PENALTIES – GREEN LIGHT FOR INCREASED ACL PENALTIES* On 23 August 2018, the Australian Parliament passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 3) Bill 2018 (Cth) (Bill). The Bill aligns the maximum penalties under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) with the (...)

21 Aug 2018

The Portuguese Competition Authority sends a statement of objections to five insurance companies and their directors and managers for participating in a cartel (Fidelidade / Multicare / Seguros de Saúde / Seguradoras Unidas / Zurich Insurance)

Portuguese Competition Authority • August 2018

AdC issues Statement of Objections to 5 insurance companies and 14 directors and managers for participating in a cartel * The Portuguese Competition Authority (Autoridade da Concorrência - AdC) issued a Statement of Objections to the insurance companies Fidelidade – Companhia de Seguros, (...)

31 Jul 2018

The French Competition Authority makes new recommendations to encourage the establishment of new notary offices

French Competition Authority • July 2018

Freedom of establishment for notaries: proposed map for 2018-2020* The process of gradually opening up the notarial profession is producing encouraging results and must continue. Pursuant to the “Macron Law”, the Autorité is making new recommendations to encourage the gradual establishment of (...)

24 Jul 2018

The EU Commission fines four consumer electronics manufacturers for fixing online resale prices (Asus / Denon & Marantz / Philips / Pioneer)

European Commission • July 2018

Antitrust: Commission fines four consumer electronics manufacturers for fixing online resale prices* The European Commission today fined, in four separate decisions, consumer electronics manufacturers Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer for imposing fixed or minimum resale prices on (...)

24 Jul 2018

The French Competition Authority renders legally binding a set of remedies of a media company leaving its subscribers free to choose their TV decoder to watch its programmes (Canal Plus)

French Competition Authority • July 2018

Satellite Pay TV* The Autorité de la concurrence makes the commitments of Groupe Canal Plus binding, leaving its subscribers free to choose their TV decoder to watch its programmes. The complaint A satellite decoder manufacturer lodged a complaint with the Autorité de la concurrence relating (...)

24 Jul 2018

The EU Commission fines consumer electronics manufacturers €111 Million for online pricing restrictions (Asus / Denon / Marantz / Philips / Pioneer)

Becket McGrath • July 2018

European Commission Fines Consumer Electronics Manufacturers €111 Million for Online Pricing Restrictions* On 24 July 2018, the European Commission announced that it had fined four consumer electronics manufacturers – Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer – a total of €111 million (...)

24 Jul 2018

The EU Commission fines consumer electronics manufacturers for imposing fixed or minimum resale prices on their online retailers (Asus / Denon / Marantz / Philips / Pioneer)

Clemens York von Wartenburg, Craig G. Falls, Michael Okkonen • July 2018

Recent EU Fines for Resale Price Maintenance Are Symptoms of Broader Challenges Faced by Today’s Consumer-Goods Manufacturers The European Commission (the “Commission”) issued four separate decisions on 24 July 2018, fining consumer electronics manufacturers Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and (...)

18 Jul 2018

The Russian Competition Authority exposes the first cartel in Dagestan in the medicine sector (Medpharmasnab / RegionPharma / Dagmedtechnika / Globalmedtech)

Russian Competition Authority • July 2018

FAS exposed the first cartel in Dagestan* A group of FAS specialists arrived to Dagestan on invitation of Acting Head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev To pursue the National Competition Development Plan approved by No. 618 Order of the President of Russia on 21.12.2017, FAS jointly with (...)

5 Jul 2018

The Portuguese Competition Auhtority renders legally binding a set of remedies that expand the scope of postal network access offer of a postal operator to competing operators (CTT)

Portuguese Competition Authority • July 2018

AdC’s intervention expands the scope of CTT postal network access offer to competing operators and broadens consumer choice* The Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC) adopted a decision which renders legally binding a set of commitments that expand the scope of CTT’s Postal Network Access Offer (...)

29 juin 2018

Fixation des prix : Le Conseil d’État ne renvoie pas une question prioritaire de constitutionnalité relative à la fixation des prix des produits du tabac (Seita)

Francesco Martucci • N° 4-2018 • p. 200

Par un arrêt en date du 29 juin 2018 mentionné aux tables du recueil Lebon, le Conseil d’État a décidé de ne pas renvoyer au Conseil constitutionnel une question prioritaire de constitutionnalité concernant les articles 575 et 575 A du Code général des impôts à propos de la fixation du droit de la (...)

28 Jun 2018

Internet and Antitrust: An overview of EU and national case law

Gabriele Accardo, Giulia Carnazza, Zachariah Davies • Internet & Antitrust

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 (...)

28 Jun 2018

The Dutch Competition Authority launches a sector inquiry into anti-rheumatic drugs

Dutch Competition Authority • June 2018

ACM has launched a sector inquiry into anti-rheumatic drugs* The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has launched a sector inquiry into TNF inhibitors, a type of drug mainly used to treat rheumatism. TNF inhibitors are, in the Netherlands and globally, a type of prescription (...)

28 Jun 2018

The UK Competition and Markets Authority takes enforcement action against several hotel booking sites over potential breaches of consumer protection law

Robert Bell, Sarah Ward • June 2018

UK COMPETITION REGULATOR TAKES ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST HOTEL BOOKING WEBSITES* The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) announced on 28th June 2018 that it is taking enforcement action against several hotel booking sites over potential breaches of consumer protection law. The CMA has (...)

26 Jun 2018

The French Competition Authority is asked for an opinion in the audiovisual sector by the Commission of Cultural Affairs and Education

French Competition Authority • June 2018

Audiovisual sector* The Autorité de la concurrence has been asked for an opinion in the audiovisual sector by the Commission of Cultural Affairs and Education (Commission des Affaires culturelles et de l’Education) of the National Assembly The Commission of Cultural Affairs and Education of the (...)

25 Jun 2018

The French Competition Authority is asked for an opinion by the Government regarding the import and distribution of consumer goods in the French overseas departments

French Competition Authority • June 2018

French overseas territories* The Autorité de la concurrence has been asked for an opinion by the Government regarding the import and distribution of consumer goods in the French overseas departments The Ministry of Finance and Economy submitted a request, on behalf of the Government, to the (...)

21 Jun 2018

Dinner in honor of Marek Niechciał (President of the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection - UOKiK)

Aleksandra Boutin, Katarzyna Czapracka, Marek Niechcial

Dinner organised by Concurrences Review with keynote speaker Marek Niechciał (UOKiK), in partnership with White & Case and Compass Lexecon.

21 Jun 2018

The French Competition Authority fines a human resource consulting firm for non-compliance with certain remedies addressing practices implemented in the temporary employment sector (Randstad)

French Competition Authority • June 2018

Temporary employment sector* The Autorité de la concurrence fines Randstad 4.5 million euros for non-compliance with certain commitments undertaken in 2009 The Autorité de la concurrence today issues a decision imposing a joint fine on companies Groupe Randstad France SAS, Randstad SAS, (...)

19 Jun 2018

The French and German Competition Authorities launch a joint project on algorithms and their implications on competition

German Competition Authority • June 2018

The French Autorité de la concurrence and the German Bundeskartellamt launch a joint project on algorithms and their implications on competition* Coming along with digitalization, algorithms are becoming more and more important and at the same time progressively sophisticated. Prominent (...)

14 Jun 2018

The French Competition Authority acknowledges the decision of the Minister of Economy and Finance to use his power to reexamine the merger in the market for the production and sale of ready meals (Financière Cofigeo / Agripole group)

French Competition Authority • June 2018

Acquisition of William Saurin - Reaction of the Autorité after the Minister of Economy’s decision* The Autorité de la concurrence acknowledges the decision of the Minister of Economy and Finance to use its power to reexamine the operation, cleared by the Autorité today regarding the acquisition (...)

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