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13 May 2019

The Belgian Competition Authority clears a merger subject to remedies in the TV channels platforms market (De Vijver Media / Telenet)

Belgian Competition Authority • May 2019 - II

The Competition College of the BCA has approved conditionally the acquisition of sole control of De Vijver Media by Telenet* the Competition College of the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) has approved conditionally on 13 May 2019 the acquisition of sole control by Telenet Group BVBA (...)

13 May 2019

The US Supreme Court rejects attempt to block consumer claims against a big tech company under indirect-purchaser rule (Apple / Pepper)

Harrison J. McAvoy • May 2019 - II

Apple v. Pepper: Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Consumer Claims Under Indirect-Purchaser Rule* The Supreme Court on Monday issued a much-anticipated decision in the Apple v. Pepper case, where iPhone owners are accusing Apple of monopolizing the retail market for iOS applications, or (...)

13 May 2019

The US Supreme Court holds that the claims of consumers purchasing apps from a big tech app store may proceed as they are direct purchasers of the big tech company (Apple / Pepper)

Thomas Barnett • May 2019 - II

Appellate and Supreme Court On May 13, 2019, the Supreme Court (“the Court”) announced its 5-4 decision in Apple, Inc. v. Pepper, permitting iPhone users to proceed with an antitrust suit against Apple alleging that it monopolized the retail market for iPhone apps. The Court emphasized that it (...)

1 May 2019

Disrupting the traditional value chain: How online platforms challenge competition rules on vertical restraints and RPM

Charlotte Breuvart, Yannis Schlüter • N° 2-2019

According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, almost half of SMEs in the EU use online marketplaces to sell their products or services. At the same time, many merchants report to have experienced resale price restrictions when selling online. Since online RPM is a widespread concern in online (...)

1 May 2019

Liability for outsourced algorithmic collusion: A practical approximation

Lorenz Marx, Christian Ritz, Jonas Weller • N° 2-2019

Pricing algorithms have been one of the hottest topics in the European competition law community in recent years. While the discussion is mostly focusing on long term scenarios, this article aims to meet a more modest, yet in our view highly practically relevant, objective: The assessment of (...)

24 Apr 2019

The US FTC files a monopoly claims against a provider of e-prescribing solutions (Surescripts)

Jeffrey May • April 2019

FTC Files First Monopoly Case in Two Years Against Health Information Technology Company Surescripts* After facing a significant loss in its last monopolization action filed just over two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission last week filed a new monopolization case against a provider of (...)

11 Apr 2019

The Dutch Competition Authority launches investigations into a big tech company for abusing its dominant position giving its applications preferential treatment (Apple App Store)

Mariska van de Sanden, Pauline Kuipers • April 2019

Dutch Antitrust Authority investigates Apple: does this support Spotify’s complaint?* After Google has been fined several times for breach of (EU) competition rules the last couple of years, it might now be Apple’s turn. Last month (March 2019), Spotify filed a complaint against Apple with the (...)

10 Apr 2019

The Italian Competition Authority opens an antitrust investigation against a major e-commerce company for alleged abuse of dominance (Amazon)

Michele Giannino • April 2019

The Italian Competition Authority (ICA) has opened an Article 102 TFEU investigation against several undertakings belonging to the Amazon group in the FBA case. The targets of the ICA investigation are Amazon Services Europe (ASE), Amazon Europe Core (AEC), Amazon EU (AEU), Amazon Italia (...)

5 Apr 2019

The EU Commission sends statement of objections concerning alleged geo-blocking of PC video games (Valve / Focus Home / Koch Media / ZeniMax / Bandai Namco / Capcom)

Andrzej Kmiecik • April 2019

On 5 April 2019, the European Commission announced via a press release that it had sent Statements of Objections to Valve – the owner of the ‘Steam’ video game distribution platform – and five video game publishers (Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax) concerning their alleged (...)

4 avr. 2019

Publicité en ligne : La Cour d’appel de Paris confirme pour l’essentiel la décision de mesure conservatoire mettant en demeure l’opérateur dominant du marché de la publicité en ligne de clarifier la procédure de suspension des comptes de publicité pour « contenus trompeurs ou interdits » (Google)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2019

Le 4 avril 2019, la Chambre 5-7 de la Cour d’appel de Paris a rendu un arrêt dans l’affaire des mesures conservatoires prononcées à l’encontre de Google l’enjoignant de clarifier la procédure de suspension des comptes Google Ads pour « contenus trompeurs ou interdits ». À l’exception de la 3e mesure (...)

4 avr. 2019

Politique de concurrence : La Commission européenne publie le rapport final sur la politique de concurrence à l’ère du digital (Secteur du numérique)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2019

Afin de nourrir la réflexion sur la façon de « Façonner la politique de la concurrence à l’ère du digital », la Commission a été à l’origine de plusieurs initiatives ces derniers mois. Outre l’organisation d’une conférence le 17 janvier 2019 à Bruxelles avec un keynote speech de Jean Tirole, elle-même nourrie (...)

4 Apr 2019

The EU Commission publishes a report on competition policy in the digital era

Peter Broadhurst, Satyen Dhana, Nathdwarawala Shachi • April 2019

On 04 April 2019, the European Commission (EC) published a report commissioned by the EU’s Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager. The report looks at how competition policy should continue to evolve in the digital age and is written jointly by an economist, a lawyer and an engineer. The (...)

4 Apr 2019

The EU Commission publishes final report on competition policy for the digital era

Martin Favart • April 2019

On 4 April 2019, the European Commission published a special report commissioned by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on how competition policy should evolve to continue promoting pro-consumer innovation in the digital age (“Competition Policy for the Digital Era”). The report is grounded in three (...)

4 Apr 2019

The EU Commission publishes a report on competition policy for the digital area

Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, Raphael Fleischer, Matthew Giles • April 2019

On 4 April 2019, the European Commission published the much anticipated Report Competition Policy for the digital era (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). Authored by a panel of special advisers (all academics) appointed by Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, the Report explores (...)

3 avr. 2019

L’intelligence artificielle crée-t-elle des cartels illégaux ?

Ariel Ezrachi, Patrick Hubert

Dîner-débat organisé par la Revue Concurrences en partenariat avec le cabinet Orrick représenté par Me Patrick Hubert, en présence d’Ariel Ezrachi (Université d’Oxford).

25 Mar 2019

The EU Commission fines a company for restricting cross-border and online sales of branded merchandise by its european licensees (Nike)

Marieke Van Nieuwenborgh, Sean-Paul Brankin • May 2019 - II

E-Commerce in Europe: A Look into Nike’s Huge Antitrust Fines* On March 25, the European Commission (EC) fined Nike €12.5 million for restricting cross-border and online sales of branded merchandise by its European licensees. In December last year, the EC fined Guess €40 million for imposing (...)

20 Mar 2019

The EU Commission imposes a fine of 1.49 Billions euros on a search engine company for abusing its dominant position by imposing restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites (Google Adsense)

European Commission • March 2019

Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising* The European Commission has fined Google €1.49 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party (...)

18 mars 2019

Réforme : L’Autorité de la concurrence émet un avis favorable sur le projet de loi portant modernisation de la distribution de la presse, assorti toutefois de nombreuses réserves (Modernisation de la distribution de la presse)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2019

Saisie par le ministre de l’économie à propos du projet de loi portant modernisation de la distribution de la presse, l’Autorité de la concurrence a rendu public le 11 avril 2019 un avis n° 19-A-06 daté du 18 mars 2019, au terme duquel elle émet un avis favorable, assorti toutefois de nombreuses (...)

28 Feb 2019

Mergers and online platforms: An overview of EU and national case law

Ioannis Kokkoris, Lydia Gavriilidou • Mergers and Acquisitions in online platforms

The European Commission has dealt with various concentrations in the field of online platforms in recent years and has thus developed a policy, which is reflected in its decisions as this article will show. One of the main issues in concentrations in online platforms remains unsolved; it is (...)

26 Feb 2019

The US FTC announces the launch of a new Technology Task Force to investigate anticompetitive conduct, review past transactions and contribute to pending merger reviews

Noah Feldman Greene, Gregory E. Heltzer • February 2019

THE LATEST: FTC’s New “Technology Task Force” Has Broad Mandate Including Review of Consummated Transactions* The US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Competition announced the launch of a new Technology Task Force that will investigate anticompetitive conduct, review past transactions, (...)

21 Feb 2019

The French Competition Authority issues its opinion on audiovisual sector in which it takes into account the emergence of online video platforms

French Competition Authority • February 2019

Audiovisual sector* In the context of the reform of the audiovisual sector, the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education of the French National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) referred this matter to the Autorité de la concurrence, which today delivers its opinion. In the face of the digital (...)

21 févr. 2019

Abus d’éviction : L’Autorité de la concurrence rejette faute d’éléments probants une saisine d’une entreprise du secteur du logiciel considérant avoir été abusivement écartée d’une plateforme de réservation de billets d’avion en ligne développée par un éditeur tiers (Optionizr / Amadeus)

Frédéric Marty • N° 2-2019 • pp. 79-81

Bien qu’il s’agisse d’une décision par laquelle l’Autorité rejette une saisine et une demande de mesures conservatoires faute d’éléments probants, l’affaire en question n’en est pas moins intéressante en matière d’économie industrielle, notamment en ce qu’elle éclaire les enjeux concurrentiels du (...)

14 Feb 2019

Dinner in honor of Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt

Andreas Mundt, Thilo Klein, Tilman Kuhn

Dinner organised by Concurrences Review with keynote speaker Andreas Mundt (President, Bundeskartellamt) in partnership with White & Case and Compass Lexecon.

14 Feb 2019

The Finnish Competition Authority issues a report on competition in data economy

Finnish Competition Authority • February 2019

FCCA: Competition and consumer protection are fundamental to data economy* With the market for digital products and services is growing, the functionality of competition and consumer protection are important considerations. A report by the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (FCCA), (...)

6 Feb 2019

The Mexican Competition Authority clears a merger in the entertainment industry subject to structural remedies (Disney / Fox)

Mexican Competition Authority • February 2019

Clarification on Disney/Fox transaction* Mexico City, February 6, 2019.- In August 2018, the Walt Disney Company (Disney) and Twenty-First Century Fox (Fox) notified, both the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE or Commission) and the Federal Institute for Telecommunications (...)

6 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 (...)

6 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 • February 2019

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 (...)

6 Feb 2019

The German Competition Authority holds that matching the data collected by a social network company constitutes an antitrust violation (Facebook)

Geoffrey Manne • February 2019

Doing double damage: The German competition authority’s Facebook decision manages to undermine both antitrust and data protection law* The German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office or FCO) this week reached a decision in its nearly 3-year-old Facebook investigation. The decision appears to (...)

6 Feb 2019

The German Competition Authority finds that merging of user data from multiple sources to be both anti-competitive and in breach of the GDPR (Facebook)

Caroline Henzell • February 2019

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 (...)

6 Feb 2019

The German Competition Authority finds that the data gathering practices of a social network are an abuse of its dominant position so orders amendments in the data processing policy (Facebook)

Tim Kasten • February 2019

On 6 February 2019, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) concluded administrative proceedings concerning the data gathering practices of Facebook Inc., Facebook Ireland and Facebook Germany (together “Facebook”). The FCO found that Facebook abused its dominant position by making the private use (...)

4 Feb 2019

The German Competition Authority publishes a paper summarizing its sector inquiry into online price comparison websites

Martin Favart • February 2019

On 4 February 2019, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) published a fifth paper in its series “Competition and Consumer Protection in the Digital Economy”. The paper summarizes the sector inquiry into online comparison websites in the travel, energy, insurance, telecommunications and financial (...)

1^er févr. 2019

The Roles of Innovation in Competition Law Analysis, Paul NIHOUL, Pieter VAN CLEYNENBREUGEL (dir.)

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 1-2019 • p. 246

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 (...)

31 Jan 2019

The French Competition Authority orders a search engine company to review and clarify the rules of its online advertising service (Google)

Tim Kasten • January 2019

On 31 January 2019, the French Competition Authority (the “FCA”) ordered Google to review the rules of its Google Ads service. The FCA’s Order follows a complaint by Amadeus, an operator of online enquiry services – such as “a directory that provides call or text numbers for business/ residential (...)

18 Jan 2019

The Romanian Competition Authority fines a company operating in the retail market of IT products, home appliances and marketing via e-commerce platforms for gun jumping (Corsar Online)

Romanian Competition Authority • January 2019

The Competition Council sanctioned Corsar Online Srl with fines of 1.6 million lei * The Competition Council sanctioned the company Corsar Online SRL with fines of approximately 1.6 million lei for the implementation of a merger before being authorized by the Competition Authority. In the (...)

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 • January 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 (...)

15 Jan 2019

The Indian Competition Authority dismisses allegations of resale price maintenance against a manufacturer and seller of kitchen appliances due to lack of witnesses and manufacturer’s distribution rights (Snapdeal / Jasper Infotech / Kaff Appliances)

Man Mohan Sharma • January 2019

CCI finds no evidence of resale price maintenance on sale of KAFF appliances on Snapdeal* CCI, by way of order dated 15.01.2019 under Section 26(6) the Act, has dismissed allegations of Resale Price Maintenance (“RPM”) against Kaff Appliances (India) Pvt. Ltd. ( “KAFF/ OP”).The information was (...)

13 déc. 2018

Service universel : La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne précise qu’une entreprise qui se limite à offrir, au moyen d’un site internet, un accès à des contenus fournis sur internet ne fournit pas un réseau de communications électroniques (France Télévisions)

Francesco Martucci • N° 1-2019 • pp. 185-186

À l’occasion d’une question introduite par le Conseil d’État, la Cour de justice a interprété la directive 2002/22/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil, du 7 mars 2002, concernant le service universel et les droits des utilisateurs au regard des réseaux et services de communications électroniques qui (...)

12 Dec 2018

The Paris Court of appeal specifies a manufacturer’s right to deny access to its selective distribution network to an applicant distributor in the electronic product market in compliance with competition law and civil law (Sony Europe / Concurrence)

Alexandre Glatz, Charles Meteaut • December 2018

This case concerned a consumer electronics manufacturer and a distributor between whom the relationship was particularly conflicting. A large number of commercial disputes were brought before the courts by the distributor to obtain the right to distribute the manufacturer’s products. Even though (...)

6 déc. 2018

Neutralité du net : L’Organe des régulateurs européens des communications électroniques adopte un avis relatif à l’application du règlement européen et de ses lignes directrices sur la neutralité du net (L’évaluation de l’application du règlement et des lignes directrices sur la neutralité du net)

Alexandre Martin, Orion Berg • N° 1-2019 • pp. 186-188

Le 6 décembre 2018, l’Organe des régulateurs européens des communications électroniques (ci-après “l’ORECE”) a adopté, après consultation des parties intéressées, un avis sur l’application du règlement (UE) 2015/2120 du Parlement et du Conseil établissant des mesures relatives à l’accès à un internet ouvert (...)

29 Nov 2018

The German Competition Authority initiates an abuse of dominance proceeding against a major e-commerce company (Amazon)

German Competition Authority • November 2018

Bundeskartellamt initiates abuse proceeding against Amazon* The Bundeskartellamt has today initiated an abuse proceeding against Amazon to examine its terms of business and practices towards sellers on its German marketplace amazon.de. Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt: “Amazon (...)

23 Nov 2018

The Turkish Competition Authority holds that online sales channels exerts competitive pressure in traditional sales channels in the market of sales of books (Doğan Müzik Kitap Mağazacılık ve Pazarlama A.Ş.)

Bahadır Balkı • November 2018

Should Traditional and Online Sales Channels Constitute Separate Relevant Markets? (The TCA’s D&R Decision) On November 23, 2018, the Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) published its reasoned decision (“D&R Decision”) concerning the investigation conducted against Doğan Müzik Kitap (...)

22 Nov 2018

The Turkish Competition Authority fines a consumer electronics company for resale price maintenance in online sales (Sony)

Barış Yüksel, Burak Bugrahan Sezer, Ayberk Kurt • November 2018

Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) published its reasoned decision which concludes the investigation that was initiated on September 7, 2017 regarding the activities of Sony Eurasia Pazarlama A.Ş. (“Sony”). The main focus of the investigation was the allegations with respect to violation of Law (...)

22 Nov 2018

The Turkish Competition Authority fines a consumer electronics company for resale price maintenance on online sales channels (Sony)

Gönenç Gürkaynak, Eda Duru • May 2019 - II

This case summary includes an analysis of the Turkish Competition Board’s (the “Board”) Sony decision (22.11.2018; 18-44/703-345) in which the Board evaluated the allegations concerning resale price maintenance (“RPM”) against Sony Eurasia Pazarlama A.Ş. (“Sony”) upon complaint of a former distributor (...)

6 Nov 2018

The Indian Competition Authority dismisses abuse of dominance allegations in the market for online marketplace platforms because it finds no dominance in the relevant market (All India Online Vendors Association / Flipkart India)

Man Mohan Sharma • November 2018

CCI defines online sale platform as a separate relevant market -holds neither Flipkart nor Amazon as dominant in the market for online marketplace platforms* CCI, by way of order dated 06.11.2018 has dismissed allegations against Flipkart India Private Limited (“Flipkart India”) and Flipkart (...)

6 Nov 2018

The Indian Competition Authority dismisses cartel allegations against taxi app drivers because they were just following the algorithm pricing and not actively colluding to fix prices (Samir Agrawal / ANI Technologies / Uber India)

Man Mohan Sharma • November 2018

CCI closes allegation of cartelization between taxi aggregators* By way of an order dated November 6, 2018, the CCI dismissed allegations of concerted action against Ola and Uber Group (OPs). Allegations were levelled against the pricing algorithm adopted by the OPs which allegedly manipulated (...)

25 Oct 2018

Most Favored Customer Clause and competition law: An overview of EU and national case law

Antoine Chapsal, Benoit d’Udekem, Marc Van Audenrode • MFC clause

Over the last few decades, business practices have evolved at an astonishingly fast pace. Products have become more sophisticated, pricing and contracting strategies have become more complex, and management tools have developed. Competition enforcement authorities have had to adapt to these (...)

24 Oct 2018

Towards more competition in high-tech markets? European perspectives

Adina Claici, Alexis Walckiers, Claus Kastberg Nielsen, Colin Raftery, David A. Higbee, Elvira Aliende Rodriguez, Iulian Stanciu, Jakob Hald, Jonas Hedman, Marie Goppelsroeder, Natalia Przystasz, Noémie Papp, Norbert Maier, Tommaso Valletti, Witte Wijsmuller

This 2nd edition of the Competition in high-tech markets half-day conference was organized by Concurrences Review, in partnership with Copenhagen Economics and Shearman & Sterling.

24 Oct 2018

The Egyptian Competition Authority imposes interim measures on the two ride-hailing applications available in Egypt to preserve the competitive structure of the market (Uber / Careem)

Egyptian Competition Authority • October 2018

Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) imposes Measures on Uber and Careem to regulate competition between them and safeguard the competitive structure of the market. * Dr. Amir Nabil, Chairman of the Egyptian Competition Authority, said: “Uber and Careem are the only ride-hailing applications (...)

24 oct. 2018

Distribution en ligne : L’Autorité de la concurrence applique les jurisprudences Pierre Fabre et Coty pour apprécier la validité des critères sélectifs choisis par la tête de réseau, s’agissant de la possibilité, pour ses distributeurs, de recourir à la distribution en ligne (Distribution de matériel de motoculture)

Anne-Sophie Choné-Grimaldi • N° 1-2019 • pp. 81-82

À la suite d’une enquête réalisée par la DGCCRF, l’Autorité de la concurrence, saisie d’office, a sanctionné un fabricant de matériel de motoculture (marque Stihl), placé à la tête d’un réseau de distribution de sélective, pour avoir restreint la possibilité offerte à ses distributeurs de recourir à la vente (...)

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