Vertical restraints: The European Commission launches an impact assessment, including a public consultation, in view of the revision of the Block Exemption Regulation on Vertical Restraints

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Like the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation (see below), the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation will expire shortly (31 May 2022), together with the accompanying Guidelines on Vertical Restraints. The Commission therefore launched in October 2018 the review of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation in order to decide whether it should not be renewed, revised or renewed as it stands. Following a public consultation which took place in the first half of 2019 and in the light of the findings of an external study it commissioned as well as the sector inquiry on e-commerce, the Commission published a major working document of more than 230 pages on 8