Specialisation agreements: The European Commission approves the content of its revised draft block exemption regulation on specialization agreements

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. As Regulation 1218/2010 on specialization agreements expires on December 31, 2022, the European Commission approved on March 1, 2010 the content of its draft revised block exemption regulation on specialization agreements which will succeed it as of January 1, 2023. The content of the recently approved draft on specialization agreements shares almost all of the provisions already contained in the exemption regulation 1218/2010. However, certain distinctions must be noted here. As a reminder, the block exemption regulation on specialization agreements makes Article 101(1) TFEU inapplicable to such agreements as defined by the regulation in question unless