Charlotte Nassogne is senior counsel in Van Bael & Bellis’ Brussels office. Charlotte’s practice focuses on competition law. She advises on a wide variety of competition law matters, including dominant market positions, compliance programmes, cartel investigations, merger control and other commercial arrangements (such as distribution, technology licensing, R&D, joint ventures and cooperation agreements). Her practice covers a broad range of sectors, including basic industries, automotive, retail and food, building materials, chemicals and financial services, among others. Charlotte regularly represents international clients before the European Commission and national competition authorities in Belgium and France. She also played a key role in the development of a competition compliance training DVD entitled “Complying with EU competition law”, a practical training tool which is used as part of a complete compliance programme and which won first prize in the “Training and Education” category at the 2005 International Creusot Festival. Charlotte Nassogne speaks English and French.
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On 20 April 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) handed down a preliminary ruling concerning the effect of national competition authorities’ (“NCAs”) final infringement decisions on follow-on actions for damages and for declarations of nullity, where the actions in question fall (...)
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On 6 March 2023, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued an order in Joined Cases C-198/22 and C-199/22 (QJ and IP v Deutsche Bank AG), upholding a national rule under which the limitation period for professionals and consumers alike to bring a private damages action starts to run as of the (...)
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On 16 February 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) handed down a preliminary ruling in Case C-312/21 (Tráficos Manuel Ferrer) which clarified the circumstances under which the exercise of the right to full compensation is rendered ‘practically impossible or excessively (...)
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On 10 November 2022, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) clarified the meaning of ‘relevant evidence’ within the meaning of Directive 2014/104/EU of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions (“Damages (...)
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In a press release issued on 6 January 2012, the Belgian Competition Council announced the adoption on 19 December 2011 of new Guidelines regarding the calculation of fines for EU and Belgian competition law infringements (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines describe the methodology that the (...)
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In a judgment of 3 May 2011, the Brussels Court of Appeal has requested the Supreme Court (Hof van Cassatie/Cour de Cassation) to give a preliminary ruling on questions relating to the use of languages in proceedings before the College of Competition Prosecutors. The case concerns a (...)
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On 8 February 2011, the College of Competition Prosecutors submitted a reasoned report to the Competition Council finding that the fee system imposed by the National Chamber of Bailiffs for out-of-court (amicable) recovery of debts amounts to illegal price-fixing. In its report, the (...)
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