Denis is a partner in the EU and competition department at Ashurst in Brussels and specialises in all aspects of EC competition law. He advises major clients in numerous sectors including healthcare, telecommunications, media, etc. He has handled numerous complex merger procedures before the EC Commission and national antitrust authorities as well as a great number of cartel cases and abuse of dominance cases both before the Commission and the courts. Denis also has a major practice before the EC courts. In addition, he is a professor in European competition law at the College of Europe in Bruges, and at the Free University of Brussels. Denis has published several books and articles on EC law. Denis is also a Member of the Scientific Board of e-Competitions.
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On 1 March 2022, the European Commission ("Commission") published its draft revised Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations and Horizontal Guidelines, which include a new chapter on the assessment of sustainability agreements under competition law. The consultation is open until 26 April 2022. (...)
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On 12 May 2021, the General Court ("GC") overruled the Commission’s decision finding that Luxembourg granted State aid to Amazon. It found that the Commission had failed to demonstrate that the intra-group transfer price at issue deviated from an arm’s length outcome and that Amazon’s tax burden (...)
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On 14 April 2021, the General Court ("GC") handed down three judgments dismissing Ryanair’s challenges against decisions by the European Commission, approving individual aid measures granted by Finland to Finnair (Case T-388/20) and by Denmark and Sweden to SAS in the context of the COVID-19 (...)
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On 4 March 2021, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") handed down its much awaited judgment in the Fùtbol Club Barcelona ("FCB") case. It set aside the judgment of the General Court. As a result, the European Commission’s decision classifying as State aid a tax scheme that was available to four (...)
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On 17 February 2021, the General Court handed down two judgments dismissing Ryanair’s challenges against decisions by the European Commission, approving French and Swedish measures to support airlines in the context of the pandemic (Cases T-238/20 and T-259/20). These judgments are the very (...)
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On 16 December 2020 the General Court of the European Union (the "Court") issued an important ruling in the International Skating Union ("ISU") case. While accepting that sports governing bodies may apply a prior authorisation system for third party events to ensure that all sports competitions (...)
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On 7 October 2020, the European Commission (the "Commission") made legally binding commitments offered by Broadcom to ensure competition in chipset markets for modems and TV set-top boxes. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - KEY TAKEAWAYS Commitments decisions are adopted in lieu of finding an (...)
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€13 billion Apple tax recovery decision quashed On 15 July 2020, the EU General Court ("GC") handed down its much awaited judgment in the Apple case. It overturned the European Commission’s ("Commission") decision ordering Ireland to recover EUR 13 billion (plus interests) in illegal State aid (...)
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On 16 October 2019, for the first time in 18 years, the European Commission ("Commission") imposed interim measures on Broadcom - a major supplier of integrated circuits for communications devices - in order to prevent "serious and irreparable damage" to competition from occurring in certain (...)
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On 7 October 2019, the European Council formally adopted a Directive aimed at improving protection of whistle-blowers in the EU (the "Directive"). The Directive will now be published in the Official Journal of the European Union ("OJEU") and will enter into force 20 days after publication. (...)
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I. Introduction A central aspect of the reform of EU competition law that has been undertaken since the turn of the new millennium has been to encourage private enforcement of EU competition rules. This initiative, as is well-known, is essentially inspired by the Commission’s perception that in (...)
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In the last few years, competition law has undergone unprecedented reform. Not only has substantive law been fundamentally amended so as to introduce a more economic approach, but also the increased “decentralised enforcement” of the law, as advocated by Council Regulation (EC) n° 1/2003, of 16 (...)
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“Ingérences évidentes” dans le droit fondamental à l’inviolabilité du domicile, les inspections de la Commission ne sont admissibles que si toutes les garanties sont mises en place pour éviter des interventions arbitraires. En particulier, la Commission doit apporter la preuve d’“indices suffisamment (...)
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Le dossier se propose d’apprécier l’impact de la loi Macron sur le droit de la concurrence. Plus précisément, la question est posée, à travers cinq études, de déterminer dans quelle mesure le législateur témoigne d’une volonté de faire évoluer le rôle de l’Autorité de la concurrence. Deux articles analysent (...)
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La 5ème conférence annuelle du Global Competition Law Centre, organisée à Bruxelles les 11 et 12 juin 2009, était dédiée à l’étude lancée par la Commission pour la révision du Règlement 1/2003. Les contributions présentées ici sont la synthèse de six groupes de travail : I - Le régime de l’exception légale et (...)
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Le 5 juin 2007, le Global Competition Law Center organisait en coopération avec la Commission européenne un colloque dédié aux 50 ans de politique communautaire de concurrence à l’occasion de l’anniversaire du Traité de Rome. Cette manifestation, symboliquement hébergée au Berlaymont, a réuni quelques (...)
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Dans son numéro 2-2005, la revue “Concurrences” publiait un éditorial remarqué du juge Legal qui s’inquiétait des interférences jugées par lui excessives du juge communautaire dans le contrôle des décisions de la Commission. Cet éditorial apporte un point de vue différent en réponse du Professeur Denis (...)
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