Andrea Usai is a Case Handler at the European Commission, DG Competition (Mergers). Prior to that he worked in private practice (Brussels) and, prior to that, as a BlueBook trainee in the unit dealing with antitrust in IT, Internet and Consumer Electronics (DGComp). He holds a PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Strasbourg (2015) and, under the supervision of Professor Richard Whish, he successfully obtained his LLM in Competition Law at King’s College London (2012). During his PhD he focused on the impact of Internal Market, Public Procurement and State Aid provisions on certain authorisations and concession contracts. He has also presented a few papers at international conferences and he has published a few articles in international journals, such as the European Competition Law Review. During his LLM he wrote his dissertation on fairness and efficiency in the enforcement of cartel cases.
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After giving an overview of the most recent and relevant EU and national cases in which questions concerning access to facilities have arose, this foreword will outline what are the key competition challenges, in terms of access to facilities, which are lying ahead for the European transport sector. More specifically on this point, some categories of road and maritime transport are currently going through significant changes.
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The AGCM fined Unilever Italia Mkt Operations Srl (“Unilever”), which belongs to the Unilever Group and is active in the production and distribution of ice cream, food and home and personal care products, EUR 60.669 million for infringing Article 102 TFEU by putting in place exclusivity clauses (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) decided that, according to Art. 14-ter of Italian Law 287/1990, the commitments that Novartis and Italfarmaco had submitted in order to alleviate concerns in terms of an alleged infringement of Art. 101 TFEU, should have been published, both in its (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has fined the Order of notaries of Milan a total of 99,403 euro for adopting a decision aimed at limiting the autonomy in the determination of individual notaries’ remuneration by reintroducing repealed minimum tariffs. The aim of the deliberation that (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has opened investigations against Telecom Italia Spa, Vodafone and Wind for an alleged cartel aimed at forcing dealers not to give access to the downstream market to BIP mobile, the brand new mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) mainly acting as an (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has fined the Pfizer group, a multinational company in the pharmaceutical sector, a total of 10.6 million euro for abusing its dominant position in the market for commercializing glaucoma medicines based on the active ingredient latanoprost. The Pfizer (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (hereinafter “AGCM”) has fined a trade association and 20 trucking companies that haul freight to or from Italy a total of € 76.447.677 for operating a single and complex price-fixing cartel having as its object the restriction of competition for at least five (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (hereafter Agcm) has accepted and made binding commitments offered by the National Consortium established under Italian private law to rationalize, organize and promote the recovery and recycling of cellulose-based packaging (hereafter “COMIECO”). The Agcm (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (hereafter Agcm) has fined 16 producers of cosmetics, drugs and soaps a total of € 81.181.335 for operating a complex price-fixing cartel having as its object the restriction of competition which harmed Italian consumers of cosmetics, drugs and soaps for seven (...)
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The Italian Competition Authority (hereinafter AGCM) is to investigate the Order of Lawyers in Brescia to determine whether the Order’s decision, which punished for unfair and unbecoming conduct two Italian lawyers of the law firm “Legal Aid for All” (ALT), constitutes a decision by an association (...)
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