Steve Ross is an associate with Van Bael & Bellis based in their Brussels office. He focuses on EU competition law, as well as EU and French regulatory law, including environmental and consumer protection law. His experience extends to international trade law, with a particular emphasis on anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations. Prior to joining Van Bael & Bellis, Steve worked at a European Affairs consultancy firm and an international law firm in Brussels.
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On 12 January 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) dismissed an appeal lodged by HSBC against a General Court judgment partially upholding the Commission’s decision in the Euro interest rate derivatives (“EIRD”) cartel case. In 2013, the European Commission adopted a decision (...)
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On 15 December 2022, Advocate General (“AG”) Rantos issued an opinion in the European Superleague Company case in which he recommended that the FIFA-UEFA rules on the prior approval of new sports competitions should be held to be compatible with Articles 101 and 102 TFEU. The AG considered that, (...)
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On 15 December 2022, Advocate General (“AG”) Rantos issued an opinion in which he recommended that the Court of Justice of the EU should set aside a General Court judgment largely upholding a 2017 Commission decision that the eligibility rules of the International Skating Union (the “ISU”) had (...)
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On 7 December 2022, the General Court dismissed the appeal brought by Consorzio Cooperative di Produzione e Lavoro, Coopbox Group and Coopbox Eastern (together, the “Applicants”) against a re-adopted Commission decision in the Retail Food Packaging cartel case (Case T-130/21, CCPL and Others v (...)
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On 29 November 2022, the European Commission (the “Commission”) announced that it had imposed fines totalling €157 million on five companies involved in a purchasing cartel concerning styrene monomer (“styrene”) for various periods between 1 May 2012 and 30 June 2018. The five companies fined - (...)
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On 9 November 2022, the General Court dismissed in their entirety appeals lodged by a number of Italian manufacturers against the European Commission’s (“Commission”) re-adopted decision of 2019 in the Reinforcing steel bars cartel case. (T-655/19, Ferriera Valsabbia and Valsabbia Investimenti ; (...)
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On 10 October 2022, the European Commission (the “Commission”) announced that it had sent a Statement of Objections to Teva, a pharmaceutical company marketing Copaxone®, a medicine indicated for the treatment of specific forms of multiple sclerosis. The Statement of Objections comes over a year (...)
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In its judgment of 14 September 2022 (the “Judgment”), the General Court partially upheld Google’s appeal against the Commission’s 2018 Google/Android decision, but upheld the decision’s most important and consequential elements, thus confirming that certain of Google’s practices regarding the (...)
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In its Sept. 14 judgment in Google and Alphabet v. Commission, the European Union’s General Court partially upheld Google LLC’s appeal against the European Commission’s 2018 Google Android decision, but confirmed the decision’s most important and consequential elements. The court held that certain (...)
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On 16 June 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) issued four judgments in which it partially annulled earlier judgments of the General Court, which had upheld the 2015 Commission Decision in relation to the optical disk drives (“ODDs”) cartel case. In that case, the Commission (...)
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On 14 February 2022, the European Commission (“Commission”) launched a public consultation on an initiative for a new framework for standard essential patents (“SEPs”) called “Intellectual property – new framework for standard essential patents”, in order to receive the views of citizens and (...)
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General Court overturns Commission’s Intel decision On 26 January 2022, the General Court of the European Union annulled most of the decision of the European Commission (“Commission”), which had imposed a fine of € 1.06 billion on Intel for having abused its dominant position on the worldwide (...)
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In its judgment of 25 January 2022, the Austrian Supreme Court granted a request by Sky, a pay-tv provider holding an exclusive licence for the broadcasting of UEFA Champions League football matches in Austria, to prohibit an inn in Austria from showing such games via a third-party pay-tv (...)
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On 10 December 2021, the European Commission issued a press release in which it reported that it had fined Spanish ethanol producer, Abengoa S.A. and its subsidiary Abengoa Bionenergía S.A. (together, “Agengoa”), € 20 million for participating in a cartel concerning the wholesale price formation (...)
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On 7 December 2021, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (“IPO”) launched a call for views on Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”) in order to better understand whether the current SEPs framework : (i) is functioning efficiently ; (ii) supports innovation (particularly in light of the UK (...)
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On 29 September 2021, the European General Court (“EGC”) dismissed in five separate judgments appeals lodged by Japanese producers, namely NEC Corporation, Nichicon Corporation, Tokin Corporation, Rubycon and Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation, against a decision adopted by the European Commission (...)
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On 20 May 2021, the European Commission adopted a decision imposing fines on a series of investment banks relating to the trading of European Government Bonds (“EGB”). EGB In its decision, adopted on 20 May 2021, the Commission found seven investment banks, Bank of America, Natixis, Nomura, RBS (...)
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On 28 April, the European Commission adopted a decision imposing fines on a series of investment banks relating to the trading of Supra-sovereign, Sovereign and Agency (“SSA”) bonds. SSA Bonds In the first decision, adopted on 28 April 2021, the Commission imposed total fines of € 28 million on (...)
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On 25 March 2021, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) dismissed all appeals against the 2016 rulings of the General Court which had upheld the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision to fine Lundbeck and four generic pharmaceutical companies (Merck, Alpharma, Arrow and Ranbaxy) for (...)
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On 8 October 2020, Advocate General (“AG”) Hogan issued his opinion in Pometon SpA v European Commission (Case C-440/19) in connection with the Steel Abrasives cartel case. In his opinion, the AG advises the Court of Justice (“ECJ”) to partially uphold the appeal in so far as the General Court (...)
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On 24 September 2020, the Court of Justice (“ECJ”) rejected the Italian power-cable manufacturer Prysmi- an’s appeal against the € 104.6 million fine imposed on it by the Commission in 2014 for its involvement in the Power Cables cartel case. The ECJ upheld the earlier ruling by the General Court (...)
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On 9 September 2020, the Spanish Competition Authority (“CNMC”) imposed fines totalling € 3.36 million on 33 school transport companies and fined one association € 15,000 for their involvement in a bid-rigging cartel in the school transport sector in the region of Navarre from 1 December 2013 until (...)
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On 26 August 2020, the UK Supreme Court issued a judgment in a licence dispute involving Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”) pitting Unwired Planet, a US based patent assertion entity, against Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company that produces smartphones. Unwired Planet brought an (...)
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On 25 August 2020, the German Federal Court of Justice (“FCJ”) overturned the decision of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf to terminate proceedings against members of a bid-rigging cartel fined by the FCO in 2018. The FCJ ruled that the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf had erred in (...)
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