Kasia Czapracka, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

European Union, Foreign Subsidy Regulation, Public procurement

FSR & Public Tenders in the EU: Key Insights at the Two-Year Mark

James Killick, Irina Trichkovska, Kasia Czapracka, Enrique Fayos de Arizón, Jia Liu (White & Case)/June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 /Leave a comment

Two years into the implementation of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), the number of FSR filings under its public procurement tool exceeds 2,000, with scrutiny now by a recently established specialised unit within DG GROW of the European Commission. The new filing obligation impacts significantly the timeline and preparations for large public tenders in…

Abuse of dominance, Advocate General, European Court of Justice, Four-to-three Merger, General Court of the European Union, Guidelines, Horizontal, Judicial review, Merger control, Merger notification, Merger Thresholds

ECJ Advocate General Recommends Setting Aside the CK Telecoms Judgment and Endorsing the European Commission’s Established Approach to Reviewing Mergers in Oligopolistic Markets

Mark Powell, Kasia Czapracka, Tilman Kuhn, Jérémie Jourdan, Cornelius Börner (White & Case) and Peter Citron (Editor) (White & Case, Belgium)/October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 /Leave a comment

Advocate General Kokott has found [1] that the General Court erred in law in requiring the European Commission to show anti-competitive effects of a merger with “strong probability” and that the scope of its judicial review was overly broad, notably in relation to economic evidence. Key takeaways This case will give the Court of…