Evidence

Competition proceedings, European Court of Human Rights, European Court of Justice, European Union, Evidence, Witness

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On 22 October 2020, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed in Silver Plastics that the General Court (GC) is not bound to accept a request for the examination of witnesses when it has sufficiently proven that an undertaking took part in an anti-competitive agreement.   Executive Summary The ECJ has confirmed that there is…

Evidence, Leniency, Merger Thresholds, Settlement, Ukraine

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On 21 October 2020, during the kick-off event of the EU-funded Twinning Project, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the “AMC“) announced that it is preparing the draft law that will introduce amendments to the Ukrainian merger filing thresholds. The AMC will submit the draft law to the Ukrainian Parliament early this November and expects it…

Competition proceedings, Dawn raids, Europe, Evidence, Fundamental rights, General Court of the European Union, Privacy

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On 5 October 2020, the General Court of the European Union (GC) partially annulled decisions of the European Commission (EC) to order on-the-spot inspections (dawn raids) of a number of French retailers[1]. The GC held that the EC did not have sufficiently strong evidence to launch dawn raids in respect of some of the suspected…