…Horizontal Guidelines on how to self-assess sustainability agreements Broader scope of the definition of “sustainability” that includes not just environmental initiatives, but also social objectives (e.g., labour and human rights)…
…the CMA. Proposals include refining the CMA’s leniency programme to allow businesses that self-report competition law infringements to secure not only immunity from fines, prosecution and director disqualification (as at…
…for dominant undertakings. Based on this finding, it reframed the European Commission decision as an abusive discrimination case, with self-preferencing amounting to an independent form of abuse under Article 102…
…of databases created as a result of a substantial investment, even if the database itself is not an original intellectual creation protected by copyright. The Data Act excludes application of…
…required by the European Court of Justice in AKZO to condemn pricing below ATC. Under this AKZO doctrine, only pricing below AVC would be abusive in itself, but DG COMP…
…limited interoperability between HIS/EPF systems used by different hospitals, unreasonable technical and contractual limitations imposed by the providers of these systems and self-preferencing via e.g. bundling and high tariffs. The…
…examples of information exchanges that can and cannot benefit from block exemption. Whilst the proposed guidance will make self-assessment easier in some respects, the EC has chosen to adopt a…
…practices by digital platforms, such as self-preferencing. Furthermore, the agency at times broadened its remit to tackle the abusive exploitation of the state of economic dependence in the digital and…
…concerns around potential ‘conflict of interest’ positions that Big Tech platforms may find themselves in, and the anti-competitive impacts flowing from such platforms acting on their incentive to self-preference their…
…the EGEO Group companies €2.9 million. This case shows that merger control is not a mere bureaucratic formality. As such, companies and their legal counsel must do thorough self-assessment beforehand…
