2024 has been a landmark year for competition law, unfair competition, and foreign direct investment (FDI) screening in Romania, marked by significant changes that have reshaped the regulatory landscape. The Romanian Competition Council (RCC) has solidified its role as a proactive authority, capable of responding swiftly when needed, launching unprecedented enforcement actions in the IT,…
This blog post provides a brief overview of some of the most important developments in Australian competition law and policy in 2024. It has been another busy year for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), particularly in the areas of mergers, digital platform markets, supermarkets, and sustainability. Notably, this year also marks the 50th…
We are happy to inform you that the latest issue of the journal is now available and includes the following contributions: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, Resale Price Maintenance in EU Competition Law: Understanding the Significance of Super Bock The Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in Super Bock is a significant development in EU competition law….
Today we are closing another great year at the Kluwer Competition Law Blog! We want to thank you all for your contributions, discussions and overall curiosity for competition law and policy. We are excited for 2025 and all the developments we can follow together. In 2024, the most read blogposts posted in 2024 were:…
With the introduction of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), the European Union (EU) embarked on a new regulatory era. This landmark regulation aims at addressing the distortive effects of subsidies granted by foreign – non-EU – countries to companies operating within the EU, and ensuring a level playing field and fair competition across the internal…
The year 2024, in Malta, has seen the first (ever) merger control prohibition decision, a number of ongoing antitrust investigations, and the overturning of a ‘margin squeeze’ judgement by the Competition and Consumer Affairs Appeals Tribunal (an appeals body that has since been abolished) (“Competition Appeals Tribunal”) dating back to 2014. In September 2024 the…
Introduction and summary The year 2024 brought us a lot of developments in Norwegian competition law, including the largest fine ever imposed by the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA) for violations of competition law, the proposal of a new market investigation tool that will grant the NCA extensive powers to tackle competition challenges, alongside a continued…
The recent Google Shopping ruling has already sparked much debate, and an earlier blog post offers a detailed overview of the judgment itself. Building on this, this contribution’s focus is to emphasize and discuss some aspects in the academic analysis, the judgment’s broader implications and outlook for further actions. It builds upon a recently published…
Key message The discretion afforded to the European Commission (‘EC’) is of central importance with regard to the implementation and enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA’). If viewed as arbitrariness, particularly in view of a normative framework that arguably permits such a perspective, the European Commission’s decisions may potentially jeopardise the rule of law…
The application of competition rules to the conduct and concentrations of employers has been called ‘the new frontier for competition policy’ (see here). This so-called ‘labour antitrust’ has been growing rapidly especially on the other side of the Atlantic over the last fifteen years (see here). ‘All eyes are on labor’ in the United States…
