Liothyronine – The CMA prevails in pharma excessive pricing
…prices were not only excessive, but unfair in themselves. The Tribunal held that the Unfair Limb did not consist of two strict alternatives (unfair in itself or unfair when compared…
Search Results for: "self-preferencing"
Abuse of dominance, Advocate General, Anticompetitive agreements, European Court of Justice, European Union, Sport, Sports law
When Sporting Regulators Don’t Play Ball: Rejecting the Sporting Exception in EU Competition Law
…far as club competitions go. Though the project quickly collapsed due to a combination of player, state, and fan pressure, UEFA itself took swift and strict action to oppose the…
Digital, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital markets, Digital Markets Act, Ex ante regulation, Germany, Google
Google’s Automotive Services under the Scope of Section 19a ARC
…power and covers self-preferencing, inter alia through a more favourable presentation of services (litera a)) (see also Google Shopping case) or their pre-installation or integration (litera b)), No 2 is…
Towards Greater Legal Certainty in Public Enforcement of Competition Law: The CNMC Guidelines on Public Procurement Bans
…Exemptions from and revisions of procurement bans: self-cleaning measures Exemptions Article 72.5 LCSP includes the self-cleaning measures established in Article 57.6 of Directive 2014/24/EU, with the following wording: “However, imposing…
Abuse of dominance, Concentrations, Digital, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital markets, Digital Markets Act, Dutch clause, European Commission, Ex ante regulation, Merger control, Merger notification, National competition authorities (NCAs), Platforms
The European Commission’s Template Relating to the Obligation to Inform about (Gatekeeper) Concentrations in the DMA: A Blessing in Disguise?
…Template (Article 14 of the DMA) attracted both academic and institutional attention since its introduction into the regulatory framework. By itself, the provision brings a bold statement to the table:…
Anticompetitive agreements, Cartels, Competition enforcement, Damages, Economics, Estimation, Evidence, National court, Private enforcement, Spain
The Spanish Supreme Court Sentences the Trucks Cartel
…to evidence (French Cour de Cassation, n°19-25065). Likewise, the Spanish Supreme Court itself had ruled before on jurisdictional issues -later addressed also by the CJEU in Volvo C-30/20– in over…
The New EU Horizontal Cooperation Antitrust Rules
…horizontal cooperation agreements. These provide guidance on how to self-assess, including with additional safe harbours, the compatibility with EU competition law of different types of agreements entered into between companies…
Abuse of dominance, Chile, Digital competition, Digital markets, Investigations, Latin America, Market definition
A Short Story of Digital Markets Enforcement in Chile
…aggregated and per inhabitant, and the dynamic and rapidly changing motion of market shares. Similar arguments were used to dismiss a complaint against delivery apps for potential self-preferencing in favour…
Abuse of dominance, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital Markets Act, European Commission, Google, Proportionality, Remedies, Self-preferencing, Statement of Objections
Following Suit: The European Commission’s (Possible) Antitrust Efforts to Break Up Google
…favouring or self-preferencing it may be easier to legitimise that a broad array of specific forms of behaviour that can amount to favouring or self-preferencing must be prevented in order…
Digital, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital markets, Digital Markets Act, European Commission
The European Commission’s (Draft) Template for DMA Compliance Reports: Sailing Through Rough Seas
…for each core platform service“. The list includes self-explanatory fundamentals towards compliance such as “an explanation of how you have assessed compliance with the obligation” (Section 2.1.3. of the Template);…