…to allow businesses that self-report competition law infringements to secure immunity from private damages actions by third parties. The DMCC Bill also contains a range of proposals to empower the…
…public interest. However, governance is not a self-supporting and self-enhancing tool in the hands of an authority operating in a vacuum. Instead, trust is (at least in theory) a pre-requisite…
…These companies acquire the data in question from their activities in different markets, possibly through self-preferencing or enveloping practices. The HCC noted that this phenomenon entails possible exclusionary effects for…
…to the infringement and the quantification of the overcharge are admirable (the appellate court itself described its analysis as “faultless”). In my opinion, the CAT judgment in the Royal Mail…
…are excessive or predatory. In contrast, the regulation dropped the prior prohibition of self-preferencing that was contained in the prior draft but retained a provision that prohibits the abuse of…
…third-party vendors (vertical discrimination). The Decision does not use these concepts and blurs (see, e.g., Recital 219) the line between horizontal discrimination and self-favouring (mirroring Google Shopping), but the meaning…
…suppliers would not be able to price discriminate between customer groups, and without distinguishing between modes of delivery (i.e., delivery by the supplier vs. self-collection by the customer). The Court…
…self-preferencing and competition law self-preferencing raise concerns. The first workshop gave some food for thought but the discussion on self-preferencing is far from over. Next to seminars on the DMA,…
…compliance as transparent as possible. After the first two stakeholders’ workshops on the ban on self-preferencing and interoperability relating to messaging services, on the 6th of March, the Commission held…
…compliance as transparent as possible. After the first stakeholders’ workshop on the ban on self-preferencing, on the 27th of February, the Commission held its second workshop around the interpretation of…
