The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has delivered its long-awaited judgment in the Google Android case. The judgment upholds the General Court's 2022 ruling, which had largely confirmed the European Commission's 2018 decision against Google for abusing its multiple dominant positions in relation to the Android mobile operating system. The Read More
As part of an investigation into anticompetitive practices, the Portuguese competition authority seized, from the premises of the undertakings under investigation, emails exchanged between the employees of those undertakings. The undertakings contested the seizure of emails, arguing that it should have been authorised by an investigating judge rather than by Read More
The Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (“IBER”) is a sector-specific legal instrument that allows (re)insurers to benefit from an exemption to the prohibition of anti-competitive arrangements laid down in Article 101 (1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). At present, the exemption covers two types of Read More
Italian legislation on the reorganisation of local taxationauthorises the provinces and municipalities to organise their own revenues, including taxes, by means of regulations. Local authorities may choose to award the tasks of assessment and collection of taxes and all local revenues to third party operators. In that case, those activities Read More
Article 101 TFEU prohibits agreements which have as their object or effect the restriction of competition. Article 101(3) TFEU provides, subject to certain conditions, for agreements which improve the distribution of products or contribute to promoting economic progress to be granted an individual exemption. In addition, various regulations provide that Read More
The European Commission has revised its rules for the assessment of co-operation agreements between competitors, so called horizontal co-operation agreements. As it is often vital for companies to work together to achieve synergies, there exist a vast number of horizontal co-operation agreements in many industries. “Horizontal co-operation agreements” are agreements Read More
The European Commission has adopted a Regulation (see Commission Regulation (EU) No 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices) block exempting agreements between manufacturers and distributors for the Read More
