Tag: Court of Justice
RPM in the European Union: Any Developments Since Leegin?
CFilippo Amato, Nov 14, 2013
Suspicions regarding the use of resale price maintenance in vertical agreements, i.e., agreements between a supplier and its distributors, have...
Now the Commission Wants Compensation Too The Commission as Private Damages...
Ruchit Patel, Paul Stuart, Jul 15, 2013
In February 2007, the European Commission (the "Commission") adopted an infringement decision finding that a number of manufacturers...
Relying on EU Soft Law Before National Competition Authorities: Hope for...
Oana Stefan, Jul 15, 2013
Instruments deprived of legally binding force according to Article 288 TFEU—notices, guidelines, communications, etc.—have been issued in EU competition law...
EU Court Narrows Scope of the De Minimis Principle
Cormac Little, Jul 15, 2013
A recent court decision has significantly narrowed the application of the de minimis principle under EU competition rules.
In late 2012,...
Interim Relief Before the EU Courts: Three Great Fundamentals and Two...
Eric Barbier de La Serre, Mar 19, 2013
Before the EU Courts, nearly all applications for interim relief-including those made in major competition law cases-are...
Injunctive Relief as an Antitrust Violation or as an Enforcement Tool:...
Yves Botteman, Jean-Francois Guillardeau, Mar 19, 2013
The Apple/Samsung mobile device war has been raging for quite some time. In the European Union, Samsung sought...
Unforeseen Risks of Disclosure in Leniency Programs
Laura Atlee, Dec 13, 2011
When prosecuting cartel infringements, the European Commission (the "Commission") most often builds its case on the basis of corporate leniency...
The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on EU Competition Law: A...
Ben Van Rompuy, Dec 13, 2011
When the EU leaders agreed on the final version of the Lisbon Treaty, one particular amendment caused turmoil in...
Allocating Cartel Fines Among Companies of a Group
Laura Atlee, Yves Botteman, May 12, 2011
We have previously discussed the Akzo Nobel Chemicals case, in which the Court of Justice of the European Union (formerly European...
Legal Privilege or Legal Inconvenience? Some Reflections on the Last Judgment...
Angela Laghezza, Sep 30, 2010
This article analyzes the concept of Legal Professional Privilege ("LPP") in EU through the lenses of the Akzo case. It...
