Tag: European Commission
EU: EC publishes final e-commerce report
The European Commission's final report on the e-commerce sector inquiry identifies business practices that may restrict competition. It allows the Commission to target its...
EU: CJEU allows use of documents unrelated to investigation
The European Commission was allowed to use documents collected by police in a tax investigation to issue a cartel fine, the EU's top court...
EU: Commission welcomes Court of Justice ruling on bananas cartel appeal
The European Commission welcomes today's Court of Justice ruling confirming that in proving a cartel the Commission can rely on and use as evidence...
EU: EC Belgium to scrap restrictive postal licence terms
The European Commission ordered Belgium on Thursday to end restrictive conditions for postal licences and open up its postal market, dominated by state-owned BPost,...
Russia/EU: Microsoft gains respite from dominance allegations
Russia's Kaspersky Lab has temporarily backed off filing a competition complaint that Microsoft is abusing its market dominance to crowd out anti-virus software makers...
EU: EC raids Swedish mobile operators for blocking rivals
According to concerns raised by the European Commission, Sweden’s telecom companies may have illegally prevented other companies from entering the consumer mobile market.
According to...
EU: EC closes antitrust investigation into ethanol firms
According to Argus Media the European Commission has closed an antitrust investigation that involved unannounced inspections of premises of ethanol producers and trading companies...
EU: Commission approves acquisition of Hamburg Süd by Maersk Line
The European Commission has cleared proposed acquisition of container liner shipping company Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft KG (HSDG) of Germany by Maersk Line A/S of...
US: Vestager stands up for EU’s ruling on tax deals while...
In her first visit to the US since the Trump administration began, EU commissioner Vestager has used her time to defend the right of...
EU: Portugal rejects recommendation to open up fibre network
On Friday, ANACOM Portugal's telecoms regulator, reported it had rejected the European Commission's recommendation that it open up part of Altice's national fibre optic...
