Tag: European Commission
EU: Antitrust regulators welcome Amazon, Apple audiobook deal
Antitrust regulators from the European Union have welcomed an agreement between Apple and Amazon to end exclusivity deals for audiobooks.
The agreement between Apple and...
UK: Landmark $17 billion Mastercard class action enters court
The first key hearing in a landmark UK class action against MasterCard gets underway on Wednesday, with the Competition Appeals Tribunal set to determine...
EU: Toshiba loses court appeal against cartel fine on joint venture
Japanese consumer electronics group Toshiba on Wednesday lost an appeal against an EU cartel fine levied on its joint venture with Panasonic five years...
EU: Macfarlanes’ to open Brussels’ office with competition specialist
Macfarlanes’ new Brussels office will be launched with the hire of an EU and competition specialist from King & Wood Mallesons, while three of...
UK: Britain to leave EU market as May sets ‘hard Brexit’...
Britain will quit the EU single market when it leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday in a decisive speech...
Geo-Blocking Between Competition Law And Regulation
By Giorgio Monti & Gonçalo Coelho -
The Digital Agenda is one of the key pillars of the EU’s industrial policy. One of its aims is...
EU: Commission proposes new level of privacy regulations
The European Commission (EC) wants stricter privacy rules to govern the online environment, bringing Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, and others on par with telecoms in...
EU: Court of Justice gives judgment on Animal Feed cartel
The General Court had upheld a Commission decision of July 2010 fining several companies for coordinating prices and allocating sales quotas for animal feed...
EU: EC approves €4.5bn French state aid for Areva
The European Commission (EC) has approved French government's plan to inject €4.5bn ($4.8bn) in the troubled nuclear engineering firm Areva.
The Commission has concluded that...
EU: EC to pay for lengthy cartel appeal case
A European Union court on Tuesday awarded two companies damages against the bloc for the excessive delay in the industrial bag makers' appeal of...
