Tag: TFEU

For several decades, EU antitrust developed incrementally based on a widely accepted doctrinal orthodoxy, which arranged all participants by enabling global investment and trade....

The European Commission’s draft revision of the horizontal cooperation guidance published on March 1, 2022, for the first time includes a specific section on...

By Inês Neves*   On November 18, 2021 the Court of Justice (“ECJ”) delivered its judgment in case C-306/20 (Visma Enterprise SIA v. Konkurences padome) in...

By Sandra Marco Colino (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) This paper explores the concept of vertical restraints or restrictions. It includes references to the...

Recent Commission decisions and judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning purchasing cartels offer insights as to how the Commission...

It seems undeniable that within the EU interest is growing in purchasing alliances and particularly in the grocery retail sector. However, care must be...

By: Pablo Ibañez Colomo (Chilling Competition) Because we tend to be absorbed by the latest news, we may forget that there are several pending cases of...

Starting off with an imaginary, but reality-grounded conversation between two fairly reasonable competition law persons – obviously with opposing views for it to be...

By Christopher Thomas, Raphael Fleischer, Christian Ritz & Stefan Kirwitzke (Hogan Lovells)1 Competition law will not be at the top of companies’ agendas today. COVID-19...

May 2019 CPI EU News Column edited by Thibault Schrepel, Sam Sadden & Jan Roth (CPI) presents: The CJEU Clarifies the Rules on Antitrust Damages Actions Before...