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Oct 17, 2024 | 
sn.at | Andreas Reindl
Aufgerufen am 17.10.2024 um 08:11 auf https://www.sn.at/fotoblog/schoene-heimat/salzburg-c-2023-a3-ueber-stauffen-166897282
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Giovanni Pregno |Michael Clancy |Andreas Reindl
On 27 June 2024, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) delivered its judgments in the Servier case (Cases C-176/19 P et al), siding with the European Commission’s initial decision and setting forth an analysis that will increase the risks that patent settlement agreements can be found to infringe EU competition law. In particular, the CJEU (i) applied principles to market definition in pharmaceutical cases that will often result in very narrow markets (making findings of dominance more like...
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May 28, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Andreas Reindl |Giovanni Pregno
On 24 April 2024, the European Commission (Commission) activated
for the first time the International Procurement Instrument (IPI),
opening an investigation into procurement procedures for medical
devices in China.
The IPI is a recent addition to the Commission toolbox of
trade-related instruments designed to promote access to foreign
procurement markets (see our alert of June 2022).
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May 22, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Andreas Reindl |Victor-Emanuel Ion
On 23 May 2024, the European Commission (“Commission”) fined Mondelēz International, Inc. (“Mondelēz”) € 337.5 million for restricting the cross-border trade of various chocolate, biscuit and coffee products, and for abusing its dominant position through unilateral strategies limiting cross-border sales of chocolate tablets into certain national markets. This is the highest fine ever imposed by the Commission in a case concerning unlawful restrictions on parallel trade between Member States.
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May 2, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Andreas Reindl |Giovanni Pregno
The European Commission (“Commission”) has recently embarked on a series of significant investigations under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”) – a pivotal, novel EU tool designed to tackle distortions in the internal market stemming from foreign subsidies. These developments highlight the Commission's political willingness to protect European businesses against subsidized competition by Chinese companies.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Andreas Reindl |Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo |Douglas Ginsburg
In its decision of 29 April 2024, the Swedish Competition Authority (the “Authority”) prohibited the acquisition of Svensk dos AB (Svensk dos) by Apotekstjänst Sverige (Apotekstjänst) on the ground that the proposed transaction – which would have combined the number one and number three players and left the Swedish market with a duopoly – would reduce competition in the market for contracts governing the provision of individually packed prescription pharmaceuticals to patients. The transactio...
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Andreas Reindl |Giovanni Pregno
On 24 April 2024, the European Commission ( Commission ) activated for the first time the International Procurement Instrument (IPI), opening an investigation into procurement procedures for medical devices in China. What is the IPI? The IPI is a recent addition to the Commission toolbox of traderelated instruments designed to promote access to foreign procurement markets (see our alert of June 2022). It empowers the Commission to examine third country measures that hinder access for EU busin...
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Valérie Lefever |Giovanni Pregno |Andreas Reindl
On 20 December 2023, the French Competition Authority (“FCA”) fined Sony € 13.5 million for abusing its dominant position in the market for the supply of controllers for the PlayStation 4 (“PS4”) video game console between November 2015 and April 2020. This case was initiated after Subsonic, a French manufacturer of PS4-compatible video game controllers affected by Sony’s practices, alleged that Sony had made it more difficult to use certain third-party video game controllers with Sony’s PS4.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Andreas Reindl
On 1 June 2023, the European Commission (“Commission”) adopted the final version of its new horizontals package, including revised Guidelines on horizontal cooperation agreements (“Guidelines”) which became effective as of 1 July 2023. The latest in our series of alerts on different aspects of the Commission’s package looks at the new guidance on how to assess the competition law risks of the use of algorithmic pricing tools, set out in the Guidelines’ revised chapter on information exchange.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Niharika Parshurampuria |Andreas Reindl |Catherine Gordley
On 13 July 2023, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) handed down its judgment in Case C-376/20 P Commission v CK Telecoms UK Investments regarding the legal standard and burden of proof in so-called “gap cases”.
