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Nov 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Édouard Bruc |Frederic Louis |Cormac O'Daly
At the end of 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) signed the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which both parties then ratified in 2021.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Édouard Bruc
Notwithstanding the lack of clear legislative intent, Belgian
judges have unilaterally prohibited the arbitration of exclusive
distribution disputes, unless a specific Belgian pro-distributor
statute was applied or unless similar substantive foreign rules
were applied. However, in 2023, the Court of Cassation finally
reversed its jurisprudence. Yet, the syllogism underlying this
long-awaited reversal remains unsatisfactory.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Édouard Bruc
Notwithstanding the lack of clear legislative intent, Belgian judges have unilaterally prohibited the arbitration of exclusive distribution disputes, unless a specific Belgian pro-distributor statute was applied or unless similar substantive foreign rules were applied. However, in 2023, the Court of Cassation finally reversed its jurisprudence. Yet, the syllogism underlying this longawaited reversal remains unsatisfactory.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Édouard Bruc |Frederic Louis |Cormac O'Daly
As already outlined in last year’s overview, since the enactment of EU Directive 2014/104 (‘Damages Directive’), private enforcement of EU competition law in the EU has continued to develop at an impressive pace. Putting aside the United Kingdom, which has since left the EU, an eye-catching occurrence of this growth is perhaps Germany, where the number of damages claims doubled every year between 2011–2018.
Originally published in ICLG Competition Litigation 2025.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Édouard Bruc
EU competition law – Antitrust – Articles 101 and
102 of the TFEU – CJEU – Direct effect of EU law
– Direct effect of treaty provisions – Direct effect of
secondary legislation – Effectiveness principle –
Principle of equivalence – Direct effect of fundamental
rights EU competition rules are crucial to the
strengthening of the Union's internal market. And direct effect
has long been a structuring legal principle of the Union's
legal order, helping to ensure its autonomous nature.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Édouard Bruc
EU competition rules are crucial to the strengthening of the Union’s internal market. And direct effect has long been a structuring legal principle of the Union’s legal order, helping to ensure its autonomous nature.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Édouard Bruc
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Le point de vue du praticien sur l'effet direct du froit de l'Union européenne et le droit de la concurrence Autores: Édouard Bruc Localización: Revue des affaires europeennes, ISSN 1152-9172, Nº 1, 2024, págs. 137-148 Idioma: francés Títulos paralelos: A practitioner's perspective on direct effect of EU law and antitrust law Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Frederic Louis |Anne Vallery |Cormac O'Daly |Édouard Bruc
Almost 10 years after the enactment of EU Directive 2014/104 ('Damages Directive'), the private enforcement of competition law in the European Union ('EU') has truly taken off.1 By the end of 2020, at least 299 cartel damages actions had been decided in 14 Member States, compared with only about 50 in early 2014.2 Various factors explain such growth, including the Damages Directive's claimant-friendly legal framework, pro-claimant rulings by the European Court of Justice ('ECJ'), a more...
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Édouard Bruc
In an article entitled "Google Shopping and
Article 106 TFEU: A Legal Dystopia in the EU Constitutional
Order," Associate Édouard Bruc analyzes the EU General
Court's ruling and the European Commission's Antitrust
Decision against Google. He explains in particular why they depart
radically from past case law and risk undermining the more economic
approach and consumer welfare standard. The article is published in
the Oxford Journal of European Competition Law & Practice.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Édouard Bruc |Cormac O'Daly
On February 8, a UK court ruled that the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) lacks the power to force companies without a “territorial connection” to the United Kingdom to produce documents in a CMA investigation. If this decision is upheld on appeal, such companies will have critical protections that were not previously clear.
