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1 week ago | 
jdsupra.com | Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi |Francesco Carloni
Antitrust and Competition European Commission Launches Evaluation of the Geo-Blocking RegulationOn 11 February 2025, the European Commission launched a call for evidence to seek stakeholders’ views on the Geo-Blocking Regulation (EU) 2018/302 to assess its effectiveness. The Geo-Blocking Regulation prohibits geography-based restrictions that limit online shopping and cross-border sales within the European Union.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi |Francesco Carloni
[co-author: Edoardo Crosetto]Antitrust and Competition The French Competition Authority Launches Public Consultation Addressing Below-Threshold Transactions On 14 January 2025, the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence, FCA) launched a public consultation on the introduction of a new merger control framework aimed at addressing below-threshold transactions that could harm competition in France.
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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Francesco Carloni |Giovanni Campi |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Michael Hofmann Dr
On 14 January 2025, the French Competition Authority(Autorité de la concurrence, FCA) launched a public consultation on the introduction of anew merger control framework aimed at addressing below-thresholdtransactions that could harm competition in France. The FCA's initiative follows the Illumina/Grail judgmentissued by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 3September 2024.
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Mélanie Bruneau |Francesco Carloni |Giovanni Campi |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Michael Hofmann |Simas Gerdvila | +2 more
Antitrust and CompetitionThe French Competition Authority Launches Public Consultation Addressing Below-Threshold Transactions On 14 January 2025, the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence, FCA) launched a public consultation on the introduction of a new merger control framework aimed at addressing below-threshold transactions that could harm competition in France.
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2 months ago | 
mondaq.com | Francesco Carloni |Giovanni Campi |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Michael Hofmann Dr
European Commission Imposes a Total Fine of €5.7Million for Restricting Cross-Border SalesOn 28 November 2024, the European Commission imposed a totalfine of €5,737,000 million on a company active in the fashionindustry and its largest licensee for breaching Article 101(1) ofthe Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union by restrictingcross-border sales of the fashion brand's products, as well assales of such products to specific customer.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Francesco Carloni |Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Michael Hofmann |Petr Bartoš | +4 more
The General Court Upholds Commission’s Findings on Abusive Predatory PricingOn 18 September 2024, the General Court of the European Union (General Court) largely upheld the fine imposed by the European Commission (Commission) finding that a global tech company had engaged in predatory pricing of its mobile chipsets. This judgment confirms that dominant companies’ conduct consisting in pricing below cost can be hardly justified.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Mélanie Bruneau |Francesco Carloni |Giovanni Campi |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Michael Hofmann |Simas Gerdvila | +4 more
Antitrust and Competition The Court of Justice of the European Union Finds That the European Commission Lacks Jurisdiction to Review Transactions That Fall Below the EU and National Merger Filing Thresholds On 3 September 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) overturned the judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2022 and annulled the European Commission (Commission) decisions to review a transaction that was not reportable at both EU and national Member State level...
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Francesco Carloni |Giovanni Campi |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Michael Hofmann Dr
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Mélanie Bruneau |Francesco Carloni |Giovanni Campi |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Michael Hofmann |Simas Gerdvila | +4 more
Antitrust and CompetitionThe European Commission Opens an Investigation into Alleged Market Allocation and No-Poach Agreements in the Online Food Delivery SectorOn 23 July 2024, the Commission opened an antitrust investigation against two large online food delivery companies (Companies) in the European Economic Area (EEA). In July 2018, one of the two Companies acquired a minority shareholding in the other company and subsequently acquired sole control in July 2022.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Francesco Carloni |Nikolaos Peristerakis |Vittoriana Todisco
August 14, 2024 Francesco Carloni, Covadonga Corell Pérez de Rada, Nikolaos Peristerakis, Vittoriana Todisco K&L Gates LLP + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In the recent years we have seen exponential increases in the amount of fines imposed by the European Commission (Commission) for infringements of competition rules, fines in the range of hundreds of millions or even billions are not uncommon for hardcore...
