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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 | 
jdsupra.com | Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi |Simas Gerdvila
[co-author: Edoardo Crosetto]On 26 February 2025, the European Commission published the Omnibus Simplification Package, a set of proposals designed to streamline key EU sustainability regulations, eliminate redundancies, and reduce administrative burden and compliance costs for companies — while preserving the EU’s ambitious environmental objectives.
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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Annette Mutschler-Siebert |Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi |Martina A. Maggioni
On 26 February 2025, the European Commission published theOmnibus Simplification Package, a set of proposals designed tostreamline key EU sustainability regulations, eliminateredundancies, and reduce administrative burden and compliance costsfor companies — while preserving the EU's ambitiousenvironmental objectives. If adopted in the currently proposed form, companies will havemore time to comply with the CSRD reporting requirements and theCSDDD supply chain due diligence obligations.
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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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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Annette Mutschler-Siebert |M. Jur |Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi |Simas Gerdvila |Martina A. Maggioni | +1 more
On 26 February 2025, the European Commission published the Omnibus Simplification Package, a set of proposals designed to streamline key EU sustainability regulations, eliminate redundancies, and reduce administrative burden and compliance costs for companies — while preserving the EU’s ambitious environmental objectives. If adopted in the currently proposed form, companies will have more time to comply with the CSRD reporting requirements and the CSDDD supply chain due diligence obligations.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Mélanie Bruneau
Antitrust and CompetitionCompetition Cooperation Agreement Between the European Union and the United KingdomOn 29 October 2024, the European Union and the UK government finalized the technical discussions on a competition cooperation agreement. This agreement will enable closer cooperation between the UK Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission, as well as EU Member States’ national competition authorities, in antitrust investigations.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Petr Bartoš |Mélanie Bruneau |Kathleen Keating
On 17 October 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its Fourth Annual Report on the screening of foreign direct investments (FDI) into the Union (Fourth Annual Report), which is an annual update of the FDI reviews undertaken at the EU level under the EU cooperation mechanism on FDI screening (EU FDI mechanism).
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Petr Bartoš |Mélanie Bruneau |Giovanni Campi
[co-author: Edoardo Crosetto]Antitrust and CompetitionThe 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 24, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Bruce D. Sokler |Alexander Hecht |Stefanie Marrone |Mélanie Bruneau
Scammers are always looking for new ways to dupe victims. If you battle your weight, you think about it a lot and are always looking for easier ways to lose some pounds. There is no easy way, but we are always looking for an easier way. With the advent of GLP-1 weight loss drugs and their popularity, it has been reported that it is more difficult to obtain weight loss drugs, and they are in high demand.
