Serge Clerckx

Mar 6, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jason Beer |Serge Clerckx |Aimee DeFilippo |Mark Jones

The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") launched a market study on 20 February 2024 into baby formula, the latest development in a broader focus on the food and grocery sector.

Feb 27, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jason Beer |Serge Clerckx |Aimee DeFilippo

The market study follows on from an earlier report into price inflation and competition across the sector (the "Price Inflation Report"), where the CMA identified baby formula as a particularly high-margin category that had generated increasing unit profits for manufacturers during the recent period of high inflation. The Price Inflation Report, which was published in November 2023, found that own-label margins were low for most product categories and had fallen in the prior financial year.

Feb 26, 2024 | lexology.com | Jason Beer |Serge Clerckx |Aimee DeFilippo |Mark Jones |Elizabeth Robertson |Rebecca Swindells

The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") launched a market study on 20 February 2024 into baby formula, the latest development in a broader focus on the food and grocery sector.

Feb 13, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jason Beer |Jürgen Beninca |Nicolas Brice |Serge Clerckx

The Development: On January 24, 2024, the European Commission ("EC") unveiled a package of five fresh initiatives aimed at strengthening the European Union's ("EU") economic security (the "Package"). This will likely increase the walled-garden approach of the EU market with expanded control of inbound investments and possibly also novel restrictions on outbound investments. The Background: Ensuring economic security has recently emerged as a new policy priority for the EU.

Jul 24, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Jürgen Beninca |Nicolas Brice |Serge Clerckx

In Short The Situation: On July 13, 2023, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") issued a judgment (Case C-106/22 - Xella) clarifying the conditions under which EU Member States may screen and block foreign direct investments. The Background: Over the past few years, EU Member States have strengthened their national Foreign Direct Investment ("FDI") screening mechanisms and blocked an increasing number of transactions by non-EU investors.