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Oct 27, 2024 | 
singletonargus.com.au | Steve Ross
The winners of the Peter Mathews Memorial Cup Doug Elphick and Graham Bull with Kate Mathews. The 2024 Peter Mathews Memorial Cup was played in perfect conditions with a pleasing field of 56 golfers turning out to honour the contribution made to Branxton Golf Club by Peter Mathews. Subscribe now for unlimited access.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Steve Ross |Richard Burton |Jeffrey Tassey
On 4 October 2024, the Spanish Competition Authority (“SCA”) adopted a decision imposing a € 2.43 million fine on the General Council of Court Attorneys (“CGPE”) for two unlawful practices which were found to infringe Article 101 TFEU and its national equivalent. The CGPE is a public association that represents all Spanish court attorneys at national level. It operates an online auction platform, which regional councils use in extra-judicial auctions (Spanish law provides for extrajudicial au...
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Steve Ross |Richard Burton |Elizabeth Lucas Richmond
On 2 October 2024, the General Court dismissed an appeal against a Commission decision re-imposing fines on telecommunication companies Pharol (formerly Portugal Telecom) and Telefónica for concluding a noncompete agreement.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Steve Ross |Richard Burton |Arian Birth
On 2 October 2024, the General Court dismissed the actions for annulment brought by Crown Holdings (“Crown”) and Silgan Holdings (“Silgan”) (the “Applicants”) against a settlement decision adopted by the European Commission (“Commission”), which found that they had illegally exchanged sensitive business information and coordinated commercial strategies in relation to metal cans and closures in Germany (Cases T-587/22, Crown Holdings and T-589/22, Silgan Holdings).
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Steve Ross |Richard Burton |Elizabeth Lucas Richmond
On 2 October 2024, the General Court dismissed an appeal against a Commission decision re-imposing fines on telecommunication companies Pharol (formerly Portugal Telecom) and Telefónica for concluding a noncompete agreement.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Steve Ross |Richard Burton |Mitko Vasilev
On 29 July 2024, the European Court of Justice of the EU (“ECJ”) issued a preliminary ruling in a case referred to by the Portuguese Competition, Regulation and Supervision Court (the “referring court”) on whether a stand-alone exchange of commercial information between competing banks could constitute a restriction of competition by object infringing Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”) (Case C-298/22 (Banco BPN v BIC Português and Others).
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Steve Ross |Richard Burton |Frenkchris Sinay
Van Bael & Bellis (Brussels) Associate Frenkchris Sinay is an associate with Van Bael & Bellis, he is based in Brussels, where he focuses on the organisation of markets under European Union law and public international law. Frenkchris has a keen interest in the use of trade and investment agreements as well as competition and customs rules to open markets, improve supply chains, and resolve international disputes.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Frenkchris Sinay |Steve Ross |Richard Burton
On 22 April 2024, the High Court of England and Wales ruled that the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”) had set an erroneously high legal standard for the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) to exercise its powers to search domestic premises under section 28A of the Competition Act 1998 (“CA 1998”).
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jean-François Bellis |Steve Ross
On 21 December 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“Court of Justice”), in its Grand Chamber composition, delivered two important judgments relating to the application of EU competition law to sports federations in Cases C-124/21 P, International Skating Union (“ISU”) and C-333/21, European Superleague Company (“ESL”).
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
concurrences.com | Van Bael |Steve Ross |Richard Burton
On 20 December 2023, the General Court delivered two judgments following appeals lodged by JP Morgan Chase and Crédit agricole against the European Commission’s decision in the Euro Interest Rate Derivatives (“EIRDs”) cartel case (Case T-106/17, JP Morgan Chase and Others v Commission; Case T- 113/17, Crédit agricole and Crédit agricole Corporate and Investment Bank v Commission). Most of the pleas brought by JP Morgan and Crédit agricole were dismissed.
