The Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment, upholding the European Commission’s right to refuse access to cartel documents.

The ECJ judgment arises from a 2005 decision in which the Commission imposed fines totalling €290.71 million on sixteen companies for infringing Article 101(1) TFEU.

The European Competition Network (ECN) brings together the European Commission and the National Competition Authorities ("NCAs") of all the EU Member States.

Under EU case-law, anti-competitive agreements and concerted practices fall within the scope of Article 101 TFEU if there is a sufficient degree of probability that they may have a direct or indirect effect, ...

On 1 December 2014, the new cooperation agreement in competition matters concluded by the European Union with the Swiss Confederation entered into force.

In such circumstances, the Commission is required to provide a statement of reasons for this departure, including an explanation of the factors which enabled it to determine the gravity of the infringement and its duration...

On 27 June 2012, the EU's General Court ("GC") handed down its judgment on the appeal brought by French investment and industrial group Bolloré.

On 23 January 2014, the General Court of the European Union ("GC") handed down three separate judgments concerning appeals brought by SKW Stahl-Metallurgie ("SKW"), Evonik Degussa and its subsidiary Alzchem ("Degussa"), and Gigaset against a 2009 European Commission decision fining them for their participation in a cartel on the markets for calcium carbide-based and magnesium-based reagents.

On 12 December 2014, the EU General Court handed down judgments on a number of appeals against the European Commission’s decision in the paraffin-wax cartel case.

The cartel in question was a six-party European cartel among makers of phosphates used in animal feed, dating back to 1969.

On 27 November 2017, the General Court ("GC") dismissed appeals brought by HeidelbergCement and Schwenk Zement against the European Commission's ...

On 11 December 2013, the EU General Court upheld the European Commission’s clearance of Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype against a challenge brought by Cisco Systems and Messagenet.

The EU Parliament and Council reached political agreement on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) late on Thursday night. The Commission has been quick to welcome the agreement, stating that the DMA...

The Commission and Chinese authorities agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding in 2012 describing potential exchanges of views and experiences with respect to competition and anti-monopoly law.

On 8 April 2016, the Commission announced that it had adopted a decision to relieve Deutsche Bahn of its obligation to comply with a commitments decision made binding on the company in December 2013.

On 20 April 2016, the European Commission confirmed it issued a Statement of Objections ("SO") to Google concerning the imposition of restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators.

The General Court of the European Union recently handed down judgments partially annulling the European Commission’s decision of 28 January 2009 in the marine hoses cartel case following appeals by Parker ITR, Trelleborg Industrie, and Manuli Rubber Industries.

On 29 March 2012, the General Court dismissed in their entirety two appeals brought against the European Commission decision which found that Telefónica had abused its dominant position in the market for access to broadband internet in Spain by engaging in a margin squeeze.

On 26 October 2017, the General Court dismissed an appeal by Marine Harvest against a € 20 million fine imposed on it by the Commission for implementing its acquisition of sole control over Morpol ...

Under the EU commitment procedure set out in Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003, companies may offer commitments to address the competition concerns identified by the European Commission