The European Commission has determined that Google violated the Digital Markets Act through anti-competitive practices in its Search and Play services. The investigation revealed systematic preferential treatment...

Hendrik Viaene has contributed an extensive chapter relating to the law in Belgium.

With three cases recently closed, Google has been in the crosshairs of European Union Competition Commissioner Vestager

In a decision of 29 November 2010, the Belgian Competition Council amended a condition that was imposed in 2003 on cable network operator Telenet’s acquisition of pay-TV provider Canal+.

The Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) has sanctioned Securitas, G4S and Seris for various malpractices in the private security sector. The reasons include price-fixing...

The case dates back to May 2017, when the BCA's Competition Prosecutor's Office (Auditorat / Auditoraat) first opened an investigation and carried out dawn raids.

With its recent imposition of a record 4.3 billion EUR fine against Google for abuse of dominant position

In advance of the next edition of Cartel Intel, Brussels Partner Daniel Vowden sat down with Ashley Brickles, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, to discuss the changed nature of ...

In a landmark judgment, the European Court of Justice have overturned the European Commission's (EC) new approach to referrals under Article 22.

According to British Airways, by raising a plea of its own motion, the GC had grounds to go beyond the form of order set out in British Airways' application for annulment, in particular as it related to a ground...

The Vertical Agreements Block Exemption Regulation ("VABER") will expire on 31 May 2022. As a result, the European Commission has formally commenced its evaluation of the VABER in order to inform

On 28 November 2024, the European Commission (EC) fined French fashion house Pierre Cardin and one of its licensees – Ahlers Group – EUR 5.7 million for restricting...

We're pleased to share our latest contribution to the CPI Antitrust Chronicle, authored by Kyriakos Fountoukakos and Kian O'Connell.

Since the introduction of the European Commission's (EC) settlement procedure in 2008, just over one in five of all its settlement cases have involved at least one party dropping out of the settlement

For the third consecutive year, the ICLG has published an article by Partners Frédéric Louis, Anne Vallery and Cormac O'Daly and Senior Associate Édouard Bruc...

The European Commission has issued Statements of Objections to construction chemicals manufacturers in France, Germany and Spain, along with three national trade associations, over suspected price coordination. The preliminary assessment suggests manufacturers coordinated future price increases for chemical additives and admixtures between 2021 and 2022 in response to rising raw material costs following the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war against Ukraine.