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On 28 March 2012, the European Commission announced that it had fined 14 international groups of companies a total of € 169 million for participating in four distinct cartels.

European Commission approves new and amended Member State measures to support the economy...

The National Lottery holds a statutory monopoly on the market for public lotteries in Belgium.

On 19 November 2014, the Court of Appeal of Brussels ("the Court") issued an interim judgment ordering the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") to grant to a third party access to the inventory of the procedural file and limited access to the content of the procedural file in a merger case involving its competitors.

On 4 April 2019, the European Commission published a special report commissioned by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on how competition policy should evolve to continue promoting pro-consumer innovation in the digital age...

On 28 July 2014, the European Commission published an opinion on the disclosure of documents created in the course of a Commission investigation.

The Court of Justice of the European Union recently dismissed an appeal lodged by ENI against a judgment of the General Court which largely upheld the fines imposed by the European Commission for ENI's participation in the synthetic rubber cartel.

On 19 April 2012, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") issued its judgment in the appeal by Tomra against the General Court’s September 2010 judgment, ruling that Tomra’s appeal should be dismissed in its entirety.

The case concerns Maxima Latvija, a Latvian company which operates large shops and supermarkets in the retail food market in Latvia.

On 10 October 2014, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") submitted to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit its views as amicus curiae opposing the extraterritorial enforcement of US antitrust law in the LCD (liquid – crystal display) Panel cartel case.

Green certificates are virtual certificates delivered to producers of green energy.

On 22 May 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority published its first annual report covering a full year of the new Competition Authority's activity since its reform in September 2013.

On 22 January 2015, the Belgian Supreme Court (Hof van Cassatie / Cour de cassation) partially set aside a judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeal on the limitation period applicable to investigative measures in competition cases.

On November 2, 2012 Belgium’s Supreme Court decided that article 53 §1 of the Law on Unfair Trade Practices, which instituted a general prohibition on announcements of price reductions in the period preceding the period of Sales is contrary to the Directive (2005/29/EC) concerning unfair B2C commercial practices in the internal market