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On 25 March 2019, the European Commission published a notice concerning the main implications for EU competition law of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU in a no-deal scenario.

On 22 October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") issued its judgment in Case C 194/14 P AC-Treuhand v Commission concerning the liability of cartel facilitators under Article 101 TFEU.

The rulings of the ECJ settle longstanding and recurring questions on national courts' jurisdiction over private enforcement actions, and the findings of the Court should remain unchanged under the recast Brussels I bis Regulation.

An eventful year for competition law developments is drawing to a close. 2024 presented us with a new European Commission (EC), the landmark Illumina/ GRAIL judgment...

In two recent rulings, the Court of Justice and the General Court note the Commission';s failure to explain, in the decisions, its reasons for attributing the unlawful conduct of the subsidiaries to the parent companies.

The Belgian authorities' lawsuit closely followed the action for damages filed by the European Union against the members of the same cartel before another chamber of the same Court.

The Court of Appeal sided with the Commercial Court’s view that an expert report is required before making a final decision on the existence of an abuse.

This appeal from the General Court has provided Advocate General Kokott with an opportunity to give her opinion on two important practical issues...

On 20 January 2014, the European Commission published its decision of 17 October 2013 to reject a complaint by the airline operator Ryanair against the Dublin Airport Authority and Aer Lingus Group Plc.

On 29 October 2025, the European Commission released the results of its broad consultation on the Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

Nearly three years after relaxing the conditions for companies to seek informal guidance on the compatibility of their collaboration agreements with EU competition law, the European Commission...

The European Commission has imposed interim measures requiring Meta to restore third-party AI assistant access to WhatsApp's Business API, marking a significant enforcement action under Article 102 TFEU. This decision addresses Meta's alleged abuse of dominant position by excluding competing AI assistants while maintaining access only for its own Meta AI. The case raises critical questions about competition enforcement in emerging digital markets and whether early foreclosure effects can irreversibly streng

On 20 November 2014, the Supreme Court issued a preliminary ruling on the transitional regime between the former competition law of 2006 and the new Code of Economic Law of 2013, in the context of an appeal procedure before the Brussels Court of Appeal.

In 2021, the European Commission issued a proposal for a far-reaching new Regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the EU market (the "proposed Regulation").

On 2 May 2017, the BCA found that ABB, AEG, Siemens, Schneider and Sécheron had engaged in a cartel in the context of public tenders organised by government-owned railway network...

On 28 February 2013, Advocate General Kokott issued an opinion on a preliminary reference from the Austrian Cartel Court of Appeal.

The issue of the EU’s accession to the ECHR is almost as old as the EU itself.

In a recent case, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that, when the EU courts reduce a fine imposed by the Commission on a subsidiary for an infringement of the EU competition rules, they may also apply the same reduction to the fine imposed jointly and severally on the subsidiary’s parent.