The Court of Justice of the European Union recently dismissed appeals brought by five Belgian removal companies against judgments of the General Court which largely upheld the European Commission’s 2008 decision fining the companies for their participation in the international removal services cartel case.

In separate judgments delivered on 25 October 2011, the EU General Court ("GC") annulled € 9.9 million of fines previously imposed by the Commission on the Spanish undertaking Aragonesas and its parent company Uralita for their alleged participation in a cartel on the sodium chlorate market.

The air travel tax is an excise duty which airline companies operating in Ireland must pay in respect of every passenger departing on an aircraft from an airport situated in Ireland.

On 3 October 2011, the European Ombudsman, tasked with responding to complaints of maladministration by EU institutions or officials, published a decision on a complaint about the European Commission's refusal to provide access to its internal manual of antitrust procedure and competition law for cases involving the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU under Regulation 1/2003 (the so-called "ManProc").

The Commission will analyse the outcome of the survey before deciding whether any legislative or procedural changes are needed.

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.

This report (produced for the European Commission by Europe Economics) follows the EC's investigations into potential competition law infringements in syndicated lending.

On 28 November 2014, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") announced the adoption of an ethical charter applicable to its assessors.

On 27 January 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority published a notice on the handling of requests for an informal opinion by the President of the BCA.

The Batopin project consists in restructuring the cash distribution network of the four largest commercial banks in the country, namely Belfius, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING and KBC.

The European Commission has introduced comprehensive Guidelines on Article 102 TFEU addressing abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings. These Guidelines establish a three-stage assessment framework covering market dominance determination, competitive distortion analysis, and objective justification examination. The framework provides detailed analytical approaches for various forms of exclusionary conduct including predatory pricing, margin squeeze, exclusive dealing, and self-preferencing, wh

Miranda Cole and Francesco Salis from our Brussels office are the authors of a chapter on the evolving view of data in the application of competition law.

On 9 June 2016, the Commission published the non-confidential version of its decision in its state aid investigation into Fiat's tax arrangements in Luxembourg.

In the course of its antitrust investigations, Commission officials may conduct surprise inspections of corporate premises (commonly known as "dawn raids").

To reach this conclusion, the ECJ examined the conduct concerned in its legal and economic context.

In light of these circumstances, the ECJ ruled that the grant of such preferential access to a public infrastructure in favour of black cabs did not involve a transfer of state resources.

EU antitrust law prohibits certain vertical agreements if the harm to competition outweighs the benefits. To provide businesses with some legal certainty about that analysis, the Vertical Block...