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The European Commission has published draft merger guidelines that consolidate and significantly update its analytical framework for assessing mergers, introducing new considerations for innovation, privacy, sustainability, resilience, and labor markets.

Rebates are commonly used by companies to maximize sales. From an antitrust law perspective, such discount schemes are generally not problematic.

Norwegian Supreme Court affirms annulment of the competition authority's merger decision prohibiting the acquisition of a used car sales online portal by online marketplace owner Schibsted...

With EU Member States adopting different strategies to address the COVID-19 outbreak, this update considers the guidance issued by the European Commission (the "Commission") on competition law enforcement in the current crisis.

On 6 January 2004 the European Court of Justice ("<B>ECJ</B>") dismissed the appeal by the European Commission<SUP>1</SUP> and others against the Court of First Instance’s ("<B>CFI</B>") decision<SUP>2</SUP> to annul the Commission’s <I>Bayer/Adalat </I>decision.

The EU General Court's landmark Booking/Etraveli judgment validates the European Commission's power to block digital mergers based on entrenchment theories, even without horizontal overlaps or significant market share increases. This watershed ruling arrives alongside new Article 102 Guidelines and draft Merger Guidelines that reshape how dominant platforms must justify acquisitions and demonstrate competitive benefits in ecosystem markets.

In its priorities note for 2023, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") listed the pharmaceutical and health care sector as one of it major interests.

In this article, we give a factual overview of significant case developments at EU level in the past month, and then provide a more detailed analysis of important substantive or procedural developments...

The EU Industrial Accelerator Act IAA will significantly reshape deal structuring and operations in strategic sectors, requiring early assessment of foreign investment constraints, governance and IP arrangements...

The start of the year has seen antitrust authorities in Europe consider new cases against familiar foes. A new set of concerns have been raised in respect of the way in which Microsoft packages its web browser Internet Explorer with its dominant Windows PC operating system.

The Belgian rules on merger control are included in Book IV "Protection of competition" of the Belgian Code of Economic Law and the Royal Decree of 30 August 2013 relative to...

On 11 February 2025, the European Commission launched a call for evidence to seek stakeholders' views on the Geo-Blocking Regulation (EU) 2018/302 to assess its effectiveness.

For the past five years there has been an ongoing battle between the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") and the legislator about the BCA's competence...

The contested rebate scheme offered by Post Danmark, the Danish postal incumbent, applied incremental discounts on a scale from 6% to 16% depending on volumes purchased, which were standardised across all customers.

2023 began with the end of Jacques Steenbergen's mandate as president of the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) on 31 January 2023, after 15 years as the head of the BCA. Unfortunately...

Advocate General Wathelet’s disappointing Opinion in Huawei Technologies sets out a test that is divorced from reality.

The European Commission has adopted its first comprehensive Guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominance under Article 102 TFEU, marking a significant evolution in EU competition law enforcement. Following a three-year consultation process, these Guidelines codify evolving case law while addressing concerns about enforcement thresholds and introducing notable changes including the reintroduction of a 40% market share benchmark, refined evidentiary presumptions, and expanded guidance on digital markets and

On 16 March 2023, the Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a preliminary ruling in case C-449/21, ...