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.

There is a large consensus that the current Belgian Competition Act, which dates from 2006, needs some revision, at the very least on a number of procedural issues.

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.

The European Commission recently announced that it had imposed a fine of € 93.8 million on Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck.

On 12 November 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") handed down its judgment on the appeal brought by Guardian Industries Corp. and Guardian Europe Sàrl ("Guardian") against a General Court ("GC") judgment that dismissed in its entirety their appeal against a 2007 European Commission ("Commission") decision fining them for their participation in a cartel in the flat glass sector from 20 April 2004 to 22 February 2005. The ECJ partly set aside the GC’s judgment and reduced the

The GC upheld a broad interpretation of the exceptions under the Transparency Regulation by taking the competitive landscape and the nature of the information into consideration.

The European Commission rejected the complaint lodged by an association representing Italian car dealers, concerning the SEAT dealership contracts of Volkswagen Group Italia.

The General Court handed down two separate judgments concerning appeals against EC fines for participation in a cartel on the market of LCD panels.

On 6 March 2012, the EU General Court handed down three judgments relating to the appeals filed by FLS Past, FLSmidth and UPM-Kymmene Oyj against a European Commission decision fining them for their involvement in a cartel affecting the supply of industrial bags.

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...