The Spanish Parliament definitively approved the Sustainable Economy Act (the 'SEA') (Ley de Economía Sostenible) on 15 February 2011.

An increase in M&A activity, coupled with more active regulators, means law firms in Spain and Portugal are expecting to increase their EU and competition-related revenue in 2015

On 17 May 2010, the Council of the Spanish national competition authority ("the CNC") adopted a resolution fining the Spanish Union of Iron Warehousemen ("the Union") € 650,000 for adopting several anticompetitive agreements.

The Investigations Division of Spain's antitrust authority, the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (the "CNC"), has brought proceedings against several companies in the Iberdrola Group for possible anti-competitive conduct.

On 14 May 2010, Spanish electric company Iberdrola filed a petition before the CNC demanding the removal of its Vice-President, Pilar Sánchez Núñez, from the proceedings that have been opened against Iberdrola and eight other electric companies.

Following on from our March 2011 article on exclusive sports broadcasting rights and the protection of so-called "crown jewels", a recent Spanish decision illustrates the ever-increasing relevance of competition law to the commercial exploitation of sports broadcasting rights.

The final steps to introduce a leniency programme in Spain were adopted yesterday.

On 24 January 2011 the CNC Council agreed on the termination by commitments of the investigation proceedings against the FNMT, accepting the commitments offered by FNMT.

28 February 2008 saw the birth of the Spanish competition authority's ("CNC") leniency programme, inspired mainly by the programme available at EU level.

On 7 November 2018, the Spanish Competition authority ("CNMC") published a set of provisional guidelines on the calculation of fines for infringements of competition law.

Spain's Audiencia Nacional, the court of appeal for antitrust cases, has annulled the Spanish Competition Commission's fine imposed on eight insurance companies allegedly involved in a price fixing cartel in Spain.

On 22 December 2017, the Spanish High Court (Audiencia Nacional) delivered a judgment annulling a 2015 decision adopted by the Spanish Competition Authori ...

On 3 December 2014, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down a judgment in the Pfizer dual-pricing case, ruling that special pricing legislation in Spain does not prevent the application of the competition laws.

On 15 September 2005, the Director of the CNC Investigations Divisions, and the Chairmen of the Spanish Post Office (Sociedad Estatal Correos y Telégrafos, S.A. – 'Correos') and the Professional Association of Mail Distribution and Handling Companies (Asociación Profesional de Empresas de Reparto y Manipulado de Correspondencia – 'ASEMPRE').

On 9 October 2009 the Investigations Division of the Spanish national competition authority, the CNC, issued an administrative order instructing officials to investigate possible anticompetitive practices.

On 4 October 2010, the Investigations Division of the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia ('CNC'), Spain's antitrust authority, commenced proceedings against Grupo Malla for possible restrictive practices.

On 16 February 2011, officials from the CNC conducted unannounced inspections at the premises of several major companies active in the manufacturing and distribution of polyurethane foam in Spain.

The Spanish Supreme Court ("Tribunal Supremo") has awarded damages to several confectioners which were affected by raw material price increases resulting from the activities of a cartel that took place in the sugar industry during the period 1995-1996.

On 26 September 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") handed down judgments dismissing in their entirety appeals lodged by the companies Alliance One International and Agroexpansión ("Alliance One"), as well as a cross-appeal lodged by the European Commission, against earlier judgments of the General Court ("GC") which largely upheld the Commission’s findings in its 2004 decision in the Spanish raw tobacco cartel case, while granting a small reduction of the fines imposed on A

Jones Day's series on private enforcement actions relating to antitrust matters in Europe turns to significant developments in Spain.