On 6 December 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") rendered a long-awaited judgment in case C-230/16 opposing Coty Germany ...

Webtaxi S.à.r.l. (previously ProCab) operates a taxi booking platform in Luxembourg, to which Webtaxi affiliates and taxis of competing undertakings (generally through payment of a monthly fee) are linked.

On 29 April 2021, following the release of the widely commented European Commission Guidance on art. 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR), the Luxembourg Competition Council published a statement...

What is the context? In 2015, the Conseil de la concurrence of Luxembourg (since renamed Autorité de la concurrence the "Authority") opened an investigation...

On 6 September 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered a highly anticipated judgment in case C-413/14 P, opposing the US-based microchip manufacturer Intel to the European Commission.

On 6 September 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") rendered a highly anticipated judgment in case C-413/14 P, opposing the US-based microchip manufacturer Intel to the European Commission.

What's new? The European Commission has published new guidance on the application of the referral mechanism set out in Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation...

On 22 December 2017, the Luxembourg Minister of Economics filed Bill of law 7228 ("Bill") aiming to amend the Law of 2 September 2011 on access to certain professions, as amended ("2011 Law") ...

The Luxembourg Competition Council ("Council") recently published a sector enquiry report onthe pharmacy market. In this report, the Council identifies a number of problems and potential solutions to address them.

In Decision n°2021-C-03 of 16 December 2021, the Council analysed whether the acquisition of a minority shareholding in the capital of a competitor constitutes a violation of competition rules.

Currently, Luxembourg is the only EU Member State without a national merger control regime.

Several decisions and judgments in the competition law field over the last quarter are noteworthy. A link to the 2020 Annual Report of the Competition Council is available here .

Such a regime would empower a national authority to scrutinise certain transactions as to their impact on competition in Luxembourg (whether this authority would be the Luxembourg Competition Council is not yet clear).

In a judgment of 1 June 2017, the Administrative Court confirmed the annulment by the Administrative Tribunal of Decision 2014-FO-07 of the Competition Council ("Council").

Driven by the growing influence of AI, data science, and digital technologies, national competition authorities are facing increasingly complex analytical and investigative challenges...

On 15 December 2020, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act ) ("Proposal") establishing criteria...

By Decision 208-FO-03 of 26 June 2018, the Competition Council ("Council") closed the file against Luxlait for the alleged imposition of resale prices ...

The Recommendation will remain applicable on a voluntary basis.

At EU level, the European Commission has published rules and guidance to further reduce the administrative burden for parties with respect to the merger...

On 16 September 2022, the Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market...