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On 5 February 2015, the Spanish Supreme Court issued a ruling which put an end to the controversy surrounding the interpretation of Article 63.1 of the Spanish Competition Act ("SCA")...

Spain's Supreme Court has voided a contract including an exclusive-supply clause in favour of Repsol, following a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union ....

On 16 April 2019, the UK Court of Appeal ruled that the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") had incorrectly refused to certify a major collective action brought against Mastercard.

On 4 April 2012, the English High Court issued an order in a pending private damages claim arising out of the gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) cartel case, further to which it has granted the claimants access to a limited set of materials produced by the defendants in leniency applications made before the European Commission.

On 19 August 2011, the UK Competition Commission ("CC") announced its provisional finding that Sky’s control over subscription pay-TV movie rights in the UK is restricting competition between pay-TV providers, leading to higher prices and reduced choice and innovation for subscribers.

On 26 January 2015, the English High Court issued a judgment dismissing lawsuits brought by a tobacco manufacturer.

On 19 April 2012, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced its decision to fine British Airways (BA) £ 58.5 million (around € 71 million) for anti-competitive practices.

AMP holds the rights for the distribution of virtually all Belgian newspapers and magazines.

In such circumstances, the Commission is required to provide a statement of reasons for this departure, including an explanation of the factors which enabled it to determine the gravity of the infringement and its duration...

In nine separate judgments handed down on 16 November 2011, the General Court ("GC") annulled the fine imposed by the Commission on one undertaking – Stempher BV ("Stempher") – and reduced the fine imposed on another – parent company Low & Bonar and its subsidiary Bonar Technical Fabrics ("Bonar").

On 27 June 2012, the EU's General Court ("GC") handed down its judgment on the appeal brought by French investment and industrial group Bolloré.

On 27 November 2017, the General Court ("GC") dismissed appeals brought by HeidelbergCement and Schwenk Zement against the European Commission's ...

On 22 March 2012, the General Court rendered a judgment confirming the European Commission’s power to request documents pre-dating a member state’s accession to the EU.

A subsequent appeal by Janssen-Cilag was dismissed by the French Supreme Court.

On 21 December 2011, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (the Court), sitting as the court of last instance, decided an important case concerning the right of a manufacturer of passenger vehicles to refuse to appoint a repairer applying to be admitted to its authorised repair network.

On 18 January 2012, the Local Court of Bonn (the Bonn Court) upheld the decision of the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) refusing Pfleiderer AG, a manufacturer of wood products and laminate flooring (and also a customer of all three participants of a former decor paper cartel) unlimited access to the FCO’s corresponding cartel file.

By decision of 15 May 2012, recently published, the German Federal Court of Justice ("the Court") annulled a decision of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart ("HRCS"), by which the latter had annulled a decision of the federal cartel office ("FCO") finding that a dominant water supplier had imposed excessive prices on its retail customers.

On 8 October 2015, the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice increased the fine against Spar, a food retailer, from € 3 million to € 30 million after upholding an earlier finding of illegal pricing agreements relating to dairy products.