On 28 July 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") handed down a judgment addressing questions referred to it by the Danish Supreme Court (the "Referring Court") with respect to the rules governing the repackaging of parallel-traded pharmaceuticals.

The Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament voted on 17 December 2013 the trade mark package which the European Commission had tabled on 27 March 2013

On 16 November 2017, the Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office reversed the EUIPO examiner's refusal to register a portrait photograph of the Dutch model Maartje Verhoef as an EUTM for a large number of products and services.

The FCA found that these manufacturers had, for each of these markets, coordinated their commercial policy towards large retail chains as well as coordinated their price increases from 2003 to 2006.

The French Supreme Court has recently ruled that national competition authorities are allowed to take enforcement actions against companies found to be in breach of Article 101 TFEU.

On 31 August 2012, the Paris Court of Appeal handed down two orders confirming the legality of a search warrant and antitrust inspections carried out in 2009 by the French competition authority at the premises of Amaury, a publisher of daily newspapers (including the sports daily L’Equipe).

On 15 September 2011, the Higher Social Court in Darmstadt gave judgment on an annulment action brought by a statutory sickness fund against a request for information issued by the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO).

On 3 July 2012, Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, signed a Commencement Order which brought into force the provisions of the Competition (Amendment) Act 2012 ("the Act").

The case arose out of a dawn raid conducted by the CCPC in May 2015 on the premises of Irish Cement Limited, located in Louth, Ireland.

On 24 March 2016, the Industry Appeals Tribunal (the "Tribunal"), the highest Dutch administrative appeal court in competition law matters, upheld a judgment of a lower court...

On 5 October 2012, President of The Hague District Court ruled in interim proceedings that the Dutch Competition Authority ("NMa") cannot order third parties to provide information incriminating undertakings against which the NMa has insufficient information to initiate competition law infringement proceedings.

The Office of Fair Trading closed its hotel online booking investigation with no finding of infringement.

Peter Snee, Managing Director of Franklin Hodge Industries, was convicted for his role in the fixing of prices on the market for water-storage tanks.

On 5 April 2012, the Belgian Competition Council imposed a fine of € 75,000 on Belgian telecoms company Belgacom for providing an incomplete response to a request for information in the context of the merger review of Belgacom’s acquisition of The Phone House.

On 9 July 2015, the Brussels Court of Appeal held that antitrust dawn raids carried out in 2006 at the premises of cargo handlers by the former Belgian Competition Council (now the Belgian Competition Authority) were illegal.

On 3 October 2011, the European Ombudsman, tasked with responding to complaints of maladministration by EU institutions or officials, published a decision on a complaint about the European Commission's refusal to provide access to its internal manual of antitrust procedure and competition law for cases involving the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU under Regulation 1/2003 (the so-called "ManProc").

The Commission will analyse the outcome of the survey before deciding whether any legislative or procedural changes are needed.

A DG Comp public consultation is anticipated on the draft Guidelines.

The guidelines offer potential solutions and give practical suggestions as to how Google’s privacy policy could satisfy EU data protection requirements.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal quashed the decision of the Office of Fair Trading (now the Competition and Markets Authority) in the online hotel booking case.