In 2012 and 2013, the German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") had imposed a total fine of € 191 million on ThyssenKrupp for its participation in a cartel on the market for the sale of rail tracks and rail equipment.

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.

In 2006, the FCO had previously found that SodaStream (then known as Soda Club) had abused its dominant position on the German market for the refilling of gas cylinders.

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.

In a decision of 26 February 2013, the German Federal Court of Justice has confirmed the constitutionality of Section 81(4), 2nd sentence, of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition.

On 30 June 2013, the Eighth Amendment to the German Act Against Restraints of Competition has entered into force.

In 2008, the European Commission found that several undertakings, including ABB, had participated in a cartel in the gas-insulated switchgear market.

The ruling resulted from a civil claim for damages brought by the electricity company TenneT against the gas-insulated switchgear ("GIS") manufacturer ABB.

On 18 January 2015, a major reform of Polish competition law entered into force.

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.

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

In its judgment, the GC held that the Fining Guidelines lay down rules of conduct indicating the approach to be adopted by the Commission and that the Commission cannot depart from them...

The ECJ did not agree with this reasoning. By its judgment of 21 December 2016, the ECJ set aside the GC's judgments.

On 21 December 2017, the French Competition Authority ("FCA") applied for the first time Article L.464-2 V of the French Code of Commerce allowing for the imposition of fines in cases of procedural obstruction.

The Court rejected part of the claim for purchases which fell outside the period of MAN's involvement in the infringement.

On 16 April 2019, the European Parliament approved new rules on the protection of whistle-blowers (the "Directive").

On 16 September 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") ruled on a request for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice of England & Wales, Chancery Division, Intellectual Property.

In 2014, under the terms of a promotional offer, the defendant, a manufacturer of the diet product A-Vitalkost, offered pharmacies a 30% discount on a one-off direct order of 12 to 90 cans of the product.

On 23 October 2018, the English Court of Appeal issued a judgment in a licence dispute involving Standard Essential Patents pitting Unwired Planet, a US-based patent assertion entity, against Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company.