On 17 January 2012, the French Supreme Court upheld a judgment of the Paris Court of Appeal of 27 January 2011, which had annulled fines of € 18 million and € 2 million imposed on 2004 on France Télécom and SFR, respectively, for an alleged margin squeeze on the market for fixed-to-mobile telephony services (see VBB on Competition Law, Volume 2011, No. 2, available at www.vbb.com).

The new legislation introduces class actions into the French legal system and more specifically into competition law matters.

On 19 November 2015, the Regional Court of Düsseldorf (the "Court") rejected a car insurer's claim for damages resulting from the European Commission's decision in the car glass cartel case.

On 25 June 2013, the German Federal Cartel Office published new fining guidelines replacing the FCO’s previously applicable guidelines.

In the present case, the patents were neither standard essential nor non-avoidable.

On 21 August 2025, the European Union and the United States published a Joint Statement (JS) "on a United States-European framework on an agreement on reciprocal...

On 3 September 2012, the Italian Administrative Tribunal for Lazio ("Tribunale Amministrativo di Lazio", the "Tribunal") annulled an earlier decision of the Italian Competition Authority ("Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato", the "Authority") which had fined pharmaceutical group Pfizer € 10.6 million for abuse of dominance in the market for medicines based on the active substance latanoprost for the treatment of glaucoma (see VBB on Competition Law, Volume 2012, No. 1, available at

In certain respects, however, transposition was not deemed necessary.

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 24 May 2012, it was announced that the Competition Commission of Switzerland ("COMCO") has fined BMW around € 130 million.

On 26 October 2011, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced that it was consulting on two new draft guidance documents setting out its general approach to penalties as well as to applications for leniency in competition cases.

The UK Supreme Court delivered its judgment on an appeal challenging a Court of Appeal decision, finding that damages actions had been brought in time.

Of immediate relevance for third countries is the APF's assault against "foreign governments' free-riding off American investment in innovation".

The aim of the Draft Bill is to protect small companies which are in a relationship of economic dependence vis-à-vis bigger companies.

Unlike the President, the Court of Appeal found no trade mark violation on any of the grounds relied on by InBev.

On 15 June 2017, the Constitutional Court delivered a judgment on the guarantee scheme granted by Belgium to three financial cooperatives of the ARCO group.

Collective management organisations ("CMOs") represent the combined copyrights of their members, with one society typically managing a given right or set of rights for all artists in a given country...

On 18 October 2018, the General Court upheld an appeal lodged by the GEA group against the European Commission's readopted decision in the heat stabilisers cartel case and annulled the Commission's decision ...

On 25 March 2019, the European Commission ("Commission") announced its decision to fine Nike € 12,555,000 for limiting the ability of licensees to sell licensed merchandising products to other EEA countries.

On 9 April 2019, the General Court dismissed the appeal lodged by Qualcomm against the Commission's decision of 31 March 2017 requesting information in the context of an investigation against Qualcomm ...