On 24 November 2011, the General Court ("GC") handed down its judgment in EFIM v. Commission.

On 13 December 2013, the EU General Court ("GC") dismissed an appeal by Holding Slovenske elektrarne d.o.o. ("HSE") against a European Commission decision of 22 July 2009 imposing a fine of € 9.1 million on HSE for its participation in a cartel in the calcium carbide and magnesium reagents market.

On 6 November 2012, the European Court of Justice dismissed two appeals by Editions Odile Jacob against judgments of the General Court in the Lagardère/VUP case.

On 25 October 2011, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") delivered its ruling in the Soda Ash case (C-110/10P), upholding the appeal brought by Solvay SA against the European Commission's decisions and the judgments of the General Court ("GC") regarding alleged anti-competitive practices and abuse of a dominant position in the soda ash market.

On 27 June 2017, the European Commission announced that it has issued a decision imposing a record € 2.42 billion fine on Google for abusing its dominant position as an internet search engine ...

. According to ABB, the magnitude of the overcharge was to be determined by comparing ABB's profit margins for GIS during its participation in the cartel and thereafter.

Moreover, the ECJ indicated that even settled case-law of a Member State cannot achieve the clarity and precision needed to satisfy the requirement of legal certainty.

The second SO concerns the GE/LM Wind transaction. GE

On 24 March 2015, Advocate General Wahl (the "Advocate General") delivered his opinion in a case pitting Iron & Smith Kft against Unilever NV (Case C‑125/14).

Instead, a definition must be provided by considering the usual meaning of the word ‘shape' in everyday language.

In its judgment delivered on 1 March 2011 (Case C-604/10), the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") declined copyright protection for football fixture lists whose compilation is dictated by rules or constraints that leave no room for creative freedom.

On 13 December 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered three judgments on separate appeals brought against judgments of the General Court by Gascogne Sack Deutschland ("Gascogne"), Kendrion and Plasticos Españoles ...

They therefore requested that the investigations in relation to Alcogroup should be suspended. In its reply of 8 May 2015, the Commission rejected this request.

The Guidelines recall that the ECJ's judgment has made it clear that search engine operators process personal data and therefore qualify as data controllers.

On 26 November 2013, the Austrian Supreme Court upheld a decision of the national Cartel Court that had extended the scope of a search warrant given to the Austrian Federal Competition Authority.

On 21 April 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") published its enforcement priorities for the year 2015.

On 10 November 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority launched a public consultation on new draft leniency guidelines in order to revise the current 2007 leniency guidelines.

On 30 November 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority (Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit/Autorité Belge de la Concurrence – the "BCA") decided to open an in-depth investigation into the acquisition by Kinepolis of four cinema complexes currently owned by Utopia NV. Kinepolis had notified the proposed acquisition to the BCA on 12 October 2015.

The Belgian Constitutional Court dismissed the actions challenging the legality of the appeal available to companies against the use of documents and data seized during dawn raids.

In the framework of the European emission trading system, companies are required to cover all their emissions of greenhouse gasses by emission allowances.