On 15 February 2012, the EU’s Official Journal published Commission Regulation 125/2012, which adds eight substances to the REACH chemical Regulation's Annex XIV "authorisation" list. The addition of these eight substances brings the number of substances listed in Annex XIV to 22.

On 15 November 2012, Advocate General Mengozzi of the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered his opinion in a case between the holder of a registered Community trade mark and the proprietor of an allegedly infringing later Community trade mark.

On 12 March 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") ruled on a question referred to it by the High Court of Justice (England and Wales)...

On 15 December 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") handed down a judgment in Case C-119/10 between Frisdranken Winters BV ("Winters") and Red Bull GmbH ("Red Bull") regarding the protection of the latter’s famous trade mark RED BULL.

The European Commission adopted an opinion providing guidance on law enforcement measures that may interfere with the right to protection of personal data.

In a decision published on 5 April 2012, the European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR"), dismissed Bouygues Telecom's claims that French competition proceedings infringed its fundamental rights.

On 23 January 2018, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that there might be an abuse under competition law if a company asks a dependent company for wedding rebates that are not objectively justified.

By decision of 21 June 2012, the Regional Court of Bonn ("the Court") upheld a decision by the Local Court of Bonn approving the seizure by the German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") of internal audit documents that had been prepared by external counsel at the premises of the appellant.

The automotive repair shop had acted as an authorised repairer for the manufacturer concerned for several years before the manufacturer decided to rearrange its service network.

On 25 July 2012, the Court of First Instance of Amsterdam (the "Court") rejected a claim brought by three former repairers of KIA Nederland BV ("KIA Nederland"), ruling that the distribution system in question did not infringe the competition rules.

The case ended up with the Court which first examined if Belgian courts had jurisdiction over Skype.

On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its judgment concerning energy labels in a case involving Dyson and BSH (ECJ, 25 July 2018, Case C-632/16, Dyson Ltd and Dyson BV v. BSH Home Appliances NV).

The National Lottery holds a statutory monopoly on the market for public lotteries in Belgium.

On 22 March 2018, the Belgian Supreme Court dismissed an appeal against an interim judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeal on the damages claim introduced by the European Commission.

On 19 November 2014, the Court of Appeal of Brussels ("the Court") issued an interim judgment ordering the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") to grant to a third party access to the inventory of the procedural file and limited access to the content of the procedural file in a merger case involving its competitors.

The jurisdiction of the BIBC will be based on the consent of all parties involved.

On 4 April 2019, the European Commission published a special report commissioned by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on how competition policy should evolve to continue promoting pro-consumer innovation in the digital age...

On 28 July 2014, the European Commission published an opinion on the disclosure of documents created in the course of a Commission investigation.

The Court of Justice of the European Union recently dismissed an appeal lodged by ENI against a judgment of the General Court which largely upheld the fines imposed by the European Commission for ENI's participation in the synthetic rubber cartel.

On 19 April 2012, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") issued its judgment in the appeal by Tomra against the General Court’s September 2010 judgment, ruling that Tomra’s appeal should be dismissed in its entirety.