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On 20 December 2011, the Finnish Market Court imposed a fine of € 3 million on Iittala Group Oy Ab, a Finnish design company specialising in houseware goods, for having implemented resale price restrictions infringing Finnish competition law.

First, the new procedure on structural injunctions in the retail sector was found to be in breach of both the right of property and the freedom to pursue commercial activities.

The Versailles Court of Appeal upheld the global seizure by the French Competition Authority of electronic mailboxes during dawn raids.

The French Competition Authority announced that Nespresso has offered commitments to end an investigation into allegedly abusive and exclusive practices.

On 18 December 2017, the Paris Tribunal of Commerce condemned Orange (formerly known as ‘France Telecom') to pay € 346 million to Digicel (formerly ‘Bouygues Telecom Caraïbe') ...

On 5 October 2012, details were published concerning a 5 September 2012 decision by the German Federal Cartel Office prohibiting a proposed merger between two hospitals in Worms.

By judgment of 11 December 2012, recently published, the German Federal Court of Justice annulled the judgment of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf of 7 December 2011.

On 12 June 2018, the German Federal Court of Justice delivered a highly anticipated judgment that clarified that the suspension of the limitation period for cartel damages claims also applies to claims that arose ...

In a judgment of 10 August 2011, the text of which has recently become available, the German Federal Court of Justice (the "Court") rejected an appeal on points of law brought by the public prosecutor against a judgment of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (see VBB on Competition Law, Volume 2010, No. 4, available at www.vbb.com) acquitting an industrial property insurance corporation, HDI-Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG ("HDI-Gerling"), from liability for the participation of its legal

The Labour Court of Essen rejected all damages claims against the former Executive Board Member and Managing Director of a ThyssenKrupp subsidiary.

In 2014, the FCO found that, whilst not being dominant, EDEKA's market position on the procurement market in the food retail sector was strong enough for its suppliers to be economically dependent on EDEKA.

According to a press release of 18 March 2011, the German Federal Cartel Office has prohibited the plans of broadcasting groups RTL and Pro7Sat1 to form a joint venture for the creation and operation of an online video platform.

On 17 December 2013, the Regional Court of Düsseldorf dismissed a damages claim of approximately € 131 million brought by the Belgian company CDC Cartel Damages Claims SA ("CDC") against cement manufacturers Cemex Deutschland AG, Dyckerhoff AG, Lafarge Zement GmbH, Schwenk Zement KG, HeidelbergCement AG and Holcim Deutschland AG.

On 28 January 2015, the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA") fined ten ferry services operators, active in the Gulf of Naples and Salerno, for their failure to respect commitments agreed on in a previous investigation.

With two judgements of 13 June 2013 and 11 July 2013, the Rotterdam District Court annulled the decisions of the Dutch competition authority in a constructions cartel and a ship waste cartel.

In a judgement of 23 April 2013, published on 13 June 2013, the Court of Appeal of The Hague held that Difotrust, an IT firm specialised in digital forensic research, should reveal information relating to possible cartel infringers.

In June 2013, the District Court annulled two decisions of the DCA regarding, respectively, a cartel in the construction business and a cartel in the ship waste sector.

In a press release of 21 November 2013, the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) announced that it would terminate its investigation into a possible price-fixing cartel on the market of mobile telecommunications and accept binding commitments from the three major mobile providers in the Netherlands, T-Mobile, KPN and Vodafone.