The Italian Government has recently introduced an extensive reform of the penalty system on violations of EU Regulations on plant protection products ("PPPs").

The difference in treatment between finance leases and operating leases has, for years, stood out as an inconsistent fillip of established accounting practice.

During his confirmation hearing before the European Parliament on 30 September 2014, the EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner-designate Vytenis Andriukatis announced that he will aim to overcome obstacles on finding conclusive criteria for endocrine disrupting substances (EDCs) under the biocides and pesticides legislation.

The Swiss Competition Authority has just closed an investigation into an abuse of dominance investigation into Cisco.

We thought we would start 2015 with some of the highlights and lessons learned from 2014

We wrote a few weeks back about the criminal trial of three executives accused of fixing prices for water storage tanks that has been taking place in London.

OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is an intergovernmental body that represents 13 major oil producing nations.

In order to discharge its duty as the enforcer of the EU's competition rules, the European Commission has a range of investigative powers.

A reminder this week that antitrust enforcement is not concerned only or even primarily with big companies and national or international markets.

The call for information found that online reviews are trusted by consumers and are an important source of information for buying decisions.

Companies and their directors are subject to a panoply of legal requirements under the Companies Act 2006 and other legislation.

The Financial Conduct Authority has successfully prosecuted two individuals for insider dealing, one for passing on inside information he acquired at work and the other for trading on the basis...

For nearly 30 years we have been scratching our heads over the vexed question of whether guaranteed minimum pensions (GMPs) need to be equalised – and the even more vexed question of how this might be done

A new article written by Employment Partner Stefan Nerinckx has just been published in Forum, the legal journal of the prestigious European Academy of Law...

Today, news broke that baby Arthur Morgan is the first to receive ground-breaking gene therapy treatment Zolgensma®, reimbursed by the NHS.

We see that Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain's ambassador to the EU, is reported as saying that it could take until the mid-2020s to get a UK-EU trade deal in place.

The UT observed that the question of whether a person is trading is essentially a question of fact, and that it should not interfere unless compelled to do so.

On 14 January 2016, vice president of Content Delivery Architecture at Netflix, David Fullagar, announced that "while the company would continue to break down borders in order to offer content to the broadest possible audience...

Ofcom has recently published a final statement in relation to current market power in the UK broadcast transmission services market.

This week Sky and BT paid over £5bn to the Premier League for its live domestic broadcasting rights in a three year deal.