Spain targets General Motors

Friday, 17 May 2013

Spain’s National Competition Commission has opened an investigation of General Motors over alleged abuse of dominance in the market for car repairs.

Visa cuts EU inter-bank fees

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Visa Europe has agreed to lower its inter-bank fees for credit cards, settling the European Commission’s competition concerns.

Austria heavily sanctions grocery dominance abuse

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Austria’s Cartel Court has fined grocery company Rewe €20.8 million for abusing its dominant position. It is the second-highest fine issued by the court to date.

Tighten compliance to protect against "recklessness" accusations

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Companies need to create ever-more holistic compliance programmes as competition authorities take a harder line on information exchange. Katy Oglethorpe in London.

France fines Sanofi for stifling generic Plavix

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Drug maker Sanofi-Aventis has been told to pay a €40 million antitrust fine for allegedly persuading doctors and pharmacists to limit customer access to low-cost, generic rivals to its branded drug Plavix.

Complainant slams "preposterous" Google remedies

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

A rival search engine has heavily criticised Google’s proposed commitments to address the European Commission’s abuse of dominance concerns, suggesting that some of them may actually serve to decrease competition further and elevate Google’s monopoly power.

Italy again fines Telecom Italia for abuse of dominance

Monday, 13 May 2013

Telecom Italia has been fined more than €103 million for allegedly abusing its control of the country's fixed-line phone and broadband infrastructure less than a year after the company pledged commitments to end a separate monopolisation probe.

Italy closes Sky dominance probe

Friday, 10 May 2013

Italy’s Antitrust Authority has dropped its investigation of Sky Italia over alleged abuse of dominance in the purchase of football broadcasting rights.

Denmark fines appliance company for RPM

Thursday, 9 May 2013

Denmark’s Public Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime has fined BSH White Goods and two of its executives 1.52 million kroner (€203,000) for retail price maintenance.  

Feinstein looks ahead on pay-for-delay challenges

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

The director of the US Federal Trade Commission’s bureau of competition says that unless the Supreme Court finds that they are explicitly lawful, the FTC will continue to pursue pharmaceutical patent settlement cases where it feels the antitrust laws have been violated.

DG Comp sends Motorola SO over SEP misuse

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

The European Commission has sent a statement of objections to Motorola Mobility over alleged abuse of dominance for enforcing an injunction against Apple over its mobile phone standard-essential patents.

To amparo or not to amparo?

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Journal Feature • Issue: May 2013

Denmark sanctions Unilever RPM

Friday, 3 May 2013

Denmark’s Competition & Consumer Authority has fined Unilever for resale price maintenance on its ice cream products.

Carfax hit with US$50 million monopolisation lawsuit

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

A group of more than 120 independent used car dealers have filed a class action lawsuit claiming that Carfax, the main provider of certified vehicle history reports in the US, has attempted to illegally quash competition and monopolise the market.

Greece sanctions gas transmitter

Monday, 29 April 2013

Greece’s Competition Commission has fined the operator of Greece’s gas transmission system €4.3 million for abuse of dominance.