Organisation: European Commission

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Since the European Commission's milestone Google Shopping decision, self-preferencing theories of harm have taken a key role in European competition enforcement in digital markets.

25 November 2022

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Through political initiatives like the Digital Single Market, the European Commission seeks to improve access to cross-border e-commerce for consumers and businesses throughout the European Union.

25 November 2022

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To keep up in the digital and technology sectors, the European Commission plans to enact both the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act in the coming year.

25 November 2022

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Recent developments in European merger control policy concerning data and data protection have seen the continent's competition regulators put key ideas regarding data-intensive markets into practice.

25 November 2022

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As part of its ‘Digital Agenda for Europe’, the European Commission plans to create safe and secure digital services and markets, prioritising areas such as digital sovereignty, artificial intelligence and semiconductors.

25 November 2022

The EU General Court has ordered German steel producer WDI to pay the European Commission overdue interest on a decade-old cartel fine, ruling that its earlier decision to annul and then reimpose the company’s penalty does not constitute a new sanction.

23 November 2022

The EU’s highest court has clarified that the disclosure of relevant evidence in antitrust damages claims applies to both existing and non-existing documents that a party may need to create from scratch.

10 November 2022

The European Commission sees “no reason” to impose a different standard of merger control on the technology sector, the agency’s director of competition policy and strategy has said.

10 November 2022

The EU’s General Court has confirmed the European Commission’s re-adopted sanctions on four concrete rebar cartelists after the agency’s previous decisions were annulled twice, ruling the decades-long case has not exceeded the principle of reasonable duration.

09 November 2022

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Microsoft’s $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, echoing the foreclosure concerns of the UK’s antitrust enforcer.

08 November 2022