Topic: Behavioural remedies

A New Zealand lawmaker has suggested exempting members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from the country’s foreign investment law to stimulate growth in the grocery sector, as he slammed the government’s response to the cost of living crisis.

20 July 2022

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is challenging a deal between two railway equipment providers over competition concerns centred on one tender related to the country’s High Speed 2 rail network, as the EU accepted a divestment remedy to clear the same merger.

19 July 2022

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has approved the acquisition of RT-Mart by the country’s largest supermarket chain after imposing several behavioural conditions on the deal to curb potential price increases.

19 July 2022

A first-instance court was wrong to force the Dutch competition enforcer to reinvestigate a merger between educational materials providers Sanoma Learning and Iddink after previously approving the deal with commitments, an appeals tribunal has said.

15 July 2022

South Africa’s antitrust enforcer is urging Google to allow rivals to compete more easily for prominence on its search engine and has proposed capping application store commission fees after two years of a digital markets inquiry.

15 July 2022

Amazon’s promise to make significant changes to its European business model could allow the European Commission to “test the effectiveness” of the Digital Markets Act before the rules come into effect, local lawyers have said.

14 July 2022

The UK has conditionally cleared the takeover of a domestic defence company after accepting undertakings designed to protect intellectual property and sensitive capabilities, while also including a slate of public interest promises.

07 July 2022

The European Commission has said it will need at least 150 staff members to enforce the new Digital Markets Act, nearly double the amount it initially anticipated when the law was proposed two years ago.

05 July 2022

The EU has moved closer to implementing new rules to curb anticompetitive subsidies from governments outside the bloc, with the European Parliament and European Council reaching a political agreement on the new regulation.

01 July 2022

The UK’s business secretary is leaning toward accepting proposed remedies to allay national security and competition concerns related to Parker Hannifin’s £6.3 billion purchase of rival aerospace component supplier Meggitt.

30 June 2022