Topic: Dawn raids

The rapid growth and use of cloud storage technology means dawn raids are now “far more complex”, making cooperation during a probe even more important, the European Commission’s cartel head has said.

28 September 2023

Greece’s Competition Commission has levied a €1 million fine on an unnamed individual, reportedly the owner of a premier league football club, for concealing evidence during a dawn raid.

21 September 2023

Competition agencies across Europe have raided Bosch based on concerns it may have abused its dominance by excluding its only rival in a nascent market.

18 September 2023

Hungary’s Competition Authority has raided Booking.com as part of an expedited market study into the online booking sector.

07 September 2023

Brazil’s antitrust watchdog has conducted 24 dawn raids across four cities following concerns that a wide-ranging cartel operating in the orthopaedic sector may have used lawsuits to force the government to pay for patient care, and then colluded to drive up the price of their products.

27 July 2023

Red Bull has challenged the European Commission’s search of its premises as part of a probe into possible antitrust infringements, arguing the enforcer had “insufficient” proof it violated competition rules.

25 July 2023

Parties can challenge the validity of dawn raids conducted by Greece’s Competition Commission prior to the authority issuing a final decision, a local court has said.

11 July 2023

A Ford joint venture had its rights breached when the Turkish Competition Authority raided its premises in 2009 without judicial sign-off, the country’s top constitutional court has held.

04 July 2023

Symrise has challenged the European Commission’s search of its premises as part of a cross-border fragrance cartel probe, arguing the enforcer did not have “reasonable grounds” for suspecting the company infringed competition law.

04 July 2023

The European Commission will impose cartel sanctions later this year in sectors that have never before been punished after advancing “a new targeted portfolio” of cases since 2021, a senior agency official has said.

29 June 2023