Topic: Interim relief

New Caledonia’s antitrust watchdog has forced the territory’s incumbent telecommunications provider to open up its local network to a competitor seeking to establish international internet services.

15 July 2020

Switzerland’s Competition Commission has lifted interim measures that required a Swatch subsidiary to supply customers with watch parts, finding that competitors have entered the market since the obligation was imposed.

15 July 2020

Italy’s Competition Authority has raided the offices of three film and cinema associations as it considers interim measures to stop an alleged conspiracy restricting free movie screenings.

25 June 2020

Germany’s highest court has handed a major win to the country’s antitrust enforcer, ruling that Facebook must temporarily stop combining German users’ data on its platform with that gathered from its other services and third-party sites.

23 June 2020

Portugal’s Competition Authority has used interim measures for the first time in over a decade to order the Portuguese Professional Football League to stop enforcing no-poach agreements between its teams.

27 May 2020

Broadcom has offered to stop imposing semi-exclusivity requirements on purchasers of its chipsets, in the hope of resolving the European Commission’s abuse of dominance investigation.

27 April 2020

France’s Competition Authority has given Google three months to negotiate an acceptable fee to pay news publishers for displaying their content in its search results.

09 April 2020

Brazil’s competition authority has opened a probe and put interim measures on gym unions in Rio de Janeiro, over an anticompetitive clause in the gyms’ agreement with union members.

24 February 2020

Albania’s Competition Authority has imposed interim measures on three telecommunications companies for allegedly operating a cartel to increase mobile contract prices and minimum top-up value.

18 February 2020

The EU and the UK are set to discuss competition policy as part of post-Brexit negotiations, but their governments have different ideas about how competition rules should straddle the Channel.

05 February 2020