Work Area: Market Studies & Inquiries

Turkey’s Competition Authority has begun a wide-ranging sector inquiry to check for anticompetitive conduct in markets crucial to the country’s recovery from one of its worst-ever earthquakes.

21 March 2023

The Competition Commission of South Africa is set to probe concerns about the relationship between digital platforms and news publishers, including how new technologies such as ChatGPT use media content.

20 March 2023

Mexico’s telecommunications regulator has opened two market studies to assess how access to radio spectrum and the availability of distribution channels affects competition in the mobile telecoms sector.

17 March 2023

Canada’s Competition Bureau has called for several dozen amendments to the country’s antitrust law, as it looks to beef up its enforcement powers following a string of recent court losses.

16 March 2023

Austria’s antitrust watchdog has launched an inquiry into the online food delivery sector, warning that Uber Eats’ exit from the country four years ago created a highly-concentrated domestic market that warrants closer scrutiny.

15 March 2023

Apple has urged the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to quash a market investigation launched by the national antitrust watchdog last year, claiming the agency breached the procedural rules for initiating such an inquiry.

10 March 2023

Australia’s competition watchdog has launched another market study into digital platforms, as its latest probe examines the “expanding ecosystems” of Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.

08 March 2023

Kenya's antitrust enforcer will open a market inquiry to assess competition in the online food delivery market, which could result in regulatory and policy reform.

07 March 2023

The concentration of market power and intellectual property rights in the hands of a few agrochemical companies has restructured the seed market and likely disadvantaged new entrants and farmers, the US Department of Agriculture has said.

07 March 2023

A probe by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has warned that the domestic market for trade data used by banks and other investors is overly concentrated to the detriment of competition and consumers.

03 March 2023