Work Area: Unilateral Conduct

China’s competition watchdog has fined a drugmaker nearly €3.7 million for hiking the price of a “gold standard” cancer treatment by 750% despite production costs allegedly remaining stable.

23 March 2023

Belgium’s Competition Authority has launched an abuse of dominance investigation into Proximus’s €20.5 million acquisition of a rival, less than a week after the European Court of Justice blessed such probes.

23 March 2023

Malaysia’s prime minister has committed to reviewing a monopoly in the country’s toll road payment market, drawing praise from the country’s antitrust authority despite the enforcer finding no competition concerns from the arrangement three years ago.

23 March 2023

Google has promised to make it easier for users to export their personal data across different platforms as it looks to end an abuse of dominance probe in Italy.

22 March 2023

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has certified a second class action claim from Justin Gutmann but rejected the secretary of state for transport’s request to intervene in both mass lawsuits seeking damages from three train operators for allegedly overcharging commuters.

22 March 2023

Some provisions of the EU’s Digital Markets Act will be directly enforceable in national courts both in standalone and follow-on claims, although future litigation will clarify the scope of that private enforcement, a European Commission official has said.

22 March 2023

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has banned Mastercard from putting forward a counterfactual defence against Walter Merricks’ class action that would have reduced the credit card company’s potential damages liability.

22 March 2023

Hong Kong’s Competition Commission is considering whether it can apply behavioural remedies approved by other competition enforcers against digital companies within the territory, a top official at the agency has said.

22 March 2023

Israel’s highest court has annulled a decision awarding €4 million in damages to a class of consumers that claimed they overpaid for cottage cheese after ruling a lower court failed to prove the prices were excessive.

21 March 2023

The European Commission has raided Red Bull as part of an investigation into possible anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominance.

21 March 2023