Work Area: Unilateral Conduct

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called for legally binding codes of conduct to address anticompetitive self-preferencing, tying, exclusivity and data advantages in the digital economy.

11 November 2022

Azerbaijan’s competition authority has fined a major national buckwheat producer for abusing its dominance in a decision that one local lawyer said reflects “serious changes” in the country’s antitrust enforcement following the appointment of a new agency head last December.

11 November 2022

Indonesia’s antitrust watchdog has partnered with the attorney general’s office to recover fines that more than 300 companies have refused to pay for competition law violations over the past decade.

08 November 2022

Competition law can address inequality issues by ensuring corporate power does not deprive businesses of fair opportunities or leave consumers facing unnecessarily high prices, a former judge at South Africa’s Competition Appeal Court has said.

03 November 2022

An Italian administrative court has suspended Amazon’s appeal against the national antitrust watchdog’s €1.13 billion abuse of dominance sanction pending a separate jurisdictional challenge brought by the technology giant to the European Court of Justice.

31 October 2022

Google has revealed that the European Commission is investigating its Play Store rules over abuse of dominance concerns after the UK’s antitrust authority confirmed its own probe into the same conduct earlier this year.

28 October 2022

Turkey’s antitrust watchdog has fined Meta €18.6 million after finding the technology company abused its dominance by merging data collected through WhatsApp with its Facebook social media platform.

26 October 2022

The Competition Commission of India has provisionally fined Google for the second time in a week, while also ordering the company to allow third-party payment providers on its application store.

26 October 2022

Spain’s antitrust watchdog has fined Merck €38.9 million for abusing its dominant position in the market for a type of contraceptive, finding the company unlawfully delayed the entry of a competing product through deceptive patent litigation.

25 October 2022

Malaysia’s Competition Commission has asked the region’s leading ecommerce platform Shopee Mobile Malaysia to respond to complaints from consumers and merchants about its delivery services.

25 October 2022