Work Area: Vertical Restraints

The EU General Court’s finding that a skating union’s policy of banning athletes for competing in unauthorised events infringed competition law is marred by an unclear by-object analysis, an advocate general has said.

15 December 2022

A trade association that counts Amazon, IKEA and Carrefour as members has asked the European Commission to take “decisive action” against unnamed consumer goods manufacturers for allegedly imposing anticompetitive territorial supply restrictions.

12 December 2022

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Through political initiatives like the Digital Single Market, the European Commission seeks to improve access to cross-border e-commerce for consumers and businesses throughout the European Union.

25 November 2022

The Czech Republic’s Office for the Protection of Competition has fined an electronic appliances distributor for obstructing a dawn raid after a company executive refused to hand over his phone and another deleted content from his mobile and laptop.

11 November 2022

France’s Competition Authority has levied an €81 million fine on the country's largest contact lens manufacturer for unlawfully restricting online sales of its products.

09 November 2022

Information exchanges between a supplier and its downstream competitors are still assumed to create efficiencies, despite the recent removal of certain safeguards for such behaviour in the EU’s Vertical Block Exemption Regulation, a European Commission official has said.

01 November 2022

Spain’s antitrust enforcer is investigating if Booking.com imposed unlawful exclusivity clauses and unfair trading conditions on hotels, joining a long list of competition authorities that have scrutinised the platform’s contractual restrictions.

18 October 2022

Korea’s competition watchdog has sanctioned a recycling trade association for dictating what its members could charge for disposing of domestic food waste.

10 October 2022

An appellate court in Paris has slashed a landmark €1.1 billion fine levied against Apple by France’s Competition Authority, reducing the penalty to €371.6 million because the agency used the wrong calculation method and failed to substantiate price-fixing allegations.

07 October 2022

Canada’s Federal Court has ordered Amazon purchasers to arbitrate their claims that the online retailer’s “fair pricing” policy amounts to price-fixing.

05 October 2022