Antitrust & Merger Control

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• Amazon is being fined €4m for unbalanced clauses in the contracts with its marketplace's third-party vendors.

  Article

  Submitted: 09 September 2019

  On September 02, 2019, the Paris Commercial Court imposed a civil fine of €4m on Amazon due to the significant imbalance resulting from 7 clauses in the contract concluded with third-party vendors on its amazon.fr platform. Amazon is also ordered to amend these clauses.

• Revision of the provisions of the French Commercial Code relating to tariff transparency and restrictive practices of competition

  Article

  Submitted: 29 April 2019

  On Thursday 25 April the Government published two ordinances in the Official Journal pursuant to the law of 30 October 2018 on the balance of trade relations in the agricultural and food sector and healthy, sustainable and accessible food for all (Egalim law).

• Commission releases report on competition policy in the digital era

  Article

  Submitted: 05 April 2019

  European Commission’s competition policy report focuses on platforms, data and dominance.

• German competition regulator restricts Facebook data use

  Blog Post

  Submitted: 15 February 2019

  The Bundeskartellamt found Facebook's merging of user data from multiple sources to be both anti-competitive and in breach of the GDPR.

• SABAM found to have abused its position by the Brussels Commercial Court

  Article

  Submitted: 17 July 2018

  On 12 April 2018, the President of the Dutch-speaking Brussels Commercial Court (the Court) ruled that SABAM - the Belgian copyright collecting society - was abusing its dominant position. SABAM was subsequently ordered to cease and desist its abuse.

• Google’s pricey penalty - search engine fined a record €2.42bn by European Commission for favouring its own shopping comparison tool

  Article

  Submitted: 30 June 2017

  ​The European Commission has imposed a record €2.42bn fine on Google for abusing its dominant position in the search engine market.

• European Commission launches anonymous tool for whistleblowers

  Article

  Submitted: 29 March 2017

  ​The new tool allows individuals to provide the European Commission with information on antitrust violations while maintaining their anonymity.

• Most Favoured Nation clauses in an online context

  Article

  Submitted: 05 January 2017

  ​In a decision of 07 November 2016, the Belgian Competition Authority has closed its investigation against real estate website operator Immoweb regarding the “Most Favoured Nation” clauses in its contracts with developers of software for real estate agencies.

• Pfizer fined a record amount for abuse of dominant position involving excessive pricing

  Article

  Submitted: 08 December 2016

  The CMA has imposed a record £82.4m fine on Pfizer and a £5.2m fine on Flynn Pharma after finding that both abused a dominant position.

• Dutch competition authority takes a closer look at online video platforms

  Article

  Submitted: 29 September 2016

  The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets launches a market study into online platforms that stream videos and movies, such as YouTube and Facebook or Dutch platforms such as NLziet or Dumpert.

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