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Advocate General's opinion on gas tariff regime: Fluxys SA v CREG

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • Belgium, European Union
  • -
  • October 6 2010

Under the 2003 Gas Directive, operators of a transmission system, distribution system or LNG facility requiring to offer third party access must base their charges on published tariffs or methodologies approved by the regulatory authority

European Court rejects privilege protection for in-house lawyers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 14 2010

On 14 September 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its eagerly awaited judgment on the scope of legal professional privilege ("LPP") under EU law

European court ready to reject privilege protection for in-house lawyers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 29 2010

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is on course to continue to deny legal professional privilege (LPP) to legal advice given by in-house lawyers in EU competition law investigations

Record fine for anti-competitive conduct as Intel cashes in its chips

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • June 9 2009

On 13 May 2009, the European Commission imposed a record fine of 1.06bn on Intel for engaging in illegal anti-competitive practices to exclude competitors from the market for computer chips, known as CPUs (central processing units

Fines and damages

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • June 9 2009

The European Commission is continuing its push to make it easier for companies suspected of engaging in antitrust violations to be sued in national courts

ECJ rules on Easter bunnies and bad faith

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 9 2009

On 12 March 2009 Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston QC provided her Opinion to the ECJ in Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG v Franz Hauswirth GmbH

Gas unbundling another way forward?

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • January 8 2009

On 5 December 2008 the European Commission published in the Official Journal a summary of its competition law concerns regarding the German provider RWE's involvement in the German gas transmission network and details of the commitments which RWE have offered to address these concerns

European Ombudsman opens inquiry into substance of European Commission's decision in bricks cartel

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • September 3 2008

A German competitor of a collection of Dutch brick producers who had received an exemption for an apparently anti-competitive agreement in 1999, complained about that exemption to the European Commission in 2001

European Commission publishes White Paper on damages actions for breaches of EC antitrust rules

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 4 2008

On 3 April 2008, the European Commission (the Commission) published its long awaited White Paper on damages actions for breaches of EC antitrust rules

Application of competition law to public bodies - recent ECJ authority

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Greece
  • -
  • April 3 2008

In the first case, an independent Greek motor sport organiser challenged the decision of ELPA to refuse consent for an event it wanted to organise