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Dawn raids: regulatory inspections of your IT equipment and storage media

  • RPC
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  • European Union
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  • April 8 2013

The European Commission has recently affirmed its current practices for searching IT equipment and storage media during a 'dawn raid' inspection of

What next in the battle for control of eBook prices?

  • RPC
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  • European Union, USA
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  • July 18 2012

Anti-trust investigations in both the US and the EU into the pricing and distribution models for eBooks have cast a number of issues firmly into the spotlight

EU warning to financial services industry to keep its house in order

  • RPC
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  • European Union
  • -
  • May 16 2011

EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia today warned that ex ante regulation of the financial services industry is no substitute for competition compliance

E-book pricing: the clash between copyright and competition law

  • RPC
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • April 11 2011

The OFT and the European Commission have opened up an almost exam question issue of the rights of a copyright owner to control the use made of its copyright works which makes for an interesting heavyweight bout between copyright and competition laws

Legal professional privilege: Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd and Akcros Chemicals Limited v Commission

  • RPC
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 25 2010

This ruling follows Advocate General Kokott's opinion issued on 29 April 2010 at first instance, that in-house lawyers are not protected by legal professional privilege in the EU competition context

Akzo Nobel ECJ judgment

  • RPC
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  • European Union
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  • September 14 2010

Handing down its decision in the appeal of the Akzo Nobel case today, the European Court of Justice has determined that legal professional privilege does not and should not extend to communications between in-house counsel and their business clients in EU Commission competition investigations

Akzo Nobel Chemicals Limited and Akcros Chemicals Limited v Commission

  • RPC
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  • European Union
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  • June 30 2008

In February 2003, the European Commission carried out a dawn raid of Akzo Nobel and Akcros Chemicals (the applicants) seeking evidence of anticompetitive behaviour