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European Commission releases backloading proposal

  • Norton Rose Australia
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  • European Union
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  • November 15 2012

IntroductionEarlier this week, the European Commission released its proposal to “backload” auction volumes to tackle the potential surplus of European Union Allowances at the beginning of Phase III of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

The EU ETS - a primer for Australian companies

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia, European Union
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  • October 18 2012

In our recent legal update we covered the Australian government’s announcement of the linking of the Carbon Pricing Mechanism (CPM) with the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS

The EU ETS - a primer for Australian companies

  • Norton Rose Australia
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  • Australia, European Union
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  • September 18 2012

On 28 August 2012, the Australian Government and European Commission announced that they would link their respective greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes

Linking with the EU ETS: the carbon price evolution

  • Norton Rose Australia
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  • Australia, European Union
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  • August 29 2012

Two months into the operation of the fixed-price phase of Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism (CPM) the Federal Government has announced a major policy change to the design of the CPM

Telecoms: EU probe on mobile merger puts sector consolidation on hold

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 16 2012

June 2012 decision to investigate HutchisonOrange Austria will clarify position on “four-to-three” mergers

Leniency from fines new answers to tricky questions on leniency programmes

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 16 2012

This year, new judgments from courts in four European countries have shed light on handling difficult issues flowing from competition “leniency programmes”

“Crisis cartels” can an economic downturn ever excuse anti-competitive practices?

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 16 2012

The global economic downturn has given new life to the difficult question of whether competition authorities will ever tolerate anti-competitive agreements, practices or mergers on the grounds that they are necessitated by adverse economic conditions

Financial services: payment cards new EU general court ruling on interchange

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 16 2012

A landmark ruling by the EU’s General Court, issued in May this year, gives the latest thinking on scheme-wide interchange rates in payment card schemes

Technology: bundling software products will China follow microsoft?

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • China, European Union
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  • July 16 2012

In April this year, a Chinese court began hearing a case of anti-competitive practices in the software market which bears striking resemblances to the European Commission’s case against Microsoft a decade ago

There are a number of possible scenarios that might be envisaged as to how a member state might exit the Eurozone.

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 11 2012

There are a number of possible scenarios that might be envisaged as to how a member state might exit the Eurozone