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A single meeting between competitors may breach competition law

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • June 10 2009

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a single meeting between companies may constitute a concerted practice in breach of competition law

ECJ rules that a single meeting between competitors may constitute a cartel

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Netherlands
  • -
  • June 12 2009

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a single meeting between five Dutch mobile phone operators, in which the companies discussed cutting the fees paid to phone dealers for subscriptions, is sufficient to establish a concerted practice in breach of competition rules

Judgment in GSK's Spanish dual pricing case

  • NautaDutilh
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • October 7 2009

In March 1998, GSK notified its Spanish dual pricing arrangements to the European Commission in order to obtain a declaration that these arrangements were not caught by the prohibition of anticompetitive agreements laid down in Article 81(1) EC or, failing that, an exemption in light of the efficiency gains obtained by countering parallel trade in pharmaceutical products

Private enforcement: uniting the competition

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • January 14 2008

Private enforcement is an important issue in the development of EC competition law

Single meeting held to be concerted practice

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • July 13 2009

On 4 June 2009, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that a single meeting between Dutch mobile phone operators could result in anti-competitive collusion in breach of Article 81(1) EC

Unlawful competition interpretation of concerted practice

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • November 11 2009

In the case NMa v Dutch mobile operators (C- 808), regarding fines imposed by the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa) on such operators for reasons of concerted practice, the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven) referred three questions on the interpretation of article 81(1) EC to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling

AG opinion on Commission's role as "amicus curiae"

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • March 30 2009

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been asked by a Dutch court (in case C-42907) to rule upon the scope of the European Commission's role as "amicus curiae" or a "friend to the court" in a case involving EU competition law

Competition law and public policy

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • June 30 2009

Contrary to EU case law on Article 81 EC, the Court of Appeal of Arnhem recently reiterated that the cartel prohibition laid down in Article 6 of the Dutch Competition Act is not a matter of public policy

Amicus curiae: European Commission as willy-nilly best friend?

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • June 30 2009

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the European Commission can intervene as amicus curiae in the appeal against the ruling by the District Court of Haarlem on the tax deductibility of fines imposed by the European Commission for cartel infringements

Tax deductibility of cartel fines continued

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • March 31 2009

The District Court of Breda recently ruled in line with an earlier ruling by the District Court of Harlem, that fines imposed for infringing Dutch competition law are not deductible for corporate tax purposes