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The Italian Antitrust Authority rules that Merck group must grant royalty-free licenses of its patented active ingredient finasteride

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • May 29 2007

On 21 March 2007, the Italian Antitrust Authority (the “Authority”) has ruled that Merck & Co. and Merck Sharp & Dohme S.p.A. (together “Merck”) must grant licenses royalty-free under its Supplementary Protection Certificate (“SPC”) covering the active ingredient Finasteride and its presentation in tablets of 5 mg for the treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia (the “Product”

Poseidon gas pipeline between Greece and Italy exempt from third party access, subject to conditions

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Greece, Italy
  • -
  • May 29 2007

The European Commission has approved, subject to conditions, the exemption of the "Poseidon pipeline" from the third party access rules

The one thousand deferrals decree

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • January 26 2009

In 2009, the Competition Authority will particularly focus on consumer protection issues

Infringement proceedings against Italy regarding service stations

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, Italy
  • -
  • March 7 2008

The European Commission considers that the Italian provisions on the establishment of service stations are contrary to Article 43 of the EC Treaty, which provides for freedom of establishment within the European Union

Ryanair claims Commission failed to take appropriate action

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Italy
  • -
  • March 12 2008

Ryanair has lodged two actions before the Court of First Instance (CFI) alleging that the European Commission (Commission) failed to act in relation to complaints of anti-competitive behaviour by the Italian authorities in favour of certain airlines

Dispute over whether contract specifications are discriminatory

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Italy
  • -
  • February 17 2009

The Italian Government and European Commission (Commission) are currently in dispute over whether the participation requirements for the award of a contract to provide banking services to the University of Parma were discriminatory

AlitaliaAir One merger in constitutional limbo

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • June 5 2009

Italian Decree 1342008, which suspended competition law for crisis buyouts, thereby allowing the merger of Alitalia and Air One, has been called into question following a claim of unconstitutionality brought by consumer association Federconsumatori, Italian airline Meridiana, its subsidiary Eurofly and the province of Milan

"Italian torpedo” claims get a boost in the Italian courts

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • May 19 2009

The Court of Milan has rejected Eni’s request for a ‘negative ascertainment', which was aimed to have the court declare there was no cartel (which had been found following a Commission investigation in 2006 and involved a fine of 519 million for participants in a price-fixing ring for synthetic rubber) and that, accordingly, no damages were suffered by the tyre manufacturers

Commission approves proposed acquisition of UBI Vita by Aviva Italia

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, Italy
  • -
  • April 25 2008

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of UBI Vita, the life insurance branch of UBI S.c.p.a. , by Aviva Italia Holding S.p.A. both of Italy

Italian court gives decision on the unfair practices of financial intermediaries

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • September 3 2009

The Italian Consiglio di Stato (a jurisdictional Court with competence to issue non-binding opinions on matters of public law) has recently affirmed, in an opinion issued upon the request of the Italian Antitrust Authority, that financial intermediaries are not subject to discipline for aggressive, unfair and misleading conduct under the Consumer Code (implementing the European Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 200529EC