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European high court decision delivers blow to Greek gambling monopoly

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • European Union, Greece
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  • January 29 2013

This past Friday, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU's highest court, issued an opinion finding that national legislation granting an

Regulatory & public law group annual digest 2012

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • December 13 2012

2012 has been an eventful sporting year, and while it may be hyperbole to argue that the drama of the arbitration rooms of Lausanne matched London's

Consumer goods update October 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Indonesia, Myanmar, United Kingdom
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  • October 9 2012

Welcome to our consumer goods sector update a publication which highlights some key recent legal issues affecting consumer goods businesses

Travel industry faces UK price-fixing fines

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 31 2012

The UK Office of Fair Trading today announced that it has reached the provisional view that online travel agents Expedia and Booking.com and International Hotels Group have infringed UK competition law by agreeing to restrict the online travel agents' discount levels

Commission’s decision refusing access to documents in the AirtoursFirst Choice merger case partially annulled by the Court of Justice

  • Stibbe
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 17 2012

In 1999, Airtours (which is now MyTravel Group hereinafter MyTravel ) launched a bid to acquire First Choice, another UK tour operator

Game on! Council of State rules in favour of Betfair

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • July 25 2011

In light of last year's preliminary ruling by the European Court of Justice, the Council of State recently concluded that the current system for the grant or renewal of a licence for games of chance to a single operator without competitive tendering restricts the freedom to provide services as laid down in Article 56 TFEU

General Court reduces the fines imposed on Heineken, Heineken Nederland and Bavaria for their participation in the Dutch beer cartel

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union, Netherlands
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  • June 20 2011

On 16 June 2011, the General Court handed down its judgments in appeals by Heineken NV, its subsidiary Heineken Nederland BV and Bavaria NV against a Commission decision finding that they had infringed Article 101(1) TFEU by operating an illegal price-fixing cartel in the beer market in the Netherlands

Advocate General recommends release of documents in the Airtours case

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Sweden
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  • March 29 2011

Advocate General (AG) Kokott has given her Opinion (Case C-50608 P) on an appeal by Sweden against the General Court's judgement in an appeal by MyTravel against the European Commission's refusal to provide access to certain documents in relation to the AirtoursFirst Choice merger

Yellow card for sports rights-holders: exclusive sports broadcasting rights and the protection of “crown jewels”

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
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  • European Union
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  • March 25 2011

On 3 February 2011, Advocate General Julianne Kokott (the "AG") issued a non-binding Opinion that territorial exclusivity agreements relating to the satellite transmission of football matches are contrary to EU law

Commission communication on sport

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 3 2011

In a Communication dated 18 January 2011, the Commission put forward proposals aimed at strengthening, amongst other things, the economic dimensions of sport