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In April 2008, the European Federation of Accountants (FEE) published its study, Trans-National Organisations and Practices within the Accountancy Profession
In February 2003, the European Commission carried out a dawn raid of Akzo Nobel and Akcros Chemicals (the applicants) seeking evidence of anticompetitive behaviour
Akzo Nobel Chemicals and Akcros Chemicals were subject to a competition investigation by the European Commission, during which the Commission seized several documents over which the applicants claimed legal professional privilege
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
