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EU competition authorities tighten the screws on resale price maintenance

European Union - May 11 2016 The seemingly slumbering enforcement of resale price maintenance in some parts of Europe has flared up with almost every competition authority…

Gurgen Hakopian, Erik Pijnacker Hordijk, Peter Maessen, Jolling de Pree, Bart de Rijke

Summer is coming! And so are hefty cartel fines

Netherlands - April 12 2016 The Act increasing the maximum fine that the Authority for Consumers and Markets can impose for cartel infringements is set to enter into force on 1…

Gurgen Hakopian, Peter Maessen, Stefan Molin, Jolling de Pree, Bart de Rijke

Information requests in competition investigations: no fishing please

European Union - April 12 2016 A recent ruling by the European Court of Justice clarifies that companies should put more thought into answering requests for information by the…

Gurgen Hakopian, Peter Maessen, Jolling de Pree, Bart de Rijke, Martijn Snoep

Cold storage companies froze competition with premature merger discussions

Netherlands - April 12 2016 The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets imposed a fine of EUR 12.5 million on four companies in the cold storage industry. Two of them had been…

Gurgen Hakopian, Erik Pijnacker Hordijk, Peter Maessen, Jolling de Pree, Bart de Rijke

Double-check your online sales contracts: initial results on geo-blocking published

European Union - April 12 2016 Companies should brace themselves for the extra attention that their agreements with online distributors, in particular, are likely to get. The…

Gurgen Hakopian, Peter Maessen, Stefan Molin, Jolling de Pree, Bart de Rijke