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Nabarro LLP | United Kingdom | 7 Mar 2013
Procurement and tax: beware your sins will find you out
With effect from 1 April 2013 suppliers tendering for government contracts above the threshold will be required to declare their tax compliance…
Nabarro LLP | United Kingdom | 10 Jan 2013
OFT’s first review of NHS Foundation Trust merger
The Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) review of a merger between two NHS Foundation Trusts is the first of its kind following the enactment of the Health…
Nabarro LLP | United Kingdom | 16 Dec 2011
OFT considers market reference into the private healthcare market
Following an initial review and report the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is proposing to ask the CC to undertake a detailed investigation of the competition in the £5bn privately funded healthcare services market.
Nabarro LLP | European Union | 16 Dec 2011
Emergency bank aid rules extended – again!
Due to prolonged financial tension caused by the sovereign debt crisis, the Commission has extended the temporary state aid crisis framework to assess public support to financial institutions.
Nabarro LLP | European Union | 16 Dec 2011
Copper cartel participant’s human rights appeal rejected by ECJ
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected arguments by two participants in a copper cartel that the General Court infringed community law and their fundamental right to a fair trial by failing to carry out an adequate review of the Commission’s decision.
Nabarro LLP | European Union | 16 Dec 2011
Commission opens formal antitrust proceedings in e-book publishing sector
The European Commission has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether five international publishers (Hacette Livre, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Macmillan) engaged in anti-competitive, illegal agreements for the sale of e-books.
Nabarro LLP | United Kingdom | 16 Dec 2011
The OFT’s case goes up in smoke
The Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) handed down a judgment on 12 December 2011, in which it refused to permit the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to alter and refine its case against members of an alleged tobacco cartel.
Nabarro LLP | European Union | 16 Dec 2011
ECJ confirms France Télécom received a selective advantage under the tax rules
The ECJ upheld the General Court’s decision that the special tax regime afforded to France Télécom (FT) between 1994 and 2002 constituted state aid.
Nabarro LLP | Italy | 16 Dec 2011
Italian authorities get their hands on airline merger after a three year postponement
The Italian competition authority launched a long-delayed investigation into the Alitalia-CAI merger to determine its impact on the profitable Rome-Milan route and 17 other destinations.
Nabarro LLP | European Union | 16 Dec 2011
Commission erroneously evaluated tender on the basis of bidders’ experience
The General Court (GC) has criticised the European Commission’s basing of the award of a contract on the criterion of the tenderers’ experience in breach of procurement rules which require experience to be assessed at the selection stage.
