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Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | United Kingdom | 22 May 2019
CMA director disqualification cases signal greater focus on individual liability for breach of competition rules
On 10th May 2019 the CMA secured the disqualification of three former directors of companies involved in a bid rigging cartel in the design
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De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani Studio Legale | Italy | 6 May 2019
L’AGCM ha avviato un’istruttoria nei confronti di Amazon per abuso di posizione dominante
Con delibera del 10 aprile 20191 l’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) ha avviato un’istruttoria nei confronti del gruppo Amazon2
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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | European Union | 15 Apr 2019
GDPR’s Most Frequently Asked Questions: Are processors required to fully indemnify controllers for all of their processing actions?
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is arguably the most comprehensive - and complex - data privacy regulation in the
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Bird & Bird LLP | Netherlands, Australia, Spain, etc. | 11 Apr 2019
Competitive Edge: Competition & EU law news - April 2019
On 19 March 2019, the European Commission (“EC”) announced the launch of "eLeniency", its new online tool for companies to submit statements and
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Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | European Union | 5 Apr 2019
European Commission publishes special advisors' report on competition policy for the digital era
The wide-ranging Report addresses, amongst other things: the way digital markets work and implications for competition law analysis; the aim of EU
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Maverick Advocaten NV | Netherlands | 19 Mar 2019
Healthcare: ACM and NZa must pull out all the stops in 2019
The year 2019 will present numerous challenges for both the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (“ACM”) and the Dutch Healthcare
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Maverick Advocaten NV | Netherlands, United Kingdom, OECD | 19 Mar 2019
Pharma and medical devices controversial issues at ACM and NZa in 2019
Also in 2019, the costs of expensive medicines are high on the (political) agenda in European Member States, including the Netherlands. In late
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Bugnion SpA | Japan | 28 Feb 2019
Methods for calculating the amount of damages in Japan may change!?
One cannot say that amounts of damages awarded in Japan are significantly attractive for most patent proprietors, while the claim for damages is one
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McCann FitzGerald | European Union, Germany | 20 Feb 2019
German Federal Cartel Office orders Facebook to Stop ‘Unrestricted Collection of Data’
The German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) (“FCO”) has issued a decision imposing far-reaching restrictions on Facebook’s gathering of its
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WH Partners | European Union, Germany | 18 Feb 2019
Competition in a digital economy: German competition authority issues restrictions against Facebook’s data processing activities
On 7 February 2019, the German Competition Authority (Bundeskartellamt) issued a statement on its decision to impose wide-ranging behavioural
