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Antitrust
Apple’s DMA Compliance Workshop – The Power of No: Breaking Apart the Bundle?
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) became entirely applicable on 7 March 2024. By then, the gatekeepers issued their compliance reports documenting their technical solutions and ...
Antitrust
The Apple App Store – A New Kind of Hallmark Case
After almost three years since the Commission sent Apple its statement of objections, which was significantly trimmed down, the Commission reached a finding of abuse ...
Antitrust
Preventing Data Portability as Abuse of Dominance: The TCA’s Approach in Sahibinden Decision
Introduction On 23 August 2023, the Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) announced that it had fined Sahibinden Bilgi Teknolojileri Pazarlama ve Ticaret A.Ş. (“Sahibinden”) for abuse ...
Antitrust
Chile’s Battle Against MFNs – Kluwer Competition Law Blog
Introduction The second half of 2023 was hectic regarding digital markets for the Chilean competition authorities (Fiscalía Nacional Económica or “FNE”, the competition agency, and ...
Antitrust
The Commission’s Late but Actual Revenge? The FSR Against the Comeback of the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation
It is often said that one of the greatest things about watching a villain is people wondering when he is going to make his comeback. ...
Antitrust
The Apple Saga’s Prova Generale: The Opinion of AG Pitruzzella
On November 9th 2023, the Advocate General (“AG”) Pitruzzella published his Opinion on the Apple state aid case. More specifically, in Commission v Ireland & ...
Antitrust
Concept of Undertaking in the Service of Legal Documents? The AG Opinion in the Transsaqui Case
In an opinion delivered on 11 January 2024, Advocate General Szpunar concludes that the concept of ‘undertaking’ cannot be invoked to determine the parties that ...
Antitrust
EU Commission Proposal for a new European Economic Security Framework
What a difference five years make. In 2019, the European Union (EU) created a modest common framework for foreign direct investment (FDI) screening, Regulation 2019/452 ...
Antitrust
Full (Regulatory) Steam Ahead: Gatekeepers Issue the First Wave of DMA Compliance Reports
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is now applicable. Following the 6-month interim period where gatekeepers had the opportunity to adapt their business models to the ...