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18/03/24
No impairment of the EC’s impartiality: ECJ upholds Scania j…

In its judgment of 1 February 2024, the ECJ dismissed Scania’s appeal in it…

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14/03/24
Commission steers market definition to the 21st century

The European Commission has updated its guidance on how to define relevant …

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Luxembourg: public consultation on the introduction of a national merger control regime

On 20 January 2022, the Luxembourg State has launched a public consultation concerning the introduction of a national merger control regime for undert…

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Luxembourg Ministry of Economy initiates public consultation on the design of a national merger control regime…

The Luxembourg Ministry of Economy initiated a public consultation procedure regarding the potential introduction of a national merger control regime …

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Merger control in Luxembourg – Launch of a public consultation

On 20 January 2022, the Ministry of Economy launched a public consultation on the possible implementation of a merger control regime in Luxembourg.

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Registration of individuals with the Luxembourg trade and companies register

On 1 October 2021, the Luxembourg Business Register informed that any natural person to be registered with the Luxembourg trade and companies register…

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Prohibition of online advertising in a list of e-mails or messages – a misstep by the CJEU?

When submitted a request for a preliminary ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is expect to answer questions – not raise too man…

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Draft revised vertical regulation and guidelines

The European Commission takes a hard line against online platforms, dual distribution and MFNs

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Luxembourg competition law update

Several decisions and judgments in the competition law field over the last quarter are noteworthy. A link to the 2020 Annual Report of the Competition…

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Luxembourg Competition Council imposes highest ever fine for resale price maintenance agreements

Luxembourg Competition Council imposes highest ever fine on Bahlsen and supermarket chains Cactus, Auchan and Delhaize for resale price maintenance ag…

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Consumer law class action

Bill of law 7650 (“Bill ”), which was recently presented by the Government, aims to introduce a class action procedure allowing for the compensat…

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Consumer Class Action Law: Draft Legislation Gathering Pace in Luxembourg

On 14 August 2020, the Luxembourg Minister for Consumer Protection presented Parliament with bill n°7650 concerning the introduction of consumer class…

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Restructuring and Corporate Recovery measures in Luxembourg – April 2020

Luxembourg went into full Coronavirus lockdown on March 16. By the ministerial decree of 16 March 2020, the State narrowed down the movement of citize…

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Covid-19 Impact on Luxembourg Contractual Obligations

In this unprecedented health crisis, many economic actors are facing the impossibility of fulfilling their contractual obligations or do not wish to h…

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Contracts and commercial litigation: Covid-19 as an unforeseeable event and/or a material adverse change

For contracts governed by Luxembourg law, the parties may wish to consider if the COVID-19 outbreak has rendered the obligation impossible to fulfil a…

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Buying alliances in Europe are under threat

On Monday 18 November 2019 the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets ("ACM") announced that the regulator had dawn raided several large traders in…

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Competition update: Digital sector, provisional measures and competition law revision

At EU level, a number of developments took place over the summer regarding potential competition law infringements in the digital sector. 

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Acquisition of shares: No abuse of dominance

By Decision 2019-R-01 of 15 March 2019, the Competition Council (“Council”) dismissed the complaint filed against Encevo S.A. (“Encevo”), En…

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Sales practices: geo-blocking and territorial segmentation of the market becoming more difficult in Luxembourg…

Since 3 December 2018, EU Regulation 2018/302 on addressing unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality…

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Useful details concerning competition law inquiries

A request for information, issued by the Designated Advisor to the Competition Council in the context of an investigation of anti-competitive practice…

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Cooperation between companies from the standpoint of competition law and the FEDIL competition conference of O…

The boundaries between the legal and the illegal can be very tight, which can be observed in the context of business cooperation agreements. On the Lu…

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Competition law and algorithms: the Luxembourg Competition Council exempts a booking platform in the taxi sect…

Algorithms is the hot topic in competition law. In June 2017, the OECD published a paper on the risk of collusion in the use of algorithms. This issue…

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