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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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Bill of Law: Simplification of access to certain professions in Luxembourg

On 22 December 2017, the Luxembourg Minister of Economics filed Bill of law 7228("Bill”) aiming to amend the Law of 2 September 2011 on access to…

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An important decision for Uber: the qualification of this startup as a "service in the field of transport"

The Court of Justice ruled that “an intermediation service […], the purpose of which is to connect, by means of a smartphone application and…

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Towards the end of the monopoly of the National Laboratory of Health?

On November 30, 2017, the Administrative Court upheld the Administrative Tribunal's judgment of 27 April 2017, according to which a pri…

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Bill of law No. 7228 – simplification of access to certain professions in Luxembourg

On 22nd December 2017, the Luxembourg Minister of Economics filed Bill of law No. 7228 (the “Bill”) aiming to amend the Law of 2 September 2011 on acc…

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Le Conseil de la concurrence censuré par la Cour administrative

Le 1er juin 2017, la Cour administrative a rendu son arrêt, portant le numéro 38930C du rôle, dans une affaire très importante relative à un…

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Final report on the sector inquiry on electronic commerce

On 10 May 2017 the European Commission published its final report on the sectoral survey on electronic commerce in consumer goods and digita…

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Law on market abuse

By a Law dated 23 December 2016 , the Luxembourg legislator adopted Bill of law 7022 (a) implementing (i) Directive 2014/57/EU on criminal s…

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Commitment decision in public procurement context

By Decision 2017-E-01 dated 8 March 2017, the Luxembourg Competition Council has accepted commitments offered by two companies operating in the passen…

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Distance selling of non-prescription medicines

On April 27, 2017, the Chamber of Deputies passed a law allowing the sale of medicines not subject to prescription via the internet. This text can be …

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Towards the end of uberisation of passenger transport?

Uber's model is highly controversial: some hail competition from the services of taxi companies, others consider that the services offered by Uber con…

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NEWSFLASH GDPR N°7 - New Data Protection Obligations

Following the adoption of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 27 April 2016, most organisations began to re-examine their internal…

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Anti-competitive practices: victims can act before civil courts

On 7 December 2016, competition law in Luxembourg was considerably strengthened by the entry into force of the law implementing EU Directive 2014/104,…

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UBER in Luxembourg: are taxi services "über-reguliert"?

The Grand-Duchy is one of the last European countries in which UBER does not offer its services. It will however probably not be the case for much lon…

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Luxembourg competition authority defines criteria and opens its leniency programme for illegal resale price ma…

On 26 July 2016, the Luxembourg Competition Council ("Conseil de la Concurrence") issued a decision in which it stressed that a resale price main…

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Ex-Post-Merger Control: Competence Of The Competition Council

On 17 June 2016, the Luxembourg Competition Council adopted a decision in which it asserts, on the basis of Article 5 of the Law of 23 …

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Ex-Post-Merger Control: Competence Of The Competition Council

On 17 June 2016, the Luxembourg Competition Council adopted a decision in which it asserts, on the basis of Article 5 of the Law of 23 …

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New Market Abuse Legislation

On 3 July 2016, the market abuse obligations and prohibitions provided in the updated EU legislation became applicable(1). The new set of legislation …

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The Conseil de la concurrence investigates certain mergers and acquisitions in Luxembourg.

Luxembourg still has no national merger control system meaning that, contrary to all other countries in the EU, mergers, acquisitions and creations of…

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No prior merger control but acquisitions leading to a hyper-dominance can be prohibited as an abuse of dominan…

Luxembourg is the only country in the European Union ("EU") that has no prior merger control system. In principle, acquisitions do not fall within the…

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Actions for damages for infringements of competition law

The draft law n° 6968 on certain rules governing actions for damages for infringements of competition law (hereinafter the “Draft Law”) amends the law…

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