On Monday 18 November 2019 the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets ("ACM") announced that the regulator had dawn raided several large traders in the agriculture sector. These dawn-raids follow a European trend in which regulators across Europe focus on buying alliances and cartels in the agricultural and retail sectors. In this blog we will discuss this trend.
At EU level, a number of developments took place over the summer regarding potential competition law infringements in the digital sector.
By Decision 2019-R-01 of 15 March 2019, the Competition Council (“Council”) dismissed the complaint filed against Encevo S.A. (“Encevo”), Enovos Luxembourg S.A. (“Enovos”), the number one energy suppliers in Luxembourg
Since 3 December 2018, EU Regulation 2018/302 on addressing unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market has been directly effective in the European Union
A request for information, issued by the Designated Advisor to the Competition Council in the context of an investigation of anti-competitive practices, is not subject to an action for annulment before the Administrative Tribunal
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 Luxembourg market, companies may want to collaborate to better meet certain customer requirements
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 has been regularly addressed by Commissioner Vestager in her speeches.
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 certain professions, as amended ("2011 Law”) with the Luxembourg Parliament.
The Court of Justice ruled that “an intermediation service […], the purpose of which is to connect, by means of a smartphone application and for remuneration, non-professional drivers using their own vehicle with persons who wish to make urban journey
On November 30, 2017, the Administrative Court upheld the Administrative Tribunal's judgment of 27 April 2017, according to which a private laboratory must be authorized to expand its activities in the field of pathological anatomy
