Category: Competition and Antitrust
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Dominance Guidelines Put Decades of Case Law Into One Text
Bonn: Competition lawyers who advise dominant firms have spent seventeen years working from a document…
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Dominance Guidelines Replace Two Decades of Enforcement Priorities
Bologna: The competition lawyers who advise Emilia-Romagna’s packaging machinery cluster spent the first half of…
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Subsidy Approvals Concentrate Where Treasuries Can Afford Them
Three decisions taken in the first fortnight of September tell a story that no single…
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EU Article 102 Guidelines Rewrite the Dominance Test
The EU Article 102 guidelines adopted on 3 September 2026 are the first binding framework…
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Steel Enters the Rescue Aid Rulebook as Old Guidelines Expire
Taranto: The rules deciding whether a government may put public money into a failing company…
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Dominant Firms Face Europe’s First Rulebook on Exclusionary Abuse
Brussels: The European Commission adopted its first full Guidelines on exclusionary abuse on 3 September…
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Four Hundred Million in State Aid Buys Insulin Supply Until 2042
Frankfurt: The insulin lines at Industriepark Höchst were close to shutting. On 8 September the…
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Ferronickel Supply Puts a Chinese Mining Deal in Doubt
A Chinese state-controlled miner wants two ferronickel plants in Brazil, and the Commission has now…
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Ecosystem Theory Survives Its First Real Test in Luxembourg
The General Court handed the European Commission a decisive win on 9 September, dismissing Booking…
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Portugal Taps a Crisis Aid Framework Almost Nobody Has Used
Olhão: Boat owners along this stretch of the Algarve coast have watched fuel bills climb…
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Europe’s New Merger Guidelines Face a Council Test Next Week
Lyon: EU industry ministers hold their first collective debate on the draft merger guidelines when…
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Insulin Supply Now Counts as a Public Service in State Aid Law
Höchst: Inside the sprawling chemical park on the western edge of Frankfurt, Sanofi runs one…
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Dominant Firms Get a Resilience Defence Under Redrawn Guidelines
Mannheim: Lawyers who advise Europe’s largest manufacturers spent the first week of September reading a…
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The Energy Aid Ceiling Falls Back to Fifty Percent in January
Ludwigshafen: The chemical works strung along this stretch of the Rhine buy electricity in volumes…
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Merger Guidelines Rewrite Nears Adoption and Lawyers Are Watching
Competition lawyers across Europe spent the summer filing comments on a document that will govern…
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Copenhagen Wins 84 Million and the Cleantech Aid Window Narrows
Aalborg: Danish manufacturers building components for offshore wind and heat pumps gained access to public…
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Exclusionary Abuse Guidelines Arrive and 2009 Guidance Is Gone
Competition lawyers argued for seventeen years about a document that was never binding. The 2009…
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Dealmakers Get Lighter Paperwork and Sharper Scrutiny at Once
Rotterdam: Lawyers advising on a container terminal sale here now assemble a file that barely…
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Brussels Wrote Down What Abuse of Dominance Means
Brussels: The Commission adopted its first formal guidelines on exclusionary abuse of dominance on 3…
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Judges Found the Commission Wrong and Awarded Nothing at All
Teramo: A regional bank in Abruzzo has spent eleven years arguing that a Commission decision…
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Madrid Must Pay 23.5 Million That Brussels Calls State Aid
Seville: The solar thermal plants that made Andalusia a renewables showcase have produced a state…
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Merger Rules Written in 2004 Finally Get Their First Real Overhaul
Europe still judges corporate takeovers against two documents older than the modern smartphone. The horizontal…
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Europe Rewrote Its Abuse Rules and Left the Hard Part Open
Brussels: After three years of consultation, the Commission adopted its first guidelines on exclusionary abuse…
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Why Europe’s Foreign Subsidy Rules Catch So Few Deals
Lisbon: A rolling stock tender in the Portuguese capital produced something the Union had never…