Sentences with phrase «european competition authorities»

The main media lobby behind Spain's new intellectual property law, which caused Google to announce that it was to close Google News in Spain, has backpedaled and proclaimed it wants the Spanish government and European competition authorities to intervene to stop Google shutting down the service.

RPC Group has completed its takeover of Danish company Superfos for ₤ 205m ($ 240m) after receiving the go - ahead from European competition authorities last week.

Not exact matches

Crawford thinks that Google will come to terms with European and U.S. competition authorities, but that may be a solution to a fading problem.

In a position paper seen by Reuters, it said the proposed deal was «not approvable» and it would call for it to be referred to European Union competition authorities for review.

The European Union's competition authorities announced a major tax ruling against Apple's tax dealings with the Irish government on Tuesday, a decision that will likely increase trans - Atlantic tension over how some of the world's largest companies pay taxes on their global operations.

European dairy giants Nestle and Vivartia are among a number of companies facing fines imposed by the Greek competition authority for allegedly fixing dairy prices in the country, press reports have said.

The European Commission, which works closely with national competition authorities on antitrust matter, said it would assess the complaint.

In a statement, Tim Godfray, Chief Executive of The Booksellers Association of the U.K. and Ireland, stated: «We are thrilled and delighted that the European Commission's Competition Authority has decided to launch a formal investigation not just into the European e-book sector, but specifically into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements and certain business practices.»

BERLIN, Sept 21 (Reuters)- The association of German book sellers accused Amazon and its subsidiary Audible on Monday of building a monopoly in the audio book business as it lodged complaints with the German competition authority and the European Commission.

EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the companies involved «know very well» under which conditions the European authorities were willing to settle, but warned: «If our conditions can not be met in a satisfactory way, we will continue our investigation.»

The airlines plan to seek approval from the appropriate competition authorities in South America and will inform the regulatory authorities in the European Union.

It first compares the investigative powers of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), of the Directorate - General Competition, of the European Securities and Markets Authority and of the European Public Prosecutor's Office in a well - organised table.

In the area of merger control, Brian regularly represents parties seeking to obtain approval for complex transactions before either the European Commission or national competition authorities.

Prior to joining Dittmar & Indrenius, Heidi worked for another leading Finnish law firm (2014 - 2015) and as a Research Officer at the Finnish Competition Authority as well as a trainee at the European Commission DG Competition where she focused on merger control.

advising on complex procedural and substantive issues arising in the context of criminal and civil investigations and dawn raids conducted by national competition authorities and the European Commission

advising on appeals against decisions of national competition and regulatory authorities and the European Commission

The firm advised Klaas Puul, the second - largest producer and wholesaler of seafood in northwest Europe, on its immunity application to the European Commission and other national competition authorities to avoid liability for anticompetitive behaviour between wholesalers.

Previously, Jaime worked at the European Commission's Directorate - General for Competition on cartel investigations and at the Legal Service of the Spanish Competition Authority.

We advise both complainants and defendants, which regularly involves proceedings before the European Commission and national competition authorities and courts, as well as in civil conduct investigations before the US antitrust authorities and courts.

He has experience in a broad range of antitrust matters, acting for leading companies in a range of transactional and behavioral practices cases in the U.K. Office of Fair Trading / Competition Commission (now combined in the Competition and Markets Authority) and at European Commission level.

In so doing, the Court significantly expanded the scope for taking social interests into account within competition law analysis and rejected the more narrow and liberal approach taken by the Dutch National Competition Authority (NCA), the Dutch government and — not surprisingly — the European competition law analysis and rejected the more narrow and liberal approach taken by the Dutch National Competition Authority (NCA), the Dutch government and — not surprisingly — the European Competition Authority (NCA), the Dutch government and — not surprisingly — the European Commission.

In the past, competition authorities, including the European Commission, have not appeared to be overly concerned with MFN clauses.

On 19 April 2018, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in the MEO — Serviços de Comunicações e Multimedia S.A. v. Competition Authority (C - 525 / 16) case.

In particular, she has significant litigation experience in matters concerning antitrust, investigations carried out by European or French competition authorities, leniency proceedings, monopolies, restrictive practices and distribution law.

EU legal professional privilege has developed in a particular field of EU law, namely EU competition law, in the context of investigations carried out by the competent EU competition law authority, the European Commission (the Commission) into violations of the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union prohibiting anticompetitive agreements and abuse of a dominant position (although, in principle, the privilege could protect communications relating to other proceedings brought by the Commission in which the rights of defence arise).

These rules are relevant in circumstances where a party is or may be investigated by the Commission, or indeed any national competition enforcement authority exercising powers on behalf of the Commission, and in subsequent litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

His domestic focus has been on matters involving the UK's Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority and the Competition and Markets Authority, while his international practice has frequently involved engaging with the US, European and Asian authorities on matters involving corruption, cartels and money laundering.

We know how to communicate with the Department of Justice, the European Commission, and EU national competition authority lawyers when appropriate.

Such proceedings may be brought before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on a stand - alone basis (in which case, a complainant must prove an infringement of certain competition law rules) or on a follow - on basis (which requires an existing infringement decision from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the CAT on an appeal from a decision of the CMA or the European CCompetition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on a stand - alone basis (in which case, a complainant must prove an infringement of certain competition law rules) or on a follow - on basis (which requires an existing infringement decision from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the CAT on an appeal from a decision of the CMA or the European Ccompetition law rules) or on a follow - on basis (which requires an existing infringement decision from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the CAT on an appeal from a decision of the CMA or the European CCompetition and Markets Authority (CMA), the CAT on an appeal from a decision of the CMA or the European Commission).

Lawyers in our European offices have been involved in some of the most significant investigations by the European Commission and national competition authorities.

In recent years, Bea has represented clients in antitrust and regulatory investigations undertaken by EU and UK authorities, including the European Commission, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority, Ofcom and Ofgem.

Boris also has experience of representing clients in the defence of investigations by the European Commission and national competition authorities, including sector inquiries, as well as managing internal investigations into competition law and bribery / corruption issues.

These investigations are often international in scope, and firm lawyers have experience working with clients, lawyers and competition authorities in many parts of the world, including in the European Union and its member nations, Japan, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, and Mexico.

We also have unparalleled experience in sports disputes before the European Court of Justice, the General Court, the European Commission, the Competition and Markets Authority, as well as litigating regularly in the High Court and above.

We have dealt with many high - profile merger control investigations before the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and European Commission (EC) and regularly co-ordinate multijurisdictional merger clearances for M&A transactions.

To date the main method of tackling these competition law infringements has been through public enforcement either by the European Commission or by national competition authorities, eg the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the UK.

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«We are probably seeing the impact of the agreement between European Commission competition authorities and Microsoft, to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers,» said Cullen.

What's alarming for Google is that not only are European competition regulators hot on its heels for allegedly abusing its position of dominance in online search and with Android, tax authorities across the continent are also distinctly unhappy with the contribution the company seems to be making to their respective national exchequers.