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18/03/18

On March 1st, the European Commission cleared a merger first announced more than a year ago and notified on August 22nd, Essilor/Luxottica (M. 8394). Unusually after a Phase II procedure, […]

24/01/18

We have already discussed in several occasions the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The implementation date is approaching –25 May 2018– but many doubts remain. For instance, how can […]

19/11/17

On 19 October last we were honoured by an invitation to the 1st Consumer Policy Academy, that the regional Health Ministry organised at the University of the Balearic Islands to […]

03/11/17

On 26 October last, the General Court (GC) handed down a somewhat unexpected judgment in Case T-394/15: the GC annulled the Commission’s Decision of 10 October 2014 approving a concentration […]

02/10/17

Stick to your guns In October 2016 we commented some fines that the Spanish national competition authority (CNMC) had imposed on legal Bar associations, because the decisions raised some fundamental […]

15/09/17

It’s been a week since the ECJ published its Intel judgment (Case C-413/14 P) and already it has caused quite a stir. Which is hardly surprising, though, considering that we are […]

07/07/17

On 27 June last, the European Commission imposed a EUR 2,424,495,000 fine on Google for allegedly abusing its dominant position on the market for Internet search engines. Since, illustrious antitrust […]

31/05/17

Last Friday, May 26th, less than half a year late, the Spanish Government adopted Royal Law-Decree (Real Decreto-Ley, RDL)  9/2017, which implements into Spanish law the European Union damages Directive […]