Regulations

The 2014 General Block exemption Regulation (the “Regulation”) exempts certain categories of state aid from the requirement of prior notification to the Commission and they can be implemented by Member States without prior Commission approval, provided they meet certain requirements ...

The CNMC has required the Ministry of Public Works to eliminate anticompetitive restrictions on passenger transport in the segment of hiring a car with driver (VTC). These restrictions have been introduced by the Royal Decree 1057/2015, which incorporates obstacles to ...

With a recent judgment in the case T-623/13, the General Court ratified the presumption used by the European Commission for which documents exchanged between the Commission and a national competition authority in proceedings concerning an infringement of the competition rules ...

The General Court stated, with decision of 21 January 2015 in the case Easyjet (T-355/13),  that the Commission may reject a complaint on the basis that a national competition authority has already dealt with it. In 2008, EasyJet lodged complaints ...

Today (10 November 2014), the Council formally adopted the corrigendum text as approved by the ECON Committee in September 2014 for the Directive on antitrust damages actions. The text was signed off without amendments and it is therefore expected that ...