BRUSSELS, 28-Sep-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has found that Scania broke EU antitrust rules. It colluded for 14 years with five other truck manufacturers on truck pricing and on passing on the costs of new technologies to meet stricter … Read the full press release
Posted in European Union, Industrial, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged EU antitrust rules, European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, Scania
BRUSSELS, 27-Jul-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has made commitments offered by Paramount legally binding under EU antitrust rules. These address the Commission’s concerns regarding certain clauses in film licensing contracts for pay-TV between Paramount and Sky UK. These clauses … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Entertainment, European Union, Government, Law, Media, United Kingdom
Tagged cross-border pay-TV services, EU antitrust rules, EU Commission, Paramount
16-8-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission is inviting comments from interested parties on commitments offered by the German railway incumbent Deutsche Bahn (DB) regarding its pricing system for traction current in Germany. Traction current is electricity used to power locomotives. … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, European Union, Germany, Government, Law, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Article 102 TFEU, Competition, DB Energie, DB Group, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bahn commitments, dominant market position, EC, EU antitrust rules, German railway incumbent Deutsche Bahn, long-distance passenger transport, pricing system for traction current in Germany, rail freight, railway companies, traction current
Brussels, 20-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission has imposed a fine of € 93,8 million on Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck and fines totalling € 52,2 million on several producers of generic medicines. In 2002, Lundbeck agreed with each of these … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Denmark, European Union, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Law, Pharma & Biotech, Society
Tagged anticompetitive agreements, antidepressant medicine, ANTITRUST, blockbuster antidepressant, citalopram, citalopram molecule, EU antitrust rules, fine, generic medicines, Generics UK, Joaquin Almunia, lump sums, Lundbeck, medicines, Merck KGaA, Patents, pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy, Zoetis
Brussels, 11-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Antitrust: Commission proposes legislation to facilitate damage claims by victims of antitrust violations. The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a Directive on how citizens and companies can claim damages when they are victims of infringements … Read the full press release
Brussels, 24-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Antitrust: Commission renders legally binding commitments from Star alliance members Air Canada, United and Lufthansa on transatlantic air transport passenger market. The European Commission has accepted commitments offered by Air Canada, United and Lufthansa to address the … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, European Union, Financial, Government, Law, Transportation & Logistics, Travel
Tagged Air Canada, ANTITRUST, Brussels, EU antitrust rules, Frankfurt-New York route, joint venture, Lufthansa, passenger market, passengers, revenue-sharing joint venture, Star alliance, transatlantic air transport, transatlantic air transport passenger market, United
Brussels, 17-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission can confirm that on 23 April 2013 Commission officials undertook unannounced inspections at the premises of companies active in the sugar industry in several Member States. The inspections relate to the supply of white … Read the full press release
Brussels, 14-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Vice President Almunia welcomes Visa Europe’s proposed commitments to significantly cut its inter-bank fees for credit card payments, to a level of 0.3% of the value of the transaction (a reduction of about 40 to 60%) and … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Belgium, Business, European Union, Financial, Government, Law
Tagged ANTITRUST, Competition, credit cards, EU antitrust rules, inter-bank fees, Joaquin Almunia, Visa Europe
Brussels, 6-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission has informed Motorola Mobility of its preliminary view that the company’s seeking and enforcing of an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents (“SEPs”) amounts to an abuse … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, European Union, Germany, Government, Internet & Online, Law, Technology, Telecom
Tagged ANTITRUST, Apple, Competition, court, dominant position, ETSI, EU antitrust rules, FRAND, FRAND royalties, GPRS, GSM, GSM standard, INNOVATION, intellectual property, intellectual property rights, Joaquin Almunia, licence, licensee, Motorola Mobility, patent infringements, patent licensees, Patents, SEPs, wireless communications
Brussels, 22-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission is inviting comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Penguin (Pearson Group, United Kingdom). The proposed commitments aim to alleviate concerns that Penguin may have engaged in an anti-competitive concerted practice affecting the … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, European Union, Government, Internet & Online, Law, Marketing, Media, Retail, United Kingdom
Tagged ANTITRUST, Brussels, Competition, competition concerns, e-books, EEA, EU antitrust rules, Hachette, Harper Collins, Holtzbrinck, Most Favoured Nation, Pearson Group, Penguin, publishers, retail prices, Simon & Schuster, The European Commission
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