Licensing and Distribution Practices: Nike, Sanrio and Universal Studios Are Being Investigated In The EU On 14 June 2017 the European Commission opened three investigations into licensing and distribution practices of Nike, Sanrio and Universal Studios and their ability to restrict cross-border and online sales of merchandising products within the EU single market. Merchandising products…
On 21 June 2017 the European Commission sanctioned car lightning system producers a total of EUR 26 744 000 for participating in a cartel. One of the cartel participants was fully immune from fines due to leniency application. All cartel participants admitted their fault and agreed to settle as a result of which their fine…
On 27 June 2017 the European Commission decided to impose an unprecedented EUR 2,42 billion fine on Google (Google Inc. and Alphabet Inc.) for an abuse of dominance by favouring its own shopping service/ads in internet searches (comparison shopping market). Previous EC record antitrust fine on a single company was EUR 1,06 billion for Intel…
1. Introduction The European Commission (“Commission”), being quiet active between the last week of June and first week of July 2017, initiated trade remedy investigations (i.e. anti-dumping and expiry review) against various countries, including Turkey. In particular, the Commission launched an anti-dumping investigation concerning Turkey’s exports to the EU and a trade barrier examination concerning…