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On 20 January 2016, the Court of Justice ruled on the relationship between leniency applications submitted to the Commission and to national comp…
Lire plusThe Belgian Competition Authority recently published its decision on the acquisition by Cordeel Group (a general contractor company) of the Belgian ac…
Lire plusOutre certaines autres adaptations apportées au Code de droit économique (ci-après « CDE »), la loi du 26 octobre 20151 a également entraîné dans…
Lire plusLe 29 octobre 2015, la Cour de cassation a tranché une question importante : la réglementation concernant la période d’attente (interdiction d’annonce…
Lire plusOn 13 November 2015, a draft bill introducing into Belgian competition law a new infringement called “abuse of significant dominant position” (the “Dr…
Lire plusOn 27 July 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") imposed provisional measures on the Fédération Equestre internationale ("FEI"), the in…
Lire plusOn 10 November 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority (“BCA”) launched a public consultation on new draft leniency guidelines (the “Draft Guidelines”…
Lire plusA lot has been written about two recent court cases related to Facebook. The first one is the decision of 6 October in the case of the Austrian studen…
Lire plusOn 30 September 2015, the Competition College of the Belgian Competition Authority ("the College") imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on the press group San…
Lire plusOn 21 October 2015, the European Commission decided that a tax ruling between Starbucks and the Netherlands should be considered illegal state aid. As…
Lire plusOn 26 October 2015, the Belgian federal legislature repealed the rules governing announcements of price reductions, in order to align Belgian law to E…
Lire plusOn 6 October 2015, the General Court ("GC") dismissed an application brought by Corporación Empresarial de Materiales de Construcción (formerly known …
Lire plusFollowing taxi associations’ protests and legal action, Uber services have been restricted in, among other countries, Belgium, France, Germany and Ita…
Lire plusImagine: the head of the legal department knocks at your door and asks if he can come in for a minute. Without waiting for your response, he enters an…
Lire plusOn 22 October 2015, the Court of Justice rendered a judgment on appeal against the Commission decision in the Heat Stabilisers cartels (Commission v A…
Lire plusOn 15 July 2015, the European Commission imposed fines of up to €49 million on cargo train operators Express Interfracht (Austrian railway incumbent Ö…
Lire plusOn 6 October 2015, the Court of Justice ruled under which circumstances Post Danmark's rebate scheme for bulk advertising qualified as an abuse of a d…
Lire plusThe Belgian law on pre-contractual information does not grant bank and insurance agents a right to pre-contractual information. The Belgian Constituti…
Lire plusOn 16 October 2015, the Belgian Parliament voted a law modifying the Belgian Code of Economic Law. The modifications should enter into force on 1 Nove…
Lire plusThe Belgian High Court seems to be allowing for the severability of non-competition clauses. Instead of completely setting aside an invalid non-compet…
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