Author: 21st Century Competition

European Commission – State aid: Commission approves regional aid map 2014-2020 for Bulgaria

European Commission Press release Brussels, 25 June 2014 The European Commission has approved Bulgaria’s map for granting state aid between 2014 and 2020 within the framework of the new regional aid guidelines adopted by the Commission in June 2013 (see IP/13/569). …read more

European Commission – State aid: Commission approves €400 million aid to STMicroelectronics for the Nano2017 research programme

European Commission Press release Brussels, 25 June 2014 The European Commission has decided that aid by France to STMicroelectronics (ST) for the development of new technologies in the nanoelectronics sector is in line with EU rules on state aid. …read more

European Commission – State aid: Commission opens in-depth investigation into compensation to operator of Polish A2 motorway

European Commission Press release Brussels, 25 June 2014 The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to verify whether compensation paid by the Polish state to Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. (AWSA), the operator of part of the Polish A2 motorway, was in line with EU state aid rules. …read more

CASL (Anti-spam Law) & Social Media – What’s the Deal With Social? (Canadian Competition and Regulatory Law)

June 24, 2014

Over the past several months I’ve begun to increasingly turn my mind both to Canada’s new anti-spam legislation (CASL) and its potential application to social media in particular.

In general, CASL will, once largely in force July 1st, create a mandatory advance express consent regime for commercial electronic messages …read more