Nevertheless, the SAM reforms mark a shift in approach. The new and revised regulations and guidelines seek to provide wider exemptions and focus on the most distortive aid. The focus has also shifted from ex-ante to ex-post control, with greater emphasis on more detailed and comprehensive analysis for the larger, …read more
May 27, 2014
Earlier today, the Competition Bureau announced that a Canadian telemarketer has been sentenced, following a guilty plea, to an 18 month prison sentence in a misleading advertising and deceptive telemarketing case. According to the Bureau, the telemarketer was engaged in deceptive marketing of online …read more
One of the distinct and unique features of European antitrust law is (and has always been since its enactment in 1957) that the rules on restraints of trade and monopolization are complemented by a set of provisions, as embedded in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which, …read more
Chillin’Competition has encountered its first serious legal problem after a third party requested us to remove some content.
As usual readers will remember, we took particular interest in the French endives cartel case. A number of posts were devoted to endives (the best troublesome ones are here and …read more