Twenty-one sausage manufacturers in Germany were fined a total of $460 million after competition authorities found evidence the companies had colluded to fix sausage prices, reports say.
The nation’s Federal Cartel Office announced the sanctions on Tuesday and added that 33 individuals had also been penalized in the case. Herta, Wiesenhof …read more
On May 29, 2012, Law n. 12,529/11—the New Brazilian Competition Law—entered into force, after being enacted as a result of more than seven years of discussions within the Brazilian National Congress. The New Law superseded the first effective competition statute of the country, Law 8,884/94, enacted in 1994 concurrently with …read more
In some previous posts we’ve commented on the interface between the competition rules and data protection/privacy regulation, which is one of the trendiest topics in international antitrust these days.
As you may recall, the European Data Protection Supervisor recently held a high level workshop (high level but for my intervention on …read more
On 9 July 2014, the European Commission published a White Paper setting out proposals to amend the EU merger control system. The proposed reform of the system is the most significant in the last 10 years and could have an impact on many corporate …read more