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The European Commission is investigating whether Apple’s arrangements with book publishers for the sale of e-books amount to anti-competitive agreements contrary to Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning...
OFT investigates pharma sector patent settlement agreements
The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is investigating patent litigation agreements relating to paroxetine. Paroxetine is a medicine used in the treatment of disorders such as depression and...
Chiquita plays competition law regime leniency card successfully again as European Commission goes bananas over PIG price fixing
The European Commission has fined Pacific Fruit nearly €9 million for co-ordinating prices with rival banana importer, Chiquita, over a nine month period in respect of imports into Portugal, Italy and...
ECJ says ban on Internet sales took selective distribution system outside of block exemption protection in EU competition law – Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetique v French Competition Board, European Court of Justice
PFDC makes and markets cosmetics and personal care products under certain brands. It requires sales to be made in a physical space in the presence of a qualified pharmacist. The French Competition Board...
OFT points to successful impact of first abuse of dominance fines under Competition Act in Napp Pharmaceuticals case
The Competition Act 1998 came into force in 2000. Under it, the Office of Fair Trading can impose large fines and declare void arrangements that are either agreements between undertakings whose object...
European competition law defence needs to be supported by detailed evidence to avoid contract breach – A Nelson v Guna, High Court
Nelsons supplied Bach Flower Remedies. Guna had been its distributor in Italy. Their distribution agreement had included several restrictions including a ban on Guna from advertising for orders from outside...
That won’t come out in the wash – EC fines Unilever and Proctor & Gamble €315m
Following a European Commission investigation suitably entitled ‘Purity’, Unilever and Proctor & Gamble, the consumer product companies, have been fined €315 million for fixing the price of washing...
It’s game over for Nintendo as it loses to Commission in anti-competitive distribution arrangements case – Activision Blizzard v European Commission, European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice has upheld a General Court ruling in favour of a European Commission fine of €168m in 2002 for a breach by Nintendo and some of its European distributors of Article 81 of...
ECJ advised that pubs allowed to show Premier League football from foreign broadcasters
Juliane Kokott, one of the eight Advocates General to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has given her opinion that pubs are not prohibited from showing live Premier League football from foreign broadcasters...
OFT investigating agreements for online book pricing
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether e-book pricing agreements breach UK competition law. The Chapter I Prohibition of the Competition Act 1998 prohibits agreements which have as their object...