In its decision in CD Tondela and Others (Case C‑133/24), delivered on 30 April 2026, the Fifth Chamber of the Court of Justice has handed down its first substantive ruling on a no‑poach agreement under Article 101(1) TFEU. The case has been waited on with...
On Meta/WhatsApp, the AI access dispute, and a decade of optimistic clearances now corrected through Article 102 I. A second charge sheet, twelve years late Earlier this week, the European Commission sent Meta a fresh Statement of Objections in the WhatsApp/AI access investigation matter. The document is...
Există situații în care realitatea depășește orice fantezie. Cazul operatorilor de servicii arhivistice din România este una dintre ele — o succesiune de trei lovituri pe care Statul le-a dat unor întreprinderi private cărora le ceruse mai întâi, tot el, să preia o obligație publică...
Există investigații ale Consiliului Concurenței care, privite din exterior, ridică mai multe întrebări decât răspunsuri. Nu neapărat despre vinovăție sau nevinovăție — aceasta este o chestiune de probă și de drept, care se va tranșa în timp. Ci despre altceva: despre logica instituțională a unei autorități publice...
On 4 March 2026, at the OECD Competition Open Day in Paris, I followed Philippe Aghion – the 2025 Nobel laureate in economics – delivering the keynote speech that opened the eighth edition of this flagship event. The message was, in essence, familiar: competition drives...
Unul din cele mai mediatizate cazuri din istoria Consiliului Concurenței - sancțiunile aplicate câtorva edituri și două mari lanțuri de librării - are toate indicațiile unei erori de apreciere, unei erori de standard de probă și, nu în ultimul rând, a unei erori privind consecințele...
The word ”cartel” in itself has automatically a negative connotation, for good reasons. People associate this word with one of the worst wrongdoings in business, which annuls the competition on the merits, able to maximise efficiency, and so it affects consumers. Perhaps the best known cartels...
The scope of this contribution is to argue that the enforcement of the European Union competition rules requires a significant overhaul with respect to the judicial phase of this process. Since the first years of the European Communities the enforcement of the competition rules has been...
Pioneer, avant-garde, transformationalist - Eleanor M. Fox is regularly described in these terms by the manifold antitrust practitioners who have been influenced by her industry-shaping scholarly work. Over the course of an extraordinary career, she has helped establish a coherent set of competition law and...
Some consideration on the ”fresh” (so-to-speak, for a case initiated in 2009) Google Shopping case at the General Court of the European Union, which ”largely dismisses” the request for annulment lodged by Google - but not all of it. Due to the fact that it...