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28AprCovid-19 and cooperation between competitors: the European Commission and AGCM’s communications on emergency cooperation between competitorsThe AGCM must follow the guidelines set out in the Communication even when assessing forms of cooperation between companies in purely local markets, for which supply from abroad is negligible.
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22AprPrice gouging in Italy: is the Italian Competition Authority overstretching its consumer powers to exercise control over price increases related to the COVID-19 emergency?Price gouging cannot constitute per se a breach of the Italian Consumer Code, but it may raise the standard of diligence to discharge firms’ information obligations and aggravate a separate misleading conduct
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18MarCOVID19 – Impact on Antitrust and consumer protectionThe COVID-19 outbreak is impacting the enforcement of antitrust and consumer protection rules in Italy and across the EU. Most affected rules range from those on State aid to control of concentrations, and those regarding anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance and unfair commercial practices.
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10JanAutomotive and competition: the new challenges of the digital worldCosì come tutti i settori industriali “tradizionali” anche l'industria dell’automotive non è esente dalle molte sfide tecnologiche provenienti dal mondo digitale
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5DecCites convention – amendments to the appendices and new decisions and resolutionsFollowing the 18th CITES meeting of the Conference of the Parties (“CoP18”) of last August 2019, on 26th November 2019 New CITES Appendices and new suites of Resolutions and Decisions entered into force.
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15OctIrene Picciano joins the firm as of counselPortolano Cavallo announces the arrival of Irene Picciano as a member of the Firm: as of counsel, Ms. Picciano will be mainly responsible for competition and product, trade and corporate compliance matters.
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12SepExcessive pricing abuses in the pharmaceuticals sector: complying with a cease-and-desist order. The Italian case of Aspen v AGCMThis article first appeared on the website of the Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee of the Legal Practice Division of the International Bar Association, and is reproduced by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK. © International Bar Association.Article filed under: Regulatory
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25JulIn a first, the EU Commission fines four consumer electronics manufacturers EUR 111m for Resale Price MaintenanceYesterday the European Commission imposed fines for EUR 111 million in aggregate to four consumer electronics manufacturers for fixing distributors’ resale prices of their products on the internet, a commercial practice commonly referred to as Resale Price Maintenance (or RPM). RPM is a conduct by which suppliers restrict, contractually or through other behavior, the ability of retailers to freely set the resale price of the supplied products.Article filed under: Regulatory
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4JunE-Competitions Antitrust Case Laws e-BulletinOn 20 December 2017, the Italian Competition Authority (or “ICA”) issued a rare infringement decision in an abuse of dominance investigation against the publisher of a local daily newspaper (“SIE”), which refused to deal with a player (the “complainant” or “Euregio”) in the downstream local market for daily media intelligence services.Article filed under: Regulatory
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