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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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10GenAutomotive e concorrenza: le nuove sfide del mondo digitaleCosì 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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5DicConvention cites - amendements aux annexes et nouvelles resolutions et decisionsÀ la suite de la 18e session de la Conférence des Parties à la CITES («CdP18») d’août dernier, le 26 novembre 2019, de nouvelles annexes et de nouvelles suites de résolutions et décisions sont entrées en vigueur.
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15OttIrene Picciano entra in qualità di of counselPortolano Cavallo annuncia l’ingresso di Irene Picciano nello Studio: in qualità di of counsel, l’avvocata si occuperà principalmente di concorrenza e di product, trade e corporate compliance.
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12SetExcessive 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.Articolo inserito in: Regolamentare
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25LugIn 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.Articolo inserito in: Regolamentare
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4GiuE-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.Articolo inserito in: Regolamentare
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9AprItaly introduces a legislative ban on price-parity clauses in the booking sectorThis material was first published by Thomson Reuters as Enzo Marasà, “Italy introduces a legislative ban on price-parity clauses in the booking sector”, (2018) 39(4) E.C.L.R. 196 and is reproduced by agreement with the Publishers.Articolo inserito in: Regolamentare