Tag: Germany
Germany Hits Apple With Antitrust Complaint Over New iPhone Software
Apple has been accused of antitrust abuse in Germany as it prepares to roll out a new version of its iPhone software. A complaint was...
UK, Australia & Germany To Work Together On Merger Control
The Bundeskartellamt, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have agreed on a joint statement on...
Section 19a of the Reformed German Competition Act: A (Too) Powerful...
Targeted at Big Tech, Section 19a of the Competition Act, Germany’s new antitrust tool for dealing with large digital platforms, rebalances power in favor...
New Enforcement Tool Against Abusive Market Conduct
By: Lars Mesenbrink and Julius Schradin (Antitrust Watch)
In a nutshell:
What’s new?Introduction of the Concept of Intermediation Power: A dominant position can as of now also result from...
Germany Seeks Deal With Biden on Controversial Pipeline
Germany wants to make a deal with the US in order to complete the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas project that has caused friction...
A Game Changer for Germany’s Competition Practice: Compliance Defense and Sweeping...
By Christian Ritz1 & Dr. Hubertus Weber (Hogan Lovells)2
On January 19, 2021, the 10th amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz...
Happy New GWB!
By: Philipp Bongartz (D'Kart)
With the votes of the Grand Coalition of CDU, CSU and SPD as well as the Greens, an impressive move was...
Germany Deepens Facebook & Oculus Probe
Germany’s antitrust regulator announced on Thursday, January 28, that it was extending the scope of its abuse proceedings against Facebook related to the links...
Systems Competition – China’s Challenge to the Competition Order: Do we...
By Dr. Thorsten Käseberg & Dr. Sophie Gappa (German Federal Government)1
I. Introduction: A Systemic Challenge to the Competition Order
The European Union, and Germany in...
Parallels and Diverging Approaches in the UK and German Supreme Courts’...
In this paper, I discuss the German Federal Court of Justice’s decision in Sisvel v. Haier and the UK Supreme Court decision in Unwired...
