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Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) hat am 10. November 2011 den Entwurf der 8. GWB-Novelle veröffentlicht. Der Entwurf basiert auf dem im August 2011 vorgestellten Eckpunktepapier des BMWi, welches die wettbewerbspolitischen...

Headlines in this issue: HOT TOPICS EU: Commission adopts new guidelines for cooperation between competitors. SUPERMARKETS/GROCERIES RETAILING France: Competition Authority recommends action to address food retail concentration. Germany: EDEKA/trinkgut...

China's National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce have issued a swathe of new rules on price and monopoly related abuses, which will come into effect on 1 February 2011. These long-awaited rules will guide...

The UK government announced major reforms of the UK competition regime on 15 March 2012. In the following three videos, partners from Clifford Chance's London Antitrust Practice explain and comment on the changes and their impact on businesses in three key areas.   Reform...

The UK Government has announced its plans for reform of the UK competition regime.  The biggest change will be the merger of the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission to create a new, powerful single competition authority. In addition,...

Clifford Chance provides an immediate, structured, co-ordinated and multi-jurisdictional response to cartel investigations. With cartel fines frequently running into hundreds of millions of euros, increased cooperation between regulators, widespread application...

On 1 June 2010, the new motor vehicle block exemption came into force, bringing with it a complex patchwork of regulatory instruments and guidance. This briefing has been updated to reflect further guidance issued by the European Commission in August 2012.

In this issue: European Union Commission fines freight forwarders EUR 169 million. The European Commission has fined 14 groups of companies a total of EUR 169 million for price fixing in the international air freight forwarding sector. Commission fines...

Editors: Alex Nourry, Chris Worrall, Christopher Duff and Chandralekha Ghosh In this issue: European Union ECJ dismisses copper tubes cartels appeals. Commission settles cartel with refrigeration compressor producers. Commission opens formal...

The Antitrust Review is a bi-monthly commentary on important issues in the antitrust arena, written by our Global Antitrust Group lawyers. Headlines below from this issue: European Union Aegean Airlines / Olympic Air: Commission blocks merger.  ...