Clifford Chance
Italian Competition Newsletter - 3/2025
12 May 2025
In this issue, dedicated to the ICA's decisions for the month of March 2025:
- Merger control: the ICA clears Italgas's acquisition of 2i Rete Gas subject to commitments
- Unfair Commercial Practices: the ICA Fines Shiseido for Misleading Advertising of Sunscreen Products
- Unfair Commercial Practices: the ICA accepts the set of commitments submitted by Otis Servizi S.r.l.
- Unfair Commercial Practices: the ICA Fines CoopCulture and six tour operators in relation to Colosseum Archaeological Park ticketing services
- Unfair Commercial Practices: ICA Fines SocialWebsite, DLM Stelledoro, and Filarco Comprafollowers for Selling Fake Engagement and Reviews
In this issue, dedicated to the Administrative Judiciary's rulings in antitrust and consumer protection matters for the month of March 2025:
- The Council of State finds the revocation application filed by Vodafone, Fastweb, and Wind against ICA's fine for anticompetitive agreement related to monthly billing repricing to be inadmissible
- The Council of State Upholds ICA's fine against Vinted for misleading advertising
- TAR Lazio dismisses appeal by S/D Siena Distribuzione, Zamparelli, and Zeta against the ICA’s conditional clearance of Mondadori’s sale of a 51% stake in Press-Di to Artoni Group and SRH
