Significant and wide-ranging new powers of investigation, intervention and enforcement are proposed to be given to the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), under the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022.
Contact usA case involving alleged bid-rigging by some local bus operators is scheduled for 2025. Read more here.
EU, Competition & ProcurementThe mandatory notification regime under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (the FSR) went live on 12 October 2023.
Corporate & M&AAnna-Marie Curran, Partner looks at the draft Green Public Procurement Strategy and Action Plan
Climate ActionThe Irish Government has published its Autumn Legislative Programme. What is in the Programme which would be relevant to those impacted by European Union and Competition Law?
EU, Competition & ProcurementSince 1 October 2023, the OJ has changed.
EU, Competition & ProcurementAs environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals become a growing business priority, competition law is, in some ways, adapting to encourage or facilitate collaboration between competitors that promote these objectives.
ESG & SustainabilityOn 15 September 2023, it was announced that Brian McHugh has been appointed as the new Chair of Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
EU, Competition & ProcurementIreland’s Competition (Amendment) Act 2022 (Amendment Act) will very largely come into operation on 27 September 2023.
Corporate & M&AThe European Commission published Guidance in March 2021 in which it indicated that it intended in certain circumstances to encourage and accept Article 22 referrals where the referring Member State(s) did not have the power to review the transactions concerned under national rules.
EU, Competition & ProcurementThe Competition (Amendment) Act 2022 (Act) is a landmark statute which will introduce significant changes to the Irish competition law regime, including the ability for civil fines to be imposed in respect of breaches of competition law, an updated leniency regime and amended merger control provisions.
EU, Competition & ProcurementA new EU regulatory regime, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), will be commencing shortly. It enables the European Commission to scrutinise companies making certain acquisitions, engaging in public procurement, or otherwise carrying out economic activities in the EU which have benefited from non-EU subsidies.
EU, Competition & ProcurementOn 10 May 2023, the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court) published its judgment in the joint decisions of Cases T-34/21 Ryanair v Commission and T-87/21 Condor Flugdienst v Commission (Lufthansa; COVID-19).
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