The long-awaited Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Bill) has now been laid before Parliament. This new legislation, when enacted, represents the most significant reform of competition and consumer protection law in the UK in recent years. It will implement policy proposals which have been in the making for several years.
The long-awaited Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Bill) has now been laid before Parliament. This new legislation, when enacted, represents the most significant reform of competition and consumer protection law in the UK in recent years. It will implement policy proposals which have been in the making for several years.
On 24 January 2023, Shepherd and Wedderburn are delighted to host the Scottish Competition Forum event “An evening on Sustainability, with Sarah Cardell” (CEO of the Competition and Markets Authority) in our Edinburgh office. If you are interested in attending the event, you can register here.
On 1 January 2023, the Competition Act 1998 (Research and Development Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022 (R&D BEO) and the Competition Act (Specialisation Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022 (Specialisation Agreements BEO) came into force in the UK, replacing the retained EU regulations which expired on 31 December 2022.
This article summarises the policy background and key changes.
2023 will see a raft of UK legal and regulatory reform which will impact a range of organisations. In this article, Scott Rodger and Natasha Durkin from our Regulation and Markets team take a look at what is set to be a busy year of legal change ahead for competition and regulatory compliance.
In an opinion issued this morning, Advocate General Rantos has proposed that the European Court of Justice should set aside the 2020 judgment of the General Court (which rejected in large part the International Skating Union’s appeal against the EU Commission’s 2017 infringement decision on its treatment of third-party organised speed skating events) and refer the case back the General Court for reconsideration.
The request to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling in this case concerned the interpretation of Article 102 TFEU and provisions of Directive 2001/14/EC (the Directive) on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure.