EU case law 2025. What did I miss?
Dec 2025
In this article, we consider some of the key decisions of the EU Court in 2025.
Read MoreCompetition (Amendment) Act 2022
Be prepared and up to speed on the significant and wide-ranging new powers of investigation, intervention and enforcement being given to the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), under the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022. The main changes will:
- for the first time, allow the CCPC to directly impose administrative / civil fines for breaches of competition law
- provide a leniency programme for breaches of competition law
- provide additional powers of surveillance to the CCPC to investigate certain criminal offences
- change the merger control rules, including by granting the CCPC a "call in" power for certain "below threshold" deals to be notified.