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 usOn 13 September 2016, Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission ("CCPC") announced that it had issued: (a) witness summonses; and (b) information requests to various parties in the motor insurance sector in Ireland.
EU, Competition & ProcurementEU, Irish and UK competition law prohibit price-fixing between competitors in relation to goods and services. This prohibition applies in whatever way such goods or services are sold to customers. In an important restatement on 7 November, the UK antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), announced that it had launched a campaign to alert online sellers of goods and services
EU, Competition & ProcurementThe Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has handed down its decision following a request for a preliminary ruling from the Danish Supreme Court. In Finn Frogne A/S v Rigspolitiet ved Center for Beredskabskommunikation (C 549/14), the CJEU held that the terms of a settlement agreement can constitute an illegal modification to a public contract which therefore would require a new tendering
EU, Competition & ProcurementDr Vincent Power of A&L Goodbody spoke at the Public Affairs Ireland Brexit conference on 21 October 2016. He spoke about the likely impact of Brexit on public administration, government and international relations from the legal perspective.
BrexitArticle 50 is fast-becoming the most quoted but least read legal provision in the contemporary world.
EU, Competition & ProcurementEU Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, gave an interesting perspective on mergers in the mobile phone market in a speech to the Forum for EU-US Legal-Economic Affairs in Paris on 15 September 2016.
EU, Competition & ProcurementDr Vincent Power, Partner and Head of A&L Goodbody's EU, Competition & Procurement Group provides an overview of State Aid law and policy in Ireland. This article was first published in State Aid 2016 by Getting the Deal Through.
EU, Competition & ProcurementWhile each company and organisation has its own specific needs relating to Brexit, there are eleven key questions, from the legal perspective, which every CEO, General Counsel and executive should ask. These questions should be asked periodically throughout what is going to be a long Brexit process spanning not only the negotiation of the exit arrangements but also its implementation process which
BrexitWhen the EU and UK diplomats eventually begin talks on the post-Brexit trading relationship, the structure and possibly outcome of those talks will, at least in part, be affected by the legal basis on which the EU negotiates trade agreements with third countries. While Ireland will seek to actively engage with the EU institutions to outline issues directly affecting Ireland
BrexitThe European Commission's Directorate General for Competition has published a very useful document setting out statistics on EU cartel investigations. The document includes even the recent Trucks case which involved the highest ever individual fines (on Daimler and DAF).
EU, Competition & ProcurementVincent Power, Catherine Duffy and Eileen Roberts, Partners at A&L Goodbody, provide an overview of shipping law, the shipping industry, regulation and the legislative framework in Ireland.
EU, Competition & ProcurementWith the current State aid issues regarding recapitalisation of banks in Italy and the on-going post-Financial crisis rescue of banks across the EU (including Ireland), the Court of Justice has given a preliminary ruling following a reference from a Slovenian court which queried the compatibility of the 2013 Commission Communication on aid to the banking sector in the context of burden-sharing
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