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On January 19, 2021, the amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition ("ARC") has entered into force. In addition to the significant adjustments to the ARC regarding...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Yesterday, the 10th amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen – "GWB") entered into force, and with it the most substantial overhaul of German competition law in a long time. The new law contains a number of significant adjustments of the draft that was initially put to vote. This alert provides a quick overview of the new law’s most far-reaching features. A. Companies with paramount cross-market significance A novel regulatory approach targets a limited number o...
predatory pricing, exclusive dealing, or tying and bundling, even if the company is not dominant. Processing competitively relevant data of third parties (both B2C and B2B data) in a way that appreciably increases market entry barriers (as well as requiring third parties to accept terms and conditions that permit such processing). Denying or impeding interoperability of products or services or denying portability of data to hinder competition—conduct identified by the German legislature as often leading to lock-in effects that may tend to exclude inter-platform competition. Not pr...
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Europe's first legislative proposal addressing the digital economy and related competition issues is one step closer to becoming a reality: In September 2020, the German government approved the highly anticipated 10th amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC). While some revisions arise from EU Directive 2019/1 to strengthen the competition authorities of the EU Member States (ECN+ Directive), the main objective of the proposal—also called the "Digitalization Act...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Europe’s first legislative proposal addressing the digital economy and related competition issues is one step closer to becoming a reality: In September 2020, the German government approved the highly anticipated 10th amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC). While some revisions arise from EU Directive 2019/1 to strengthen the competition authorities of the EU Member States (ECN+ Directive), the main objective of the proposal—also called the “Digitalization Act”—is to create a new antitrust fram...