september 6, 2024
Earlier this week the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) published its long-awaited judgment in the joined cases C-611/22 P Illumina v Commission and C-625/22 P Grail v Commission concerning the European Commission’s powers to review mergers that fall under the thresholds of both EU...
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augusti 21, 2024
On 1 August 2024, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Sw. Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap) published its revised guidelines (MSBFS 2024:8) listing types of essential services that fall under the scope of the Swedish Act on Foreign Direct Investments (the “FDI Act”). The revised guide...
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mars 28, 2024
The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (the “FSR”), which is applicable in the EU since 12 July 2023, allows the European Commission (the “Commission”) to investigate and to take action against companies that receive financial support from non-EU governments deemed to distort competition within the EU sin...
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mars 27, 2024
The impacts of sanctions have increased during the last few years and not the least the ones targeting Russia. Most companies, regardless of where their manufacturing takes place or where their suppliers or customers are located, need to consider the impact of sanctions when entering into all sorts...
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februari 7, 2024
On 26 January 2024, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published a report, providing an overview of the enforcement of the EU competition rules by the Commission and the National Competition Authorities (“NCA”) in the pharmaceutical sector during the period 2018 – 2022. The scrutiny of...
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juli 27, 2023
On 4 July 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a Grand Chamber ruling affirming the national competition authorities’ power to investigate privacy breaches when conducting abuse of dominance investigations under Article 102 TFEU. Big tech firms will now have extra incentives to...
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maj 24, 2023
Last week, on 16 May 2023, the Swedish Government presented a legislative bill on foreign direct investments (the FDI Act) to the Swedish Parliament. The FDI Act, which is suggested to enter into force on 1 December 2023 significantly expands the Government’s current powers to scrutinize foreign inv...
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mars 21, 2023
Sweden is one of the few EU Member States which does not have a stand-alone foreign direct investment (“FDI”) regime. This is about to change. On 16 March 2023, the Swedish Government presented a draft legislative bill on foreign direct investments (the FDI Act). The FDI Act, which is suggested to e...
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januari 19, 2023
The Swedish Government has recently adopted a Governmental Bill with a proposal of how the European Accessibility Directive, adopted in 2019, is to be transposed into Swedish law. The new rules require that certain key products, such as computers, smartphones, ATMs, ticketing and check-in machines,...
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november 17, 2022
The area of EU and competition law is in constant motion. Both the EU legislators and courts make sure that this field of law is developing at high speed. It is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to keep up to date with the latest developments in this area. At the same time, many of these dev...
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