On 4 June 2026, the Swedish Patent and Market Court delivered a highly anticipated ruling in the case between the Swedish Competition Authority (the “SCA”) and the digital healthcare provider Min Doktor. The court annulled the SCA’s decision imposing a SEK 6.5 million (approx. EUR 600,000) competiti...
On 19 March 2026, the Swedish Competition Authority (the “SCA”) issued a decision finding that Mavera AB (“Mavera”, now rebranded as Verisk Analytics AB), an intermediary provider of insurance medical advisory services, had abused its dominant position. The SCA found that Mav...
Today, the Swedish Parliament adopted a significant package of competition law reforms aimed at strengthening competition in both the private and public sectors. The new rules, which will enter into force already on 1 August 2026, introduce three major changes to Swedish competition law: a new compe...
On 24 March 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ECJ” or the “Court”) delivered its judgment in C-767/23, Remling, raising the bar for national courts of last instance when refusing to refer questions for a preliminary ruling. The Court makes clear that such refusals can no longer...
On 7 March 2026, the Swedish Government submitted the bill “New tools to strengthen competition in the private and public sectors” (prop. 2025/26:203; the “Bill”) to the Swedish Parliament. The Bill contains proposals for a new act on public commercial activities (the “Act”) and significant amendmen...
On 17 March 2026, the Swedish Government submitted the bill “New tools to strengthen competition in the private and public sectors” (prop. 2025/26:203; the “Bill”) to the Swedish Parliament. The Bill contains proposals for a new act on public commercial activities (the “Act”) and significant amendme...
On 17 March 2026, the Swedish Government submitted the bill “New tools to strengthen competition in the private and public sectors” (prop. 2025/26:203; the “Bill”) to the Swedish Parliament. The Bill contains proposals for a new act on public commercial activities (the “Act”) and significant amendme...
On 12 February the Swedish Government referred three major proposed changes to the Swedish Competition Act to the Council on Legislation. The Government has largely endorsed the recommendations of a previous inquiry (SOU 2025:22), as well as additional amendments to the merger control rules proposed...
On 9 January 2026, the European Commission (the “Commission”) adopted new guidelines (the “Guidelines”) explaining how it intends to apply and enforce the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (the “FSR”), a regime designed to address distortions of competition in the EU internal market caused by subsidies g...
On 18 December 2025, the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency (Sw. “Myndigheten för civilt försvar”, “MCF”, previously called MSB) released its draft regulation defining which societally important businesses are encompassed in the Swedish foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening act (2023:...
On 11 December 2025, the European Council (the “Council”) and representatives of the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement (the “Agreement”) on the revision of the Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) Regulation (2019/452). The Agreement aims to e.g. harmonise FDI screening acro...
The Retriever/Infomedia transaction illustrates how the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU” or the “Court”) judgment in Towercast has expanded the enforcement tools available to competition authorities when merger control thresholds are not met. In Sweden, the Swedish Competition Auth...