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...
European competition authorities have started to examine how so-called category management or category captain roles may influence market dynamics and potentially restrict competition. Recent enforcement activity reflects a shift towards investigating and addressing more subtle forms of potential fo...
On 14 October 2025, the European Commission (the “Commission”) issued fines totalling over €157M to the three fashion companies Gucci, Chloé and Loewe for restricting resellers’ pricing independence. The practices involved so-called resale price maintenance (“RPM”), i.e. the companies prevente...
The Council of the European Union (the “EU”) adopted on 23 October 2025 its 19th package of sanctions against Russia. Please find our previous blog posts on the sanctions here, here, here, here and here. Russia’s energy sector – A new ban on import of LNG and further sanctions against the shadow fle...
Private competition enforcement in Sweden has recently experienced an awakening. The Swedish Patent and Market Court (“PMC”) is currently handling several high-value damages claims and actions for injunctions against alleged competition law infringements. The ongoing proceedings span a wide range of...
The European Commission (the “Commission”) has accepted binding commitments from Microsoft to address competition concerns regarding the tying of Teams with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 productivity suites, following complaints from competitors and a preliminary finding of abuse of dominance. Mi...
On 4 September 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ECJ” or the “Court”) delivered its preliminary ruling in Case C-21/24, Nissan Iberia. The case addressed the starting point of limitation periods for private antitrust damages actions based on decisions of nat...
The European Commission (the “Commission”) has broken new ground by imposing fines totalling approximately EUR 172,000 on Eurofield SAS and its parent company Unanime Sport SAS for providing incomplete information during an antitrust investigation. This marks the first time the Commission has exerci...