11 June 2020
Poland adopts restrictions on certain foreign investments
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/poland/poland-adopts-restrictions-on-certain-foreign-investments

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the looming economic crisis, Poland has recently adopted legislation, under which transactions involving certain Polish companies and non-EEA investors would be subject to a new ...

13 October 2020
Retail Price Maintenance in the EU
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/retail-price-maintenance-in-the-eu

The European Commission concluded in its 2017 Final Report on the e-commerce sector that pricing restrictions are generally the most widespread contractual restrictions. Manufacturers and retailers have been using ...

13 October 2020
Big data in verticals - the next big investigation in Hungary?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/hungary/big-data-in-verticals-the-next-big-investigation-in-hungary

Issues around Big Data and access to data as an essential input are rapidly gaining importance in vertical relationships. This was made clear in the Commission’s recently published evaluation of stakeholder input in the ...

07 February 2018
Collaborating with your competitors: six steps to minimise the challenges of competition law in the aerospace, defence and security sector
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/global/collaborating-with-your-competitors-the-challenges-of-competition-law-in-the-ads-sector

Under increasing pressure to collaborate with competitors, or feeling they must do so to innovate at the rate needed to compete, the Aerospace, Defence and Security (ADS) industries find themselves faced with a ...

17 December 2020
State aid and sustainability: what does the future hold for aviation?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/state-aid-and-sustainability-what-does-the-future-hold-for-aviation

As hard-hit airlines around the world fight to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, many are increasingly relying on state aid for survival. These governments are seeking to find ways to nudge national infrastructure towards ...

20 January 2021
Collecting societies OSA and INTERGRAM fined for forcing providers of accommodation services to pay copyright levies
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2021/czech-republic/collecting-societies-osa-and-intergram-fined-for-forcing-providers-of-accommodation-services

The Czech Office for the Protection of Competition ("Office") published a press release (without publishing the full decisions yet) regarding the rejection of the appeal of the collecting society for music authors’ ...

23 September 2016
E-commerce under scrutiny: European Commission issues its Preliminary Report in the e-commerce sector inquiry
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2016/global/e-commerce-under-scrutiny-european-commission-issues-its-preliminary-report

01 April 2020
Increased leeway for horizontal and vertical co-operation in the EU
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/increased-leeway-for-horizontal-and-vertical-cooperation

Existing competition rules are broad enough to also cater for extraordinary times such as the COVID-19 crisis. The EU as well as the network of European competition authorities are now explicitly acknowledging that ...

19 September 2019
Competitive Edge: Competition & EU law news - September 2019
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/competitive-edge-sept-2019

Keeping you up to date on Competition & EU Law developments in Europe and beyond

29 August 2018
Blockchain technology and competition law - issues to be considered
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/global/blockchain-technology-and-competition-law-issues-to-be-considered

Blockchain has been labelled the single most important innovation since the advent of the internet and many foresee that this information technology has the ability to change the way business is carried out in the ...