Article 102

Antitrust, Competition, Dominance, European Commission, Market definition

(Baker McKenzie, Belgium)/ /Leave a comment

On 15 May 2012, Advocate-General Mazák delivered his long awaited Opinion to the European Court of Justice in the long-running AstraZeneca litigation. Practitioners hoping for an opinion that tempered some of the more extreme dicta of the General Court were to be disappointed. Advocate-General Mazák recommended that the General Court’s judgment be upheld in its…

Abuse of dominance, Dominance, European Court of Justice, Rebates

(Baker McKenzie, Belgium)/ /1 Comment

That the ECJ rejected Tomra’s appeal was unsurprising. The strictures of the EU case law on illegal rebates for dominant companies is well known. The case law of the Court takes a near per se approach to condemning any rebate scheme linked to exclusivity, substantial volume purchases or stretch targets, taking the view that by…