Search Results

Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 18 April 2024.
Heureka Group a.s. v Google LLC.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Městský soud v Praze.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 102 TFEU – Principle of effectiveness – Actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions – Directive 2014/104/EU – Late transposition of the directive – Temporal application – Article 10 – Limitation period – Detailed rules for the dies a quo – Cessation of the infringement – Knowledge of the information necessary for bringing an action for damages – Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of the summary of the European Commission’s decision finding an infringement of the competition rules – Binding effect of a Commission decision that is not yet final – Suspension or interruption of the limitation period for the duration of the Commission’s investigation or until the date when its decision becomes final.
Case C-605/21.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2024:324

Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 December 2023.
European Superleague Company, SL v Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA) and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Madrid.
Request for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Internal market – Rules introduced by international sports associations – Professional football – Private law entities vested with regulatory, control and decision-making powers, and the power to impose sanctions – Rules on prior approval of competitions, on the participation of football clubs and players in those competitions, and also on the exploitation of commercial and media rights related to those competitions – Parallel pursuit of economic activities – Organisation and marketing of competitions – Exploitation of related commercial and media rights – Article 101(1) TFEU – Decision by an association of undertakings adversely affecting competition – Concepts of anticompetitive ‘object’ and ‘effect’ – Exemption under Article 101(3) TFEU – Conditions – Article 102 TFEU – Abuse of dominant position – Justification – Conditions – Article 56 TFEU – Restrictions on the freedom to provide services – Justification – Conditions – Burden of proof.
Case C-333/21.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:1011

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 25 October 2023 (Extracts).
Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD and Others v European Commission.
Competition – Abuse of a dominant position – Internal market in natural gas – Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU – Regulated market – Definition of the relevant market – Romanian Transit Pipeline 1 – Holder of an exclusive right to use the Romanian Pipeline 1 – Refusal to grant access – Public supply obligation – State action defence – Transmission system operator – Storage system operator – Anticompetitive strategy – Exclusionary effects – Single and continuous infringement – Rights of the defence.
Case T-136/19.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2023:669

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 16 March 2023.
Towercast v Autorité de la concurrence and Ministère de l’Économie.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d'appel de Paris.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Control of concentrations between undertakings – Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Article 21(1) – Exclusive application of that regulation to operations covered by the concept of ‘concentration’ – Scope – Concentration operation which has no Community dimension, is below the thresholds for mandatory ex ante control laid down in the law of a Member State and has not been referred to the European Commission – Control of such an operation by the competition authorities of that Member State in the light of Article 102 TFEU – Whether permissible.
Case C-449/21.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:207

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 2 March 2023.
Bursa Română de Mărfuri SA v Autoritatea Naţională de Reglementare în domeniul Energiei i (ANRE).
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Bucureşti.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Internal market for electricity – Directive 2009/72/EC – Regulation (EU) 2019/943 – Article 1(b) and (c) and Article 3 – Principles regarding the operation of electricity markets – Regulation (EU) 2015/1222 – Article 5(1) – Nominated electricity market operator – National legal monopoly for day-ahead and intraday trading services – National legislation providing for a monopoly for short-, medium- and long-term wholesale trading of electricity.
Case C-394/21.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:146

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 January 2023.
Unilever Italia Mkt. Operations Srl v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Article 102 TFEU – Dominant position – Imputation, to the producer, of actions of its distributors – Existence of contractual links between the producer and the distributors – Concept of ‘economic unit’ – Scope – Abuse – Exclusivity clause – Need to demonstrate the effects on the market.
Case C-680/20.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:33

Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 27 October 2022.
DB Station & Service AG v ODEG Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Kammergericht Berlin.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Rail transport – Article 102 TFEU – Abuse of a dominant position – Directive 2001/14/EC – Access to railway infrastructure – Article 30 – Railway regulatory body – Review of infrastructure charges – National courts – Review of charges in the light of competition law – Division of competence between the regulatory authority and the national courts.
Case C-721/20.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2022:832

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 14 September 2022.
Google LLC and Alphabet, Inc. v European Commission.
Competition – Abuse of dominant position – Smart mobile devices – Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement – Concepts of multi-sided platform and market (‘ecosystem’) – Operating system (Google Android) – App store (Play Store) – Search and browser applications (Google Search and Chrome) – Agreements with device manufacturers and mobile network operators – Single and continuous infringement – Concepts of overall plan and conduct implemented in the context of the same infringement (product bundles, exclusivity payments and anti-fragmentation obligations) – Exclusionary effects – Rights of the defence – Unlimited jurisdiction.
Case T-604/18.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2022:541

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 15 June 2022.
Qualcomm, Inc. v European Commission.
Competition – Abuse of a dominant position – LTE chipsets market – Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement – Exclusivity payments – Rights of the defence – Article 19 and Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 – Foreclosure effects.
Case T-235/18.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2022:358

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 May 2022.
Servizio Elettrico Nazionale SpA and Others v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato and Others.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Dominant position – Abuse – Article 102 TFEU – Effect of a practice on the well-being of consumers and on the structure of the market – Abusive exclusionary practice – Whether the practice is capable of producing an exclusionary effect – Recourse to means other than those coming within the scope of competition on the merits – Hypothetical as-efficient competitor unable to replicate the practice – Existence of an anticompetitive intent – Opening-up of the market for the sale of electricity to competition – Transfer of commercially sensitive information within a group of undertakings in order to preserve a dominant market position inherited from a statutory monopoly – Whether a subsidiary’s conduct can be imputed to the parent company.
Case C-377/20.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2022:379