Competition Law Quarterly Update Q2/2011
19 Apr 2011
Case studies
- Singapore Competition Appeal Board reduces penalties in its first decision
- CCS clears Samwoh Corporation Pte Ltd Acquisition
- CCS clears F&N foods proposed acquisition of King’s Creameries
- EU General Court reduces cartel fine, faults EC for earlier decision
Regulatory Updates
- China issues new rules under the Antimonopoly Law
- European Court of Justice rules margin squeeze not a subset of refusal to supply
- India: Start of the merger control scheme
- Malaysia’s competition watchdog established
- Netherlands Competition Authority to merge with two other regulatory bodies
- US increases thresholds for compulsory merger notification
Industry News
- European Commission probes code-share agreements
- No action against SIA cargo staff
- Asahi – P&N Beverages merger denied
- Germany fines food companies for information exchange
- Spanish cosmetics cartel and association fined €51 Million
- Asia Pulp & Paer fined for price fixing
- China fines paper manufacturers
- First enforcement decision by China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce
- Indonesia fines oil and gas companies for bid rigging
- Samsung SDI pleads guilty to price fixing charges
- UK construction companies receive massive reductions in fines
- UK’s National Health Service takes action against Reckitt Benckiser
- Temasek pays cartel fine in Indonesia
- Greece fines fish-farming cartel
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