Noticias de Competencia (July and August 2017)

In our latest edition of Noticias de Competencia, our monthly competition law update, we look at how most favoured nation clauses, or MFNs, can be an abuse of dominante position, the German guidelines on vertical price fixing in food retail, how restrictions to competition are allowed in exceptional circumstances for a new entrant in the online market, the clarification by the Spanish High Court on the rule for fines to directives and legal representatives for breaching Competition Law, the guidelines by the Basque Competition Authority on school uniforms and stationery, the non-application in Portugal of the presumption that a parent company is responsible for the actions of its subsidiary, an analysis by the Brazilian Competition Authority on exclusivity agreements in the ice cream freezer market, the settlements by the Spanish Competition Authority on the Orangina Schweppes case; the EC decision lifting the standstill obligation in the Banco Santander and Banco Popular merger and a blocked merger in South Africa due to a possible cartel.

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