Competition and Regulatory Newsletter

European merger control and cartel trends in 2017

The European Commission publishes cartel enforcement and merger control statistics at regular intervals. This article looks back at the Commission’s activities in these two areas of competition law in 2017 and discusses recent trends.

Further information (including statistics) can be found in the January 2018 editions of our relevant client publications: The EU Merger Regulation and The EU competition rules on cartels.

Also in this newsletter

• Singapore issues record fine to capacitor manufacturers
• Court upholds Malaysia Competition Commission’s first abuse of dominance decision
• Court of Justice rules that France, Ireland and Italy must recover State aid to alumina producers