Since 5 May 2022, EU trilogue negotiations have been underway on the first Regulation to limit the effect of subsidies from third countries to companies active in the EU
On 18 May 2022, the General Court of the EU confirmed the legality of the European Commission's decision of 2 March 2020 concerning the recovery of illegal and incompatible aid granted by Italy to the former Tirrenia di Navigazione SpA group for one of its subsidiaries
On May 3, 2022, the European Commission published a proposed regulation (the “EHDS Proposal”) for the establishment of a European Health Data Space (or “EHDS”).
Following political agreement on the text in March, the DMA should enter into force in October 2022 and apply from Spring 2023 (see the latest public version here).
The European Commission has adopted a new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (‘VBER’) accompanied by new Vertical Guidelines. This Regulation (EU/2022/720) enters into force on 1 June 2022.
On 1 June 2022, the Belgian law transposing the EU directives on certain aspects of contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services (2019/770) and for the sale of goods (2019/771) will enter into force, thereby ushering in a number of changes.
The European Commission last week presented its €300 billion REPowerEU plan to reduce the EU's reliance on Russian fossil fuels.
Following its evaluation of procedural and jurisdictional aspects of EU merger control, on 6 May 2022 the European Commission published drafts for a revised Merger Implementing Regulation (including Form CO and Short Form CO drafts)
On 18 May 2022, the EU Commission presented a plan to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels and fast forward the green transition (the REPowerEU Plan). On the same date, the Commission also presented a number of (i) short-term intervention measures
On 12 May 2022, the Belgian Competition Authority (the “Authority”) issued its annual communication setting out its policy priorities for the current year. This publication,
