Keeping you up to date on Competition & EU law developments in Europe and beyond.
The European Commission recently published a set of proposals which seek to improve the working conditions in platform work and to support the sustainable growth of digital labour platforms in the EU. The Draft Guidelines published as part of the proposal clarify the application of EU competition law to collective
agreements of solo self-employed persons related to the improvement of their working conditions.
Wednesday 9 March | 12:00 - 13:00 CET
The European Commission’s Data Act proposal is due to be presented on 23 February.
The proposal is part of the ‘Shaping Europe’s Digital Future’ strategy and will be an important building block for the digital economy in Europe. The Data Act is expected to regulate the use of privately held data by the public sector, data access and use in business-to-business situations (including an amendment to the Database Directive), data portability, interoperability, establishing more competitive markets for cloud computing services and safeguards for non-personal data in international contexts.
Join our EU Regulatory & Public Affairs team on 9 March for a presentation on the key elements of this far-reaching legislative proposal. Legal experts from our firm will also look at the Data Act's interplay with competition and data protection law.
Register for the free webinar here >
For more information contact Pauline Kuipers, Ariane Le Strat or Matteo Stainer
For more information contact Pauline Kuipers or Tialda Beetstra
For more information contact Thomas Jones, Patrick Cordwell or Jeff Tian
For more information contact Vojtěch Chloupek or Jiří Švejda
For more information contact Morten Nissen or Alexander Brøchner
For more information contact Dr. Stephan Waldheim or Maren Steiert
For more information contact Dániel Arányi, Gábor Kutai or Rebeka Szopkó
For more information contact Dániel Arányi, Gábor Kutai or Rebeka Szopkó
For more information contact Pauline Kuipers or Joost van Roosmalen
For more information contact Candela Sotés
For more information contact Morten Nissen or Catherine Laflamme Jansson
For more information contact Dr Saskia King, Ariane Le Strat or Amy Donlevey
Episode 4: The UK’s National Security and Investment Regime enters into force
This short episode explores the UK’s National Security and Investment Regime which entered into force on 4 Jan 2022. Our London-based Competition & EU Partner Peter Willis provides an overview of the new regime and which businesses will be captured by it. He also dives into three of the 17 sensitive sectors, and the consequences of not making a mandatory notification. Read our recent article on this topic with a practical flowchart here.
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Companies from virtually all sectors, including most notably electronics and automotive, are struggling to meet customer demand in the current chip crisis. While sharing the pain seems intuitive in times of crisis, companies often overlook the legal risks and opportunities involved in allocating short supplies.
Based on experience obtained particularly in the automotive sector in Europe, Stephan Waldheim, Philipp Egler and Jonathan Speed analysed the legacy (pro rata) and alternative allocation methods, and classified the associated risks from a contract and competition law perspective.
Issues discussed in this webinar included:
Register and watch the recording of this free webinar hosted by Lexology >
21 February | 15:00 - 15:45 UTC
In this webinar organised by the Financial Services Club (Z/Yen Group), our London-based Competition & EU legal director Dr Saskia King will be covering the following points in relation to financial services and UK competition law.
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Tuesday 15 March
London
Bird & Bird is proud to sponsor this conference, which will bring together government enforcers, in-house counsel, economists and private practice lawyers to debate the latest developments in the digital sector. Programme topics include:
Our Brussels-based partner Anne Federle will join the panel on privacy and competition enforcement, which will discuss topics such as concerns about privacy washing, incorporating privacy concerns in an antitrust theory of harm, interactions between competition and privacy regulators and lessons learned from recent cases including the UK Google Privacy Sandbox and Apple’s app tracking transparency.
Registration is free for in-house counsel and government representatives.
On 27 January our Rome-based partner Federico Marini Balestra, associate Lucia Antonazzi and guest speaker Claudio Calcagno (Director di GMT Economics) conducted a cross-sectional analysis covering the legal and economic aspects of the main changes, challenges and opportunities for businesses arising out of the EU Commission's new draft Vertical agreement Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and accompanying guidelines.
Watch the recording (in Italian) here >
For more information contact Francine Cunningham, Lluís Girbau Cabanas or Andrea Whelton
We are pleased to announce that three Bird & Bird articles have been nominated for the prestigious Antitrust Writing Awards organised by independent legal publisher Concurrences and the George Washington University. The aim of the awards is to promote competition scholarship and to contribute to competition advocacy.
Each year an Awards Jury and readers select the best antitrust articles published around the world.
Click below to read each article.
Click here to find out more and to see all the articles in the running. You can read and vote for the articles until March 25th.