1/21/2025 8:00:13 AM Italian Competition Authority accepts Booking.com commitments in abuse of dominance investigation By Chiara Horgan Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi On 23 December 2024, the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) closed, with commitments, the investigation against Booking.com on alleged...
12/18/2024 11:58:12 AM Joint Italian-Irish dawn raid: Ryanair's Legal Wings Clipped by Italian Council of State By Chiara Horgan Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi On 29 November 2024, the Italian supreme administrative Court (the “Council of State”) dismissed an appeal by Ryanair DAC and Ryanair...
11/20/2024 1:48:14 PM G7 competition authorities identify shared guiding principles to address AI-related risks By Chiara Horgan Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi On 4 October 2024, the Italian Competition Authority (“AGCM”) hosted the G7 competition authorities and policymakers’ summit in Rome to...
3/20/2024 2:10:49 PM The Italian Council of State clarifies the extent of the Antitrust Authority’s new powers of intervention in the case of fact-finding investigations By Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi Chiara Horgan In November 2023, the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) asked the Italian Council of State to clarify the scope of application of...
1/17/2024 9:40:11 AM Italian Annual Competition Act extends national competition authority powers By Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi Chiara Horgan The Italian annual competition Act (“Annual Competition Act”), which entered into force on 31 December 2023, has introduced new...
12/18/2023 12:29:53 PM Airline pricing algorithms under the Italian antitrust watchdog scrutiny: an attempt to clip AI’s wings? By Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi Chiara Horgan On 18 November 2023, the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) launched an ex-officio fact-finding market investigation (the...
11/15/2023 12:13:41 PM The Italian antitrust watchdog goes green again: another environmental consortium investigated for alleged abuse of dominant position By Federico Marini Balestra Lucia Antonazzi Chiara Horgan On 2 October 2023, the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) announced the launch of an antitrust proceeding against the national...
4/3/2019 7:53:00 PM Territorial licensing in Europe called into question by Pay-TV antitrust cases and new legislation By Francine Cunningham Chiara Horgan Pauline Van Sande, Francine Cunningham and Chiara Horgan explain the range of challenges to territorial licensing currently facing...