EU: European Court of Justice confirms fines for cartel facilitators
The EU Commission may fine companies merely for helping other undertakings run a cartel, the European Court of Justice held on 22 October 2015 - but under which conditions?
Adoption Day sees EU adopt legislative framework to lift nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions
On 18 October 2015, Iran's Foreign Minister and the EU Foreign Policy Chief issued a joint statement announcing the official adoption of the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" between Iran and the EU/E3+3 (China, the EU, France, Germany, Russia, the UK and the USA).
Frequently Asked Questions on the Judgment of the CJEU on the US/EU Safe Harbor...
The Court of Justice of the European Union, following the opinion of the Advocate General, invalidated European Commission Decision 2000/520 dated July 27, 2000, which allowed transfers of personal data to US companies that self-certified under the US/EU Safe Harbor Program.
Post Danmark II – EU Commission Guidelines on Economic Assessment of Rebates Under Article...
The first Post Danmark case in 2012 brought about a modest antitrust revolution on Article 102 applicable to discrimination. Rarefied economic concepts were confirmed. Price discrimination as a standalone abuse was all but confined to a historical footnote in antitrust textbooks, to be replaced by a predation type test.
Get Ready for the European General Data Protection Regulation
With the anticipated publication of the European General Data Protection Regulation in 2016, multi-national companies are beginning to assess how the new Regulation will affect their global data protection and privacy compliance programs.
Belgium: New “Cayman Tax” published
On 9 October 2014, the new Belgian federal government announced, in its coalition agreement for the coming term, its intention to introduce a regime of tax transparency for the income of trusts and other foreign legal arrangements (the so-called Cayman Tax).
EU antitrust procedural rules amended to aline them with EU Damages Directive
The Commission has adopted amendments to a number of its key procedural rules in order to bring them into line with the EU Directive on...
Global Overview of Anti-Corruption Laws 2015
It is our pleasure to present the first edition of Baker McKenzie’s Global Overview of Anti-Bribery Laws Handbook (“Handbook”). Given the success of last...
TRACE Report: The rest of the world outpaced U.S. corruption enforcement actions for the...
In a noteworthy trend picked-up by Trace International’s Global Enforcement Report, in 2014 non-U.S. enforcement actions concerning bribery of foreign officials outpaced U.S. enforcement actions...
Compliance Trends around the World – 10 Questions for the Compliance Heads of Baker...
We asked Mini vandePol (Head of the Baker & McKenzie Global and Asia-Pacific Compliance Practice Group), Joan Meyer (Head of the North American Compliance...