Competition

The European Commission has announced the opening of a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon over its use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace. The investigation will consider whether Amazon collects competitively-sensitive information about marketplace selle

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has cleared, subject to a number of legally binding commitments, the proposed acquisition of sole control of Kings Laundry Limited by Berendsen Ireland Limited. Berendsen and Kings Laundry are two of the three main providers of outsourced fla

Dorit McCann, partner and head of EU, competition and procurement at Beauchamps, examines the Irish authorities' approach to gun-jumping. The Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has, for the first time, secured a criminal conviction for gun-jumping.

The European Commission has imposed a €1.49 billion fine on search giant Google for breaching EU antitrust rules. In a decision yesterday, the Commission found that Google had abused its dominant position in the online search advertising intermediation market by imposing restrictive clauses in