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Competition monthly highlights—March 2020

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Published on: 31 March 2020

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This month’s edition of Competition highlights include: (1) publication by Lexis®PSL of two Coronavirus (COVID-19) trackers summarising global coronavirus (COVID-19) related antitrust, State aid and merger control developments (2) the Court of Justice’s judgment in Case C- 10/18 Marine Harvest v Commission, which dismissed an action for annulment of the Commission’s decision to fine Marine Harvest €20m for the failure to notify its acquisition of control over Morpol and failure to comply with the standstill obligation and (3) the Court of Appeal issued its judgment in Flynn Pharma and Pfizer v CMA, an appeal against the CAT’s judgment which quashed its infringement decision against Pfizer and Flynn Pharma imposing fines of £89.4m for charging unfair and excessive prices for an anti-epilepsy drug.

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