Competition monthly highlights—October 2020

Table of contents

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) and competition law
• EU antitrust
• Commission accepts commitments from Broadcom to end abuse of dominance investigation
• General Court partially upholds appeals by French supermarkets concerning a part of the Commission’s dawn raid decisions
• Court of Justice dismisses Pirelli’s power cables cartel appeal
• Court of Justice dismisses appeal in the retail food packaging trays cartel
• Advocate General recommends partially upholding appeal against steel abrasives cartel; Pometon’s fine should be reduced
• EU mergers
• General Court rejects challenge to Commission’s prohibition of Croatia cement merger
• EU State aid

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Article summary

This month’s edition of Competition highlights include (amongst other things): (1) the General Court’s judgment which dismissed an appeal of a Commission decision to prohibit the joint acquisition by HeidelbergCement and Schwenk Zement of Cemex Croatia; (2) the Commission’s decision to accept commitments offered by Broadcom to address competition concerns regarding Broadcom's conduct in various TV set-top box and modem chipset markets; and (3) the General Court’s judgment concerning appeals by various French supermarkets against the Commission’s decisions of 2017 that ordered them to submit to unannounced dawn raids.