Competition weekly highlights—27 October 2022

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This week's edition of Competition weekly highlights includes, from an EU perspective: (1) AG Kokott’s opinion recommending the setting aside of the General Court’s judgment which annulled the Commission’s merger decision in Telefónica/Hutchinson 3G, (2) publication of new guidance by the Commission’s on its leniency policy and practice and (3) a judgment from the General Court which dismissed Siremar’s Italian State aid appeal. From a UK perspective, this weeks highlights includes: (1) the CMA’s decision to unconditionally clear LSE Group/Quantile Group after a phase 2 investigation and (2) publication by the CMA of its provisional findings in relation to the Sika/MBCC Group merger.