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Competition weekly highlights—8 February 2024

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Published on: 08 February 2024

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This week's edition of Competition weekly highlights includes developments from a UK perspective, including: (1) the CAT rules Hammond’s collective action against Amazon should progress over rival application, (2) Subsidy Advice Unit publishes a consultation seeking views on its proposed approach regarding its monitoring function under the Subsidy Control Act 2022. This week’s highlights also includes, from an EU perspective: (1) the Court of Justice’s judgment dismissing Scania’s appeal relating to the truck cartel market, (2) Advocate General Rantos’s opinion suggesting that the Court of Justice should dismiss the appeal relating to the calculation of the fine in the pre-stressing steel cartel case, (3) the Commission sending a Statement of Objections to PPC concerning predatory pricing in the Greek wholesale electricity market, and (4) the General Court upholding Ryanair’s appeal regarding Commission’s decision approving Dutch aid granted in favour of KLM.

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