Makis Komninos
Partner, White & Case (Brussels)
Series, EU Competition Cases13 publications since 2020Official page
Publications in the Network Law Review
Newest first- 30 August 2024
“J’accuse!” – Four Deadly Sins of the Commission’s Draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses
Just as we were ready to go on our summer holidays, or even after some of us had already left, the Commission published its draft Guidelines on exclusionary abuses (you can find them here in all official languages).
- 8 January 2024
Competition Stories: October 2022 – June 2023
My catching up with the backlog continues. This time my “stories” cover the period October 2022 to June 2023 – so nine months in total! The current survey has to be rather summary for some cases – I focus mostly on those cases…
- 17 April 2023
Competition Stories July – September 2022
With much delay, in part due to my workload, I am back. This time my “stories” cover three months: July, August, and September 2022. In no other period have the EU Courts been as active in competition law, notwithstanding the…
- 8 August 2022
Competition Stories: May & June 2022
The intense activity of the EU Courts and the European Commission reached a peak in May-June, so these “stories” are probably the longest ever. That gives us some nice summertime reading...
- 31 May 2022
Competition Stories: March & April 2022
With some delay, I am now presenting the relatively few developments in March-April 2022. Clearly the most important judgments were bpost and Nordzucker on the principle of non bis in idem.
- 11 April 2022
Competition Stories: January & February 2022
What a start of the year this was! In what promises to be an annus mirabilis for Article 102 TFEU, the year started with the Intel renvoi judgment of the General Court.
- 6 January 2022
Competition Stories: November & December 2021
What an astonishing end of the year! November was the month of the Google Shopping judgment and December was dominated by AG Rantos’s Opinion in Servizio Elettrico Nazionale, which is likely to stay on as one of the most…
- 9 November 2021
Competition Stories: July to October 2021
What a period this has been for EU competition law developments! There were no “Stories” for July-August, although there were a few minor developments, which are mentioned below.
- 19 July 2021
Competition Stories: May & June 2021
May and June were two rather uneventful months from the point of view of final decisions or court judgments at EU level. We had two important Opinions, one by Advocate General Bobek in Stichting Cartel Compensation and another by…
- 10 May 2021
Competition Stories: March & April 2021
Time for our “competition stories” for March and April! Which development would you consider as the most important? In my view, the Slovak Telekom judgment of 25 March 2021 definitely deserves the No. 1 position.
- 3 March 2021
Competition Stories: January & February 2021
2021 has started with a number of interesting developments in the procedural area, though nothing ground-breaking.
- 22 December 2020
Competition Stories: November & December 2020
2020 ends with many important developments. Let us first start with the new case law from Luxembourg. From a policy point of view, the most important judgment of the last two months is Canal+.
- 26 October 2020
Competition Stories: September & October 2020
When Thibault came to me with the idea of publishing a bimonthly review of EU competition law developments, I jumped at the idea. It proved to be quite fun. So here is my first “Stories” covering September-October 2020.