Overview

Ashurst rounds up the latest developments in competition law, including:

- How the European Commission has adopted its first settlement decision, almost two years after its cartel settlement procedure was introduced;

- The UK Office of Fair Trading's (OFT's) decision to withdraw its criminal prosecution of four current and former British Airways executives for alleged dishonest price-fixing;

- The European Commission's draft guidelines on the assessment under Article 101 TFEU of horizontal co-operation agreements under EU competition law;

- The OFT's report setting out the results of its investigation into how competition law compliance programmes are applied in practice, and how this may be reflected in the OFT’s enforcement;

- The European Commission's adoption of new competition rules for the motor vehicle sector.

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