Overview

This comprehensive Brussels update from Nabarro covers the following topics:

UK competition

• Directors face greater risk of disqualification for competition breaches
• Imperial Tobacco and retailers appeal OFT tobacco pricing decision
• Competition Commission will need to re-issue Controlled Land Order

EU competition

• Commission’s power to accept binding commitments endorsed by ECJ
• Bathroom fittings cartel fined €622m
• Prestressing steel cartel fined €518m
• Allegations of a window mountings cartel
• Decision in carbonless paper cartel re-adopted

Internal Market

• Options for a European Contract law published

Procurement

• Action over the right to terminate land development tender in favour of “in-house” solution
• Opinion on disclosure of weighting of award criteria for ‘Part B’ services
• Award of a legal services contract for motorway projects to go before ECJ
• Greece threatened with fine for continuing to reject CE marked medical equipment

State aid

• Refusal of access to documents may be justified

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