European Union: Trade Regulation & Practices

Ireland's proposed Media Regulation Bill introduces sweeping reforms to the country's media merger regime, expanding regulatory oversight to include social media platforms and streaming services while transferring assessment authority from ministerial to independent regulatory control. The legislation modernizes decades-old definitions of media businesses and implements new notification thresholds that could significantly increase the volume of transactions requiring regulatory approval.

La Cour de Justice de l'Union Européenne[1] (« CJUE ») et la Cour d'appel de Paris[2] ont affirmé que les fournisseurs de produits de luxe peuvent interdire la distribution de leurs produits sur les..

In its judgment of 20 December 2017 (C-393/16) concerning the use of "Champagner Sorbet", the CJEU established, for the first time, principles for the use of a protected designation of origin...