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28Jan

Germany Adopts New Competition Rules for Tech Platforms

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The Development: The Bundestag, the German legislature, amended Germany's antitrust laws to include special competition rules for digital platform "companies with overwhelming importance for competition across multiple markets." The amendments, known as the GWB Digitization Act or ARC Amendments, also substantially raise Germany's merger control filing thresholds. The Background: In recent years, the German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") launched a number of high profile and hotly debated...
By: Jones Day
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/germany-adopts-new-competition-rules-5619922/

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