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Legal Update: Competition Law

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Public Consultation on the Intersection Between Competition Law and Sustainability Policy Legal Updates

Public Consultation on the Intersection Between Competition Law and Sustainability Policy

The European Commission has published a call for contributions, which will run until 20 November, on how EU competition policy can best support the "Green Deal".The Green Deal is the EU's action plan intended to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy and to restore biodiversity and cut pollution.The main goal is for Europe to be the first climate neutral continent by 2050.The idea is that competition policy, although not the primary tool to combat climate change and protect the environment, can complement regulation in doing so.Short of any legislative changes to the existing…
MamoTCV Advocates
11th November 2020
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Merger Filers Global Legal Guide Legal Updates

Merger Filers Global Legal Guide

Mamo TCV has authored the Malta Guide on the Merger Filers Global Legal Guide. The Guide is a collective effort among leading competition lawyers, providing information on the merger control rules in a number of jurisdictions worldwide covering areas such as how mergers are to be notified to the relevant competent authorities, the process of merger notification, and appeal processes. It also provides summaries of merger decisions taken by the competent authorities of each jurisdiction and will be periodically updated to include recent decisions. This is not the first time that Mamo TCV has been chosen to contribute to similar…
MamoTCV Advocates
5th March 2020
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Amendments to the Competition Act and Consumer Affairs Act are now in force Legal Updates

Amendments to the Competition Act and Consumer Affairs Act are now in force

On 29 July 2019, Legal Notice 179 of 2019 brought the Competition Act and Consumer Affairs Act and other Laws (Amendment) Act ("the Amendment Act") into force. The Act introduced extensive amendments to the Competition Act (read more here) and the Consumer Affairs Act (read more here). These amendments are a welcome change intended to ensure that the procedure adopted by the relevant administrative authorities in competition and consumer cases comply with the right to a fair hearing enshrined in the Constitution of Malta. Disclaimer This document does not purport to give legal, financial or tax advice. Should you require…
MamoTCV Advocates
31st July 2019
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Extensive Amendments to Maltese Competition and Consumer Law Legal Updates

Extensive Amendments to Maltese Competition and Consumer Law

The Competition Act and Consumer Affairs Act and other Laws (Amendment) Act was enacted on 31 May 2019.This Act extensively amends the Competition Act, the Consumer Affairs Act and other related legislation.It comes in the wake of theAugust 2018 public consultation procedure launched by the Government of Malta (see here) and a reworked draft bill (see here), all intended to ensure that the procedure adopted by the relevant administrative authorities in competition and consumer cases comply with the right to a fair hearing enshrined in the Constitution of Malta, and confirmed in the cases ofFederation of Estate Agents v Direttur Generali…
MamoTCV Advocates
5th June 2019
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Parliament Tables Bill Amending the Competition Act and Consumer Affairs Act Legal Updates

Parliament Tables Bill Amending the Competition Act and Consumer Affairs Act

In August 2018, the Government of Malta launched a public consultation procedure regarding proposed amendments to the Competition Act (Cap 379 of the laws of Malta), the Consumer Affairs Act (Cap 378 of the laws of Malta), and other related legislation. A draft bill had also been published (you can read about this here.The proposed changes were a reaction to the principles that emerged from the Constitutional Court judgement in Federation of Estate Agents v Direttur Generali (Kompetizzjoni) et of the 3 May 2016 (you can read our article on the judgment here. Following the public consultation process, and the…
MamoTCV Advocates
29th March 2019
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Legal Update: Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Industry Legal Updates

Legal Update: Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Industry

In April 2018, the European Commission issued a proposal for a Directive on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain. The proposed Directive targets the imbalance of power in buyer-supplier relationships where the supplier is a small and medium-sized enterprise ('an SME') and the buyer is not.The EU's Special Committee on Agriculture supported the Commission's draft Directive. However, on the 1 October 2018, Members of the European Parliament that form part of the Agricultural Committee voted in favour of extending the protection afforded by the draft Directive to all producers and supplies, irrespective of whether they…
MamoTCV Advocates
24th October 2018