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Greater use of EU antitrust clearance decisions may give more clarity, Vestager says

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
  • 02 Mar 2020 12:15
  • 03 Mar 2020 06:53
Companies might get greater legal certainty on when EU antitrust rules apply, after competition chief Margrethe Vestager said the European Commission is considering issuing decisions outlining when and why it issues an exemption.
Officials have traditionally been reluctant to explicitly approve corporate conduct, instead putting the onus on companies themselves

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Lewis Crofts

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Lewis leads MLex's editorial strategy, content direction, quality and development. He has a reputation for breaking stories and providing analysis on complex legal disputes before regulators and courts around the globe. He has also developed MLex's unrivalled coverage of competition policy, litigation, regulation, Brexit and international investigations.

Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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