1. Background
In February 2019, the German Federal Cartel Office issued a decision prohibiting the tech giant Meta from using “off-Facebook data”[1] to create personalized advertising for German users. The authority considered such activity to be inconsistent with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), thus constituting an abuse of Meta’s dominant position on the
The Italian Competition and Market Authority (“AGCM” or “Authority”) has closed an investigation launched in July 2021 against McDonald’s Development Italy LLC (“McDonald’s”) regarding an alleged violation of art. 9 of Italian Law no. 192/1998 concerning the so called “abuse of economic dependence”.
The South African group Aspen Pharma was fined Euro 5.2 million two weeks ago by the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) for having imposed excessive prices for its antitumor drugs “Cosmos” acquired from GlaksoSmithKline in 2009.
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Nella primavera del 2011, Ferrarelle S,p,a ha lanciato una campagna pubblicitaria consistente nell’affissione, realizzazione di packaging e pubblicizzazione a mezzo del proprio sito internet delle bottiglie di acqua Ferrarelle come “Prodotto a ImpattoZero®”, connessa all’adesione, da parte di Ferrarelle, al progetto ImpattoZero® lanciato dall’ente LifeGate. Il progetto prevedeva che – effettuato uno