The Digital Markets Act (DMA)imposes specific obligations on designated gatekeepers. Competitors, business users and other affected market participants can enforce these obligations before national courts.…
The F.A.Z. Institute, affiliated with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading national newspapers, and QuantiQuesthave published their “TOP Lawyers 2027” ranking of German…
Lightweight applications based on Whisper — an automatic speech recognition system developed by OpenAI — have become increasingly available. Comparable solutions are emerging as well. Some operate entirely offline,…
Several commentaries on the Data Act have now been published. I myself have contributed to the upcoming Bomhard/Schmidt-Kesselcommentary, where I analyse Articles 8, 9 and 12 of the…
Week after week, our field sees new developments — proposals, proceedings, discussions, decisions. Many of these are covered across various media. Our newsletter offers a curated selection of…
The CJEU’s judgment in Google/Enel raises an important question: do the Bronner criteria still apply whenever a dominant undertaking refuses access to a platform? This article argues…
Last week, the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, BKartA) published a press release outlining its preliminary legal assessment of Amazon’s current price control practices. According to…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has handed down its judgment in the case Enel Italia v Google (C‑233/23)some weeks ago. The Court…
I was recently a guest on the Data Navigatorpodcast, which takes a closer look at the Data Act from a variety of competition law perspectives. The episode is…
Google has amicably resolved competition concerns with the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt – BKartA). This emerges from a press release issued by the BKartA. According…
