The German Federal Supreme Court in 2016 decided a case brought by athlete Claudia Pechstein against the International Skating Union on a doping matter. The question at issue was whether the arbitration clause in the athlete’s contract for participating in the World Championships, entered into...

The German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) held a hearing in its Economic Committee on 27 June 2018, based on the motion "Stopping market concentration in the agricultural market - preserving biodiversity and food sovereignty". This motion takes the European Commission's conditional approval of...

This is a policy paper with comments for an improvement of the Digital Markets Act that had been proposed by the European Commission in December 2020. The paper was prepared for an information session of the IMCO Committee of the European Parliament on 19 February 2021. We propose to have a more...

The German Federal Cartel Office and the Austrian Federal Competition Authority have recently published a draft "Guidance on Transaction Value Thresholds for Mandatory Pre-merger Notification (Section 35(1a) GWB and Section 9(4) KartG)" for public consultation. Prof. Dr. Christian Kersting,...