The Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (IBER) grants an exemption to the application of competition rules to two categories of agreements in the insurance sector: information- and risk-sharing agreements. The latter category encompasses the common coverage of risks by co-insurance and...

The Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (IBER) grants an exemption to the application of competition rules to two categories of agreements in the insurance sector: information- and risk-sharing agreements. There are, however, difficulties in defining the relevant market and, as a consequence,...

Technology transfer agreements are agreements by which one party authorises another to use technology rights (such as, patents, design rights, software copyrights and know-how) for the production of goods or services. Common forms of technology transfer agreements are IP licensing agreements and...

The purpose of the Study is to provide information to support the European Commission's evaluation of Regulations 1/2003 and 773/2004 (the "Regulations") covering the time period as from the applicability of both Regulations, as from May 2004, until 31 December 2022. From a methodological...

The purpose of the Study is to provide information to support the European Commission's evaluation of Regulations 1/2003 and 773/2004 (the "Regulations") covering the time period as from the applicability of both Regulations, as from May 2004, until 31 December 2022. From a methodological...