Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Ireland's competition authority plans to strengthen cartel enforcement and merger control under its 2027-29 strategy, published on Tuesday. The watchdog identified anticompetitive conduct affecting consumers ...(read more)

MLex Summary: A probe into whether Meta Platform’s plans to update its commercial terms constitute an abuse of a dominant position has been closed by Sweden’s competition regulator following the tech giant's decision to pa...(read more)

MLex Summary: Greek banks face calls for greater competition after the competition authority published Tuesday a sector inquiry report. The watchdog found that high market concentration and excess liquidity limited the pas...(read more)

MLex Summary: Meta’s new commercial terms have prompted Denmark’s competition regulator to refer a complaint to the European Commission on Tuesday, citing possible breaches of competition rules and the Digital Markets Act....(read more)

Seventeen intellectual property lawsuits involving Germany's Beiersdorf, China's SAIC Motor and Amazon’s Indian operator have been returned by an Indian court. The Delhi High Court ruled that website access and arranged de...(read more)

New guidelines from the intellectual property regulator in China’s eastern Jiangsu province has clarified which artificial intelligence datasets qualify for registration under the country's data-IP pilot program, how they ...(read more)

China has extended for two months the suspension of a range of tariff and non-tariff trade measures affecting the US, including export controls on rare earths and other strategic materials, restrictions on designated US co...(read more)

MLex Summary: Indonesia's proposed competition law overhaul remains a key priority in its bid to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the country's competition regulator said Monday. The Indonesi...(read more)

MLex Summary: UK ministers are in Brussels on Tuesday to push for progress on agrifood trade, emissions trading and the EU’s “Made in Europe” agenda ahead of the Nov. 20 UK-EU summit. Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan ...(read more)

MLex Summary: Very large online platforms and search engines should test their recommender systems, strengthen safeguards against misleading AI-generated content and give users greater control over their feeds under revise...(read more)

MLex Summary: Demand-based price increases should be banned under the EU’s planned Digital Fairness Act, particularly for concerts, cultural events and sporting fixtures, four EU lawmakers have urged in a letter to the Eur...(read more)

India will cap annual port charges for IP-based telecom interconnection from January 2027, limiting operators’ pricing discretion while allowing lower negotiated rates and introducing financial penalties for specified regu...(read more)