Cabify sees arbitration award on antitrust go to EU’s top court
By Nicholas Hirst and Jean Comte ( July 7, 2025, 11:44 GMT | Insight) -- A Spanish court has asked the EU's top judges to clarify whether it can review an arbitration panel’s interpretation of EU competition law. The question arose after local taxi giant Auro persuaded arbitrators that the exclusivity clauses used by taxi booking platform Cabify breached antitrust law. The case is the latest to test the boundaries between EU law and the widespread use of arbitration by companies to solve disputes swiftly and cheaply.An arbitration dispute between Cabify and a Spanish taxi service has landed on the desk of the EU’s top judges, after a Spanish court asked whether it could check whether the arbitrators had misapplied EU competition law. ...
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