30 Dec
Member News

Federal Trade Commission Releases Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement

Split along partisan lines, the Federal Trade Commission (Commission) voted last week to issue Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement (Commentary). The Commentary intends to “provide greater transparency to the public regarding analysis of vertical mergers” by collecting in a single document the Commission’s past vertical merger cases and summarizing how it has analyzed potential anticompetitive effects in vertical transactions. The two Democratic commissioners dissented here just as they had in June 2020, with respect to the issuance of the...

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28 Dec
Brexit News, Chapter News

What The Brexit Trade Deal Means by John Bruton

By John Bruton, former Taoiseach, Irish Prime Minister, and former EU Ambassador to the United States The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK is an exercise in damage limitation. The UK will face numerous obstacles because of its decision to leave the EU, including leaving the Customs Union and Single Market. But it was in nobody’s interest to add to these obstacles. That was the spirit in which the EU approached the negotiation. The Agreement may run to...

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27 Dec
Brexit News, Chapter News

Agreements reached between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Union

NOTE: The Trade and Cooperation Agreement and other agreements below are provided for information only. No rights may be derived from them until the date of application. The numbering of the articles is provisional. The United Kingdom and the European Union have agreed a Trade and Cooperation Agreement, an Agreement on Nuclear Cooperation and an Agreement on Security Procedures for Exchanging and Protecting Classified Information. These Agreements are designed to honour the instruction of the British people – expressed in...

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27 Dec
Brexit News, Member News

The Brexit Trade Agreement Is a Fair Deal

By EACCNY member Georges Ugeux | CEO at Galileo Global Advisors and Adjunct professor Columbia Law School. “The clock stopped ticking. Today is a day of relief,” E.U. negotiator Michel Barnier said at a news conference in Brussels. “But tinted by some sadness, as we compare what came before with what lies ahead.” First of all, let’s salute the achievement and its authors. The dramatic breakthrough of the Brexit Trade Agreement is avoiding complete chaos of the export and imports of goods...

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24 Dec
Brexit News, Chapter News

EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: A new relationship, with big changes – Overview of consequences and benefits

On 1 January 2021, the United Kingdom will leave the EU Single Market and Customs Union, and all EU policies. This was its choice. As a result, it will lose all the rights and benefits it had as an EU Member State, and will no longer be covered by the EU’s international agreements. This will bring far-reaching changes, affecting citizens, businesses, public administrations and stakeholders in both the EU and the UK. To limit the disruption insofar as possible,...

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21 Dec
Chapter News

Europe fit for the Digital Age: Commission proposes new rules for digital platforms

The Commission has proposed today an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media, online market places, and other online platforms that operate in the European Union: the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. European values are at the heart of both proposals. The new rules will better protect consumers and their fundamental rights online, and will lead to fairer and more open digital markets for everyone....

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18 Dec
Brexit News, Member News

Vulcan View The latest EU developments – December 18, 2020

Cautious optimism takes over in final negotiation weeks European citizens and businesses may find some additional gifts under their Christmas trees this year if all works out. Not only is the European Medicines Agency set to approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for Europe on Monday, but EU and UK negotiators may finally be close to agreeing the post-Brexit trade relationship. After months of growing pessimism on both sides of the English Channel over whether chief negotiators Michel Barnier and David...

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18 Dec
Brexit News, Chapter News

Speech by Michel Barnier in plenary session of the European Parliament Today

Madame President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for this new opportunity to take stock of this very long and extraordinary negotiation that I have the honor to lead on behalf of the Commission and on your behalf for more than four years now. Together, with your Parliament and the Council, we have already succeeded in enabling an orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom, as it wished. It is for this withdrawal agreement that Maroš Šefčovič has just spoken of,...

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17 Dec
Member News

Stibbe | Gatecrashing gatekeepers? The EU’s digital reform is out

Christmas is a time for contemplation, and the proposals of the long-awaited Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act may give gatekeepers and other online intermediaries even more reason to be pensive this year. The proposals introduce more rules for them to abide by, while also providing greater safeguards to fair competition and online users. Even though it will likely be another year before the Acts become effective, online intermediaries may already wish to begin considering their internal processes and business policies...

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17 Dec
Member News

IPTI | Update on Property Tax Issues: December 2020

The EACC, in partnership with the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI), wants to keep its members up to date with the latest developments in property taxes in the USA and Europe. IPTI has put together a selection of brief reports from articles contained in IPTI Xtracts which can be found on its website (www.ipti.org). USA California: Prop. 13 Still the Third Rail? Not Exactly Proposition 13 is still the third rail of California politics,” crowed Jon Coupal in the headline of an...

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