Competition & Regulatory Newsletter

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has fined Casio £3.7 million for imposing minimum resale prices (a form of resale price maintenance) on retailers that sold its musical instruments online. This fine is the latest in a series of cases that illustrate both the CMA’s and the European Commission’s increased focus on RPM, in particular in online markets.

Also in this newsletter

• CMA disqualifies three further directors of “office fit-out cartel” companies
• European Commission orders France to recover €8.5 million of illegal aid from Ryanair
• China Hangzhou Internet Court awards Tencent RMB 650,000 in first unfair competition case against in-platform businesses