Das Schweizer Parlament hat im März 2021 den Gegenvorschlag zur sog. Fair-Preis-Initiative angenommen. Dieser wird Anfang 2022 in Kraft treten. Nebst dem Verbot des privaten Geoblockings erweitert er das Schweizer Kartellgesetz um das Konzept der relativen Marktmacht und damit um
On 25 August 2021, the Swiss Federal Council presented the key principles for a Swiss investment control regime. The introduction of a notification and approval requirement is planned. This shall prevent threats to public order and security by foreign investors as well as significant restraints of competition by state-owned or state-related foreign investors. The exact
In May 2020, the Swiss Federal Administrative Tribunal (FAT) upheld the appeal of Threema, the provider of the telephony and messaging app with the same name, against an instruction of the Federal Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service to monitor and unencrypt marginal data in real-time (see our article here). In its ruling 2C_544/2020 of 29 April 2021, the Federal Supreme Court
On 9 July 2021, the European Commission published the drafts of the revised VBER and Vertical Guidelines. Interested parties have time until 17 September 2021 to comment on these drafts. The revised rules shall enter into force on 1 June 2022
Get a comprehensive and up to date overview on telecommunications and media laws in Switzerland and around the world. Mario Strebel and Fabian Koch author the Switzerland chapter of the most recent edition of LEXOLOGY
In its decision dated 4 February 2021, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court qualified Pfizer's non-binding resale price recommendations for Viagra, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction, as inadmissible resale price maintenance in the form of a concerted practice that is subject to direct fines, contrary to the Swiss Federal Administrative Court. The judgement already attracted a lot of attention
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