Get a comprehensive and up to date overview on cartel regulation in Switzerland and around the world. Mario Strebel and Fabian Koch author the Switzerland chapter of the most recent edition of LEXOLOGY | Getting the Deal Through – Cartel Regulation
In March 2021, the Swiss Parliament adopted the counter-proposal to the so-called «Fair-Price-Initiative» which shall enter into force at the beginning of 2022. In addition to the prohibition of private geo-blocking, the counter-proposal introduces the concept of relative market power in the Swiss Cartel Act and thus behavioural obligations for
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
