Editorial

The suggestions made by the speakers included both substantive amendments, eg innovative theories of harm in abuse of dominance cases to sanction unfair conduct in the field of data privacy or environmental standards, as well as procedural changes seeking to provide more guidance and transparency to market players involved in innovation activities. The country report section features contributions by Heinrich Kühnert on discriminatory rebates in the postal sector in Austria; by Bogdan Marius Chirițoiu and Vlad Dan Roman on the new digital paradigm and a more comprehensive approach to market resilience in Romania; by Helene Andersson on the start of foreign direct investment screening in Sweden; by Philipp Zurkinden and Bernhard Lauterburg on the expanded scope for the control of abusive conduct and a reform proposal for antitrust enforcement in Switzerland; as well as by Kiran Desai on the Facebook/GIPHY merger in the UK. [...]our case note section includes reports by Justin Lindeboom on the CJEU judgment of 14 January 2021 in case C-450/19 Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto, determining the end of an infringement of Article 101(1) TFEU in bid-rigging cases, and by Catarina Vieira Peres de Fraipont and Ines Neves on the judgment of the CJEU of 6 October 2021 in case C‑882/19 Sumal/Mercedes Benz Trucks Espana regarding the theory of economic unit and the ‘downward’ liability of subsidiaries for competition law infringement of their parents.