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The Agri-Food Regulator: monitoring trade in the Agri-Food Supply Chain
EU, COMPETITION & PROCUREMENT The Agri-Food Regulator: monitoring trade in the Agri-Food Supply Chain Ireland has a new State body tasked with enforcing unfair trade law and analysing market structure in the agricultural and food products supply chain. The Agri-Food Regulator has a statutory mandate to promote fairness and transparency in the agri-food supply chain by providing legal protection against specific unfair trading practices affecting suppliers of agriculture or food products.
FDI screening in Ireland and M&A - What makes the target’s activities notifiable in Ireland?
The Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (Irish Screening Act) is due to come into force in the 1st week of September 2024. It follows the numerous FDI systems in place worldwide designed to protect national security (e.g. in other EU member States, the US with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), the UK with the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) and in China with the Foreign Investment Law (FIL). What is the purpose of Irish Screening Act?
A&L Goodbody Mondaq Profile
Brexit: The Fog Is Now Clear – The UK Is Not Extending The Transition Period
Update on Green Public Procurement Strategy and Action Plan
On 4 April 2024, the Government approved the Green Public Procurement Strategy and Action Plan.
Irish merger control 2023 review and 2024 preview.
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The CCPC’s Expanding Role in Digital Regulation
The Competition Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has been recently allocated with increased resources and new powers which will enable it to expand its role in regulating the digital economy. In its Strategy Statement 2024-2026 (the Strategy Statement) published on 15 November 2023, the CCPC acknowledges the need to adapt to the rapidly evolving digital sector and to ensure sufficient resources are targeted at the regulation of the digital and data space.
Sustainability Agreements and Competition Law
As environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals become a growing business priority, competition law is, in some ways, adapting to encourage or facilitate collaboration between competitors that promote these objectives. On 1 June 2023, the European Commission (Commission) published its revised guidelines on horizontal cooperation (Guidelines), which includes a chapter on sustainability agreements.
European Commission accepts further referrals of non-notifiable acquisitions from Member States under Article 22 EUMR
Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR) allows Member States to request the European Commission (Commission) to examine certain acquisitions, even where they do not meet EU merger control thresholds. Traditionally, the Commission has discouraged referrals of transactions which are non-reportable at a national level.
2023: Review of Irish merger control in 2022
2023 Review of Irish merger control in 2022 algoodbody.com Review of Irish merger control in 2022 68 NOTIFICATIONS 16% decline from the 81 notified in 2021 but 21% higher than the average over the previous three years 70 DETERMINATIONS There were more complex cases compared to previous years 1 PROHIBITION Uniphar/Navicorp the first prohibition since 2008 4 DETERMINATIONS subject to remedies Mixture of behavioural, structural and hybrid remedies these reflect more involved reviews of complex...
Regulatory Scrutiny
Click here to listen to the audio Earlier this year, we hosted our first PE webinar on "Current trends in a turbulent market", where a range of private equity themes and topics were discussed by our panel of experts. In this soundbite of webinar highlights, partner Anna-Marie Curran discusses how we are moving into an era of increased regulatory scrutiny for transactions in Ireland.
Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022 - Q&A
EU, COMPETITION AND PROCUREMENT Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022 - Q&A Ireland has published its draft Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) legislation entitled the Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022 (Bill). The Bill reflects the wider international focus on FDI controls across the EU as well as in the UK, the US and elsewhere.
COVID-19: European Commission publishes guidance on Public Procurement | Lexology
Public bodies across the globe urgently require essential goods and services to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. The European Commission has published helpful guidance which acknowledges that direct award of contracts to suppliers without tender competitions may be justified at this time. On 1 April 2020, the European Commission published welcome guidance on using the public procurement framework in the "emergency situation related to the COVID-19 crisis".
Brexit and Public Procurement | Lexology
European Union, Ireland, United Kingdom
February 13 2019 Companies tendering for public contracts in the UK and Ireland after 29 March 2019 (or such later date if extended) will need to be aware of the changes that Brexit will bring for public procurement. While the public procurement landscape in the UK will not change dramatically in the short term, there will be some changes in practice depending on whether there is a deal or no deal.
EU Package Travel Directive effective from 1 July 2018 - is your business prepared? | Lexology
The current Irish law (the Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act 1995 and the Transport (Tour Operators and Travel Agents Act) 1982) applies to 'traditional' package holidays combined by an organiser and sold at a single price. The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Directive (Directive 2015/2302) was introduced in 2015 to provide protection for the increasing number of consumers using the internet to combine travel services for the purposes of a single trip.
Forum Connemara Limited v Galway County Local Community Development Committee, judgment of Ryan J. of 21 December 2016 (27 January 2017)
The High Court has refused an application made by Forum Connemara Limited ("Forum Connemara") for a stay on the implementation of the decision made by Galway County Local Community Development Committee (the "Committee") to award Galway Rural Development Company Limited ("GRDCL") a contract for the implementation of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (“SIPAC”) in County Galway.
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