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The European Commission recently revised its Guidelines on Horizontal Cooperation Agreements. This alert is the fourth and last in a series of alerts in which we provide practical guidance, in light of these revised Guidelines, on how to make antitrust-related assessments for various types of agreements between competitors.

At the beginning of the year, we brought to your attention that a number of important Belgian and EU legislative changes are likely to have an impact in 2024: there are new laws that have been adopted and proposals that are expected to firm up into law.

More than 25 years after the adoption of the original Market Definition Notice in 1997, the European Commission published a revised Market Definition Notice earlier this year. The definition of relevant markets is often the first step in a competition analysis and forms the basis for calculating undertakings’ market shares and thus their level of market power.