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Competition and EU regulatory
Field Fisher Waterhouse EU Regulatory group
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Our international Competition and EU
Regulatory Group assists businesses in a wide range of industries
to provide practical solutions to commercial situations.
In the area of EU regulatory law, our main
areas of expertise include:
- chemicals (e.g. REACH, classification and
labelling, marketing and use restrictions and any product related
legislation)
- pesticides
- biocides
- cosmetics
- food
- pharmaceuticals
- electronic products
- textiles
- medical devices
Our advice includes related business and
antitrust issues that arise when drafting and negotiating
commercial agreements or setting up task forces in the EU.
We also have strong expertise in the
regulatory and antitrust issues relating to the transport, energy
and telecommunications sectors, where our team has assisted clients
in key transactions for 15 years.
Our EU lawyers are also leaders in product
defence and in general the free movement of goods throughout the
European Community. We establish industry task forces, consortia
and associations, and guide clients through the maze of EU
regulations. In addition, we often lobby EU and Member State
institutions on our clients’ behalf before legislation is adopted
and, when necessary, represent their interests in related
litigation before the European Court of Justice, the European Court
of First Instance and the courts in various Member States. Our EU
regulatory team has been recommended by “EU Life Sciences” Report
for its “extensive industry knowledge and recognised expertise in
contentious regulatory matters”, and is often invited to speak at
major conferences on EU regulatory and litigation matters.
In the area of competition law, we help
clients manage competition risks and use competition laws to
leverage a better position for our clients. Emphasis is placed on
understanding the business sector in which the client is engaged.
We advise on the whole range of Belgian, UK and EC competition law
and have devised innovative and flexible legal solutions to the
problems that some of our highly individual projects have
presented, including:
- mergers
- joint ventures
- state aids
- licensing and distribution
- regulatory investigations
- franchising
- third party challenges to restrictive
practices
- parallel importation problems
- public procurement
- anti-dumping
We also have particular expertise in
designing and implementing competition law compliance programmes
and subject specific regulatory issues including food, cosmetics,
environmental, transport, energy, telecommunication and Waste
Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).