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Influencers Take Note: MCCA Has Published Guidelines for Sponsored Content Antitrust, Competition and Trade

Influencers Take Note: MCCA Has Published Guidelines for Sponsored Content

Are you an influencer? Take note! The Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority has now published guidelines that influencers should follow when uploading sponsored posts on social media platforms. We all know how important advertising is in the business world and, with the number of sponsored posts that are flooding social media platforms, businesses have taken to use influencers as the new powerhouses of digital marketing. As was discussed in our previous article on the topic, we do not have laws that specifically regulate influencer marketing. However, the Consumer Affairs Act – which transposes the provisions of the Unfair Trading…
Laura Spiteri
4th December 2024
Ensuring Product Safety in the Age of AI
AI in a Consumer-Driven World: Ensuring Product Safety in the Age of AI Antitrust, Competition and Trade

AI in a Consumer-Driven World: Ensuring Product Safety in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (‘AI’) is revolutionising various industries and in today’s consumer-driven world, ensuring the safety of products is of paramount importance, more so when considering the innovative products being placed on the market. At the core of the AI Act are requirements that providers, manufacturers, importers, and distributors of AI systems must meet before making an AI system available for use or distribution on the Union market. These requirements cover AI systems that are, or that are safety components of, products such as toys, lifts, radio equipment, and medical devices which are classified as “high-risk” – that is AI systems…
Laura Spiteri
25th November 2024
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EU Commission Publishes Findings on EU Competition Enforcement Framework Antitrust, Competition and Trade

EU Commission Publishes Findings on EU Competition Enforcement Framework

On 5 September 2024, the European Commission published a “Staff Working Document”  summarising the findings of the evaluation of two EU Regulations, Regulation 1/2003 and Regulation 773/2004, which concern the enforcement of EU competition law. These Regulations, which entered into force 20 years ago, lay out the procedural framework for the implementation of EU competition rules laid down in Articles 101 and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (“TFEU”). The evaluation exercise by the Commission has concluded that, in general, these Regulations have achieved their objective for effective, efficient and uniform application of EU competition law.  It has also noted that…
Mamo TCV Advocates
18th September 2024
European Parliament, Strasbourg
Draft Guidelines on Abusive Exclusionary Conduct Antitrust, Competition and Trade

Draft Guidelines on Abusive Exclusionary Conduct

In August 2024 the European Commission published draft guidelines on the application of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”) to abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings. Rather than the current guidance on enforcement priorities, this document has taken the shape of guidelines proper, similar to those found in respect of Article 101 TFEU. The intention is therefore that undertakings, legal counsel and competition authorities follow the doctrine laid out in the eventual guidelines when applying Article 102 TFEU to conduct by dominant undertakings that may be exclusionary in nature. Although the draft cites…
Annalies Muscat
12th September 2024
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Mamo TCV Advocates to Attend “Dawn Raids in Practice” in Malta Antitrust, Competition and TradeNews

Mamo TCV Advocates to Attend “Dawn Raids in Practice” in Malta

Dr Annalies Muscat and Dr Laura Spiteri, both senior associates within the Antitrust, Competition and Trade department at Mamo TCV Advocates, will be attending the ERA conference “Dawn Raids in Practice” being held in Valletta, Malta between 26 and 27 September 2024. Get in touch with Annalies or Laura to connect or schedule a meeting.
Mamo TCV Advocates
10th September 2024
Legal Update
Malta Business Registry Issues Notice Regarding Memoranda and Articles of Association Antitrust, Competition and TradeCorporate and M&ARegulatory Compliance

Malta Business Registry Issues Notice Regarding Memoranda and Articles of Association

On the 29thJuly, the Malta Business Registry (MBR) issued a notice advising that any memoranda and articles of association being filed with the Registrar of Companies, whether in the course of an incorporation of a new company or as an amendment to memoranda and articles of association of companies already registered, need to be amended in order to refer to certain notification obligations which Maltese companies may be subject to. The required amendment relates to the objects clause of a company’s memorandum and articles of association and the proviso which is generally included which provides that the objects for which…
Mamo TCV Advocates
30th July 2024