EU Competition Law

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March 22, 2021	Mr. Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper morning edition's article page 13 of March 22, 2021, " EU's Severe Decision on Division of Market - EU Committee Impose Sanctions against Japanese Companies on their Territorial Restrictions".
March 10, 2021	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper Electronic Edition's article of March 10, 2021, "EU Enforces Sanctions against "Territorial restrictions" on Product Distribution- Japanese Companies also on the Alert"
January 11, 2021	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper morning edition's article of January 11, 2021, "EU Drafted New Big Tech Regulations - against their Threat to Democracy"
January 1, 2021	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper morning edition's article of January 1, 2021, "Eyeing for Big Tech Regulations - Countries Distressed by a Risk of Market Monopoly".
December 31, 2020	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper Electronic Edition's article of December 31, 2020, "Eyeing for Big Tech Regulations - Countries Distressed by a Risk of Market Monopoly".
December 23, 2020	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper Electronic Edition's article of December 23, 2020, "Big Techs pose a threat to Democracy - New EU Regulations suggest a sense of crisis"
September 24, 2020	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Yomiuri Newspaper's special commentary section of September 24, 2020, "The Meteorological Agency has stopped advertisement on their Website - Administrating 'Managed Advertisement' has its Limit"
September 16, 2020	Lecture "Most Recent Trends in the EU Competition Law Enforcement in relation to Japanese Companies" (held by Epiq Systems: "Web Seminar: Japan-EMEA Antitrust Risk Q&A Panel Discussion") (Tokyo, Japan)
April 25, 2020	"Standard Essential Patent & EU Competition Law," 31st article in the series "Intellectual Property Law and Seeds of Business"
September 6, 2019	Seminar "Recent EU Competition Policy"　(held by the Fair Trade Institute)
April 11, 2019	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the MLex Market Insight's article of April 11, 2019, "Comment: Digital platform rules push brings Japan's competition and privacy regulators together even as data portability drives fresh divisions"
April 1, 2019	Lecture "Practice in the Commitment Procedures" (held by the Competition Law Forum)
April 1, 2019	"Personal Information Protection in Europe under the Competition Policy"
April 1, 2019	"The German Federal Cartel Office's Decision against Facebook under the German Competition Act"
December 7, 2018	Reporter 2nd Session "Personal Information Protection and Competition Policy" "New Competition Policy in the Digitalized Society - Platform & Personal Information Protection" 　（held by the Japan Fair Trade Commission, Competition Policy Research Center）
June 25, 2018	"Special Feature - the Start of the Implementation of the GDPR "EU Competition Law and Profiling Regulations and Data Portability Rights""
April 26, 2018	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper's article of April 26, 2018, "EU Regulates Internet Giants After 4 years - a Hole the Antitrust Law to be Filled"
March 15, 2018	Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper's article of March 15, 2018, "Daiei in the past, Amazon in the present: What is Overuse of Superior Bargaining Position"
June 24, 2017	"Special Feature - the Platform and Competition Law - "Personal Data Protection and Competition Law" - a Turning Point by the Amendments to the Guidelines Concerning Distribution Systems and Business Practices"
June 23, 2017	Lecture "EU's Commitment Procedures" （held by Japan Fair Trade Commission）

March 22, 2021

Mr. Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper morning edition's article page 13 of March 22, 2021, " EU's Severe Decision on Division of Market - EU Committee Impose Sanctions against Japanese Companies on their Territorial Restrictions".

March 10, 2021

Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper Electronic Edition's article of March 10, 2021, "EU Enforces Sanctions against "Territorial restrictions" on Product Distribution- Japanese Companies also on the Alert"

January 11, 2021

Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper morning edition's article of January 11, 2021, "EU Drafted New Big Tech Regulations - against their Threat to Democracy"

January 1, 2021

Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper morning edition's article of January 1, 2021, "Eyeing for Big Tech Regulations - Countries Distressed by a Risk of Market Monopoly".

December 31, 2020

Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper Electronic Edition's article of December 31, 2020, "Eyeing for Big Tech Regulations - Countries Distressed by a Risk of Market Monopoly".

December 23, 2020

Mr. Takeshige Sugimoto's comments were cited in the Nikkei Newspaper Electronic Edition's article of December 23, 2020, "Big Techs pose a threat to Democracy - New EU Regulations suggest a sense of crisis"