Insights and Analysis | Concurrences | 22 November 2021

COVID-19 and cooperation: Changes in competitive law?

No country, business, organization or individual has been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is also true for competition law and, in particular, cooperation and collaboration arrangements between competitors (co-opetition) to address challenges created by the pandemic. This article surveys the guidance given, and other actions taken, by multilateral organisations and individual competition authorities in relation to these arrangements. It also looks at the impact this experience is likely to have in the future as the worlds starts to return to the - new - normal.

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Reference: "Rachel Brandenburger, Christian Ritz, COVID-19 and cooperation : Changes in competition law ?, novembre 2021, Concurrences N° 4-2021, Art. N° 102862, www.concurrences.com"