MLex Statement: UK taxpayers are paying suppliers as much as £3.5 billion more a year because of rigged bids in public procurement projects, Competition and Markets Authority chief Sarah Cardell said in a spee... (more story)

The head of India's antitrust watchdog, Ravneet Kaur warned that agentic artificial intelligence could enable autonomous coordination or exclusion, signaling closer scrutiny under the Competition Commission of... (more story)

The Netherlands was granted one additional month by the European Commission to respond to allegations that its rules on railway capacity allocation breach competition law, a spokesperson for the State Secretar... (more story)

The EU’s top court has drawn the line between political parody and trademark protection, saying Vlaams Belang’s Ikea-themed immigration campaign was likely unjustified even as it recognized that free speech ca... (more story)

China will strengthen intellectual property protection in emerging fields, speed the commercialization of research results and deepen international cooperation as it begins the 15th Five-Year Plan, which runs ... (more story)

Naver told a South Korean court on Tuesday that its use of news content from the country’s three largest television broadcasters to train artificial intelligence models complied with content-sharing contracts ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission has launched a review of its International Procurement Instrument, the trade tool that allows it to restrict access to EU public tenders when third countries discriminate ... (more story)

Cuts to development funding, fragmented financing and the EU’s slow, demanding approach to projects could weaken the bloc’s ability to secure critical raw materials and make it a less attractive partner than C... (more story)

China began requiring importers of Japanese dichlorosilane, a chemical gas used in semiconductor manufacturing, to post provisional dumping deposits of 80.8 percent to 99.2 percent starting Tuesday after the c... (more story)

MLex Summary: UK public service broadcasters could face changes to broadcasting rules as audiences shift to digital and social media platforms, the country's communications regulator said Tuesday. Ofcom  said ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The UK government should strengthen regulators’ technical capacity to oversee digital technology, should use public procurement rules to support interoperability, and should define digital sovere... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Australian government has announced the release of its draft legislation for the digital duty of care on Tuesday for targeted consultation. In a joint statement, Australia’s prime minister An... (more story)