With its decision today, the Federal Court of Justice has confirmed Apple's cross-market significance for competition. The group, which is the most valuable company in the world with a market value of over 3 trillion US dollars, is now subject to increased supervision by the Federal Cartel Office.

On 05.04.2023, the Federal Cabinet adopted the 11th GWB amendment. Colloquially known as the Competition Enforcement Act, the amendment provides for a far-reaching expansion of the powers of the Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, BKartA). The centrepiece is the new powers of intervention in connection with sector enquiries modelled on the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The government draft will now be forwarded to the Bundestag and Bundesrat. This two-part article provides an overview of the planned innovations and assesses the impact on practice. Part 1 of the article first deals with the new sector enquiry.

After the first two articles have presented the current and future regulatory framework, the final article of this trilogy now provides an outlook on how ICOs are likely to develop in the future under MiCA.

In today's second part of this article trilogy, future regulation under MiCA is presented.

Every Year the International Bar Association hosts an Annual Conference; this year 2022 in Miami, FL. HÄRTING was represented by Marlene Schreiber, Niko Härting and Martin Schirmbacher.

Another step in the fight against the "high price island of Switzerland" - With the ban on geo-blocking and the extension of the ban on abuse.

Switzerland wants to establish itself globally as a leading location in artificial intelligence ("AI"), but without creating a regulatory framework for this. In this regard, the Swiss government refers to the regulations in the revised Data Protection Act (nDSG). Meanwhile, the EU has done just that with its new regulation on AI - created a legal framework in which the requirements for transparency and accountability are clearly defined, not left to data protection, and violations are subject to heavy penalties.