UK:
Cooperation Projects During The COVID-19 Pandemic – A Useful Reminder That Competition Compliance Rules Still Apply
16 April 2021
Reed Smith (Worldwide)
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Ahead of a recent matchmaking event created with the aim of
supporting the acceleration and upscale of COVID-19 vaccine
production, the European Commission stipulated certain safeguards
in a comfort letter issued to the organisers. Our latest client alert serves as a useful reminder of
the practical safeguards that should always be in place when
companies, and in particular competing companies, meet to discuss
legitimate cooperation projects.
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