{"id":13594,"date":"2026-07-27T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:23:47","slug":"antitrust-the-italian-administrative-court-of-first-instance-dismissed-an-appeal-against-a-decision-to-accept-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/antitrust-the-italian-administrative-court-of-first-instance-dismissed-an-appeal-against-a-decision-to-accept-commitments\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTITRUST | The Italian Administrative Court of First Instance dismissed an appeal against a decision to accept commitments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 July 2026 the Italian Administrative Court of First Instance (<em>TAR Lazio<\/em>)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mdp.giustizia-amministrativa.it\/visualizza\/?nodeRef=&amp;schema=tar_rm&amp;nrg=202514978&amp;nomeFile=202612423_01.html&amp;subDir=Provvedimenti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed<\/a>\u00a0the appeal lodged by certain companies operating in the maritime freight and passenger transport sector seeking the annulment of a decision by which the Italian Competition Authority\u00a0(<em>ICA<\/em>)\u00a0had accepted the structural and\u00a0behavioral\u00a0commitments submitted by\u00a0different\u00a0companies (the <strong><em>Companies<\/em><\/strong>) operating in the same sector. More specifically, the ICA\u00a0deemed\u00a0the\u00a0commitments submitted by the Companies\u00a0suitable for removing the risks associated with the possible existence of a cartel contrary to Article 101\u00a0of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (<em>TFEU<\/em>), arising from the conclusion of corporate and financial agreements between the Companies.\u00a0In its judgment,\u00a0the TAR\u00a0Lazio noted that the\u00a0ICA\u00a0enjoys broad discretion as to both the substance and the manner of accepting proposed commitments, from which it follows that the administrative court\u2019s review is limited to assessing the completeness and truthfulness of the facts adduced and the absence of manifest errors or unlawfulness. On the merits,\u00a0the TAR\u00a0Lazio\u00a0held that\u00a0the appeal\u00a0was\u00a0unfounded,\u00a0deeming\u00a0the ICA\u2019s decision to be reasonable and supported by consistent forward-looking financial documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Newsletter n. 120 &#8211; July 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 July 2026 the Italian Administrative Court of First Instance (TAR Lazio)\u00a0dismissed\u00a0the appeal lodged by certain companies operating in the maritime freight and passenger transport sector seeking the annulment of a decision by which the Italian Competition Authority\u00a0(ICA)\u00a0had accepted the structural and\u00a0behavioral\u00a0commitments submitted by\u00a0different\u00a0companies (the Companies) operating in the same sector. More specifically, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13595,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions\/13595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}