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What does Requirements mean? In Development Consent Order (DCO) practice, Requirements are the binding conditions that regulate how, when and on what detailed terms the authorised development may proceed. They typically oblige the undertaker to submit and secure approval of detailed design, construction, and environmental management documents (for example, CEMP, traffic, landscape, contamination and archaeology plans) before commencement, phased works or operation. The term is used in legislation: section 120 of the Planning Act 2008 permits a DCO to impose “requirements”. In most DCOs they are set out in a schedule (often Schedule 2) and function similarly to planning conditions under the Town and Country...

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CJEU in MEO (C‑525/16) clarifies Article 102(c) TFEU: discriminatory pricing only abusive where effects-based analysis shows competitive disadvantage; no requirement to quantify harm

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CASE HUB ARCHIVED – this archived case hub sets out the position as at the decision date of 19 April 2018; it is no longer updated. See further: timeline, commentary and related/relevant cases

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A request for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU was made by the Portuguese Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão to the Court of Justice, seeking guidance on the criteria for proving a ‘discriminatory pricing’ infringement under Article 102(c) TFEU—including whether any restrictive effects identified must be appreciable to engage the prohibition. The reference emerges from domestic proceedings in Portugal concerning a dispute between MEO—Serviços de Comunicações e Multimedia SA (the consumer brand of Portugal Telecom, Portugal’s principal Telecommunications operator) and the Portuguese Competition Authority. MEO challenges the refusal of a complaint it filed against the performers’ rights collecting society, Cooperativa de Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas Intérpretes ou Executantes (GDA), alleging that GDA’s application of differentiated wholesale tariffs for artists’ rights licences constituted an abuse of its dominant position within the meaning of Article 102(c) TFEU...

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