
29th January 2024
Competition & State Aid Justice & Litigation
Today, official publication has been made of an action brought on 5 December 2023 by Booking Holdings Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, against the European Commission in Case T-1139/23, challenging the Decision C(2023) 6376 final of 25 September 2023 regarding the merger between Booking Holdings and eTraveli Group: Booking Holdings v Commission (Case T-1139/23).
Booking Holdings seeks the annulment of the Commission’s Decision and requests the Court to order the Commission to bear its own costs while covering the legal costs and other fees incurred by the applicant in connection with the application.
The applicant contends that the Decision deviates from the Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines (NHMG)’s anticompetitive fore
















