European Commission
Role in each timeline
- Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits
Received the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative and declined to propose a legal obligation to preserve playability after sale.
- The US–Canada Trade War: From the Fentanyl Tariffs to Section 338 and Dollar-for-Dollar Retaliation
EU executive body whose president made the associate-membership proposal.
- Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
EU merger authority that cleared Run:ai after Italy's Article 22 referral and is expected to review the pending Hugging Face acquisition.
- Xbox Game Pass: The Price Rise, the Reversal and the Metered Cloud
EU regulator whose Activision cloud-streaming commitments run until October 2033.
European Commission across every timeline
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20264 entries
- Von der Leyen proposes EU associate membership for Canada Announcement
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening the way for Canada to become the European Union's first associate member. Mark Carney welcomed a proposal for a Canada-EU alliance beyond CETA.
on The US–Canada Trade War: From the Fentanyl Tariffs to Section 338 and Dollar-for-Dollar Retaliation - The Commission says it cannot require publishers to keep games playable Regulatory
In its formal answer the Commission concluded it could not propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable once they stop being sold, pointing to intellectual property and copyright constraints. It offered instead to work on a code of conduct for managing the end of a game's life.
on Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits - Organisers put their case to two commissioners Update
The initiative's organisers met Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Commissioner Michael McGrath, the hearing the ECI Regulation entitles them to before the Commission replies.
on Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits - The initiative is submitted to the Commission with 1,294,188 verified signatures Update
After national verification, Stop Destroying Videogames became one of the few citizens' initiatives to reach the Commission, which then had six months to answer.
on Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits
20252 entries
- Stop Killing Games passes a million signatures in the EU Update
The European Citizens' Initiative started after The Crew went dark crossed one million signatures in at least seven member states, the threshold that forces the European Commission to respond. Organisers Aleksej Vjalicin and Daniel Ondruska had until the end of July to collect them.
on Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits - Nvidia seeks annulment of Run:ai referral decision Legal
Nvidia brought an action seeking annulment of the European Commission's October 31, 2024 decision on Italy's referral request. The action concerned the Run:ai transaction.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
20244 entries
- European Commission clears Run:ai unconditionally in its first post-Illumina Article 22 case Regulatory
Although the deal fell below EU turnover thresholds, Italy's competition authority referred it to Brussels under Article 22 and the Commission opened a review in November. It found Run:ai had no significant position in GPU orchestration software and that customers had credible alternatives, and approved the deal without conditions; the US Justice Department had also examined it.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face - Italy refers Run:ai transaction to European Commission Regulatory
Italy's competition authority submitted an Article 22 referral request concerning Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Run:ai. The request was sent to the European Commission.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face - Italy calls in Nvidia's proposed Run:ai acquisition Regulatory
Italy's competition authority considered Nvidia's proposed Run:ai acquisition to meet applicable conditions of the Italian Competition Act. The authority exercised its call-in power over the transaction.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face - European Commission register publishes Stop Destroying Videogames initiative Regulatory
The European Citizens' Initiative register published Stop Destroying Videogames. The initiative calls for publishers selling or licensing games in the EU to leave games playable.
on Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits
20211 entry
- FTC sues to block the Arm acquisition as a vertical threat to chip competition Legal
The Federal Trade Commission voted 4-0 to challenge the deal, arguing that owning Arm would let Nvidia stifle rivals that depend on Arm designs in data center CPUs, automotive and DPUs, and give it access to competitors' confidential information. The UK's CMA had already opened an in-depth probe on national-security and competition grounds and the European Commission a Phase 2 review.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
20201 entry
- China's SAMR clears Mellanox with conditions after a year-long review Regulatory
Thirteen months after signing, China's State Administration for Market Regulation became the last authority to approve the deal, attaching behavioural conditions for six years: no bundling of GPUs with networking gear, supply on fair and non-discriminatory terms, and no restricting Chinese customers' access. The EU, Mexico and the US waiting period had already cleared.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face