On Tuesday 1 March, the European Commission launched a public consultation inviting all interested parties to comment on two draft revised Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations on Research & Development (“R&D”) and Specialisation agreements (“R&D BER” and “Specialisation BER” respectively, together “HBERs”) as well as on the draft revised Horizontal Guidelines.
The aim is to adapt the current rules in specific areas where the evaluation has found that they were not fully...