Software Suppliers Beware Of Multiyear Irrevocable Contracts – Commitments To DCCA By Dominant Supplier Of Software.

The Danish Competition Council has recently approved commitments from the software supplier Wolters Kluwer Danmark A/S ("Wolters Kluwer"), which inter alia provides software for calculation of personal taxes to accountants and tax advisors. The commitments are made subsequent to concerns raised by the Danish Competition Council (“DCC”) against Wolters Kluwer's usage of irrevocability clauses and conditional discounts.

In its investigation of Wolters Kluwer's contractual terms the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority (“DCCA”) found that several of the supply agreements contained irrevocability clauses with a duration of up to three years and four months and/or terms making discounts conditional on customers entering into multi-year agreements.