By Decision 208-FO-03 of 26 June 2018, the
Competition Council ("Council") closed
the file against Luxlait for the alleged imposition of resale
prices (so-called "resale price maintenance") in
violation of the Law of 3 October 2011 on Competition, as amended
("Law") and Article 101 of the Treaty of
the Functioning of the European Union
("TFEU"), without imposing a fine.
The case was launched in 2010 by a complaint from a retail
distributor alleging that Luxlait refused to enter into a contract
with him. This distributor explained the refusal by his aggressive
pricing policy seeking to maintain the lowest prices in the market
whereas Luxlait would have wanted to control resale prices and also
alleged involvement by Luxlait to prevent him from establishing a
commercial relationship with a wholesale distributor for certain
Luxlait products.
