Raising awareness about integrity and corruption prevention starts early, and initiatives like the Bundesamt zur Korruptionsprävention und Korruptionsbekämpfung (BAK)...

It was deemed to be enough, if the parent company has a significant influence on the business policy of the subsidiary.

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith famously wrote that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public...

In the first quarter of 2018, at the request of the FCA, the Austrian Cartel Court imposed fines for the implementation of a notifiable transaction prior to obtaining clearance in two separate cases.

As of 01 January 2017 amendments of the Austrian Act against Unfair Competition and of the Price Labelling Act come into force, which ban Best Price Clauses as "aggressive business practices" and declaring...

On 8 October 2015, the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice increased the fine against Spar, a food retailer, from € 3 million to € 30 million after upholding an earlier finding of illegal pricing agreements relating to dairy products.

Austria's Federal Competition Authority ("FCA") has issued its first comprehensive guidance on inspections of undertakings carried out by the FCA.

As of 1 January 2021, Bulgaria's Commission for the Protection of Competition (the "CPC") will be available for pre-notification discussions.

The Austrian Federal Competition Authority (FCA), together with the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO), has published an update to its guidelines on the application of the transaction value thresholds.

The Austrian Cartel and Competition Law Amendment Act 2021 (KaWeRÄG 2021) will introduce – in part substantial – amendments to the Austrian merger control regime as of 1 January 2022.

The Amendment of the Acts Governing Cartels and Competition was passed by Parliament on 30 March 2017 and will, in parts, be retroactively effective as of 1 May 2017.

On 6 November 2019, the German Cartel Office and the French Competition Authority published a joint report on the competition risks resulting from the use of algorithms (the "Report").

The amendment to the anti-trust law, which entered into force on 1 May 2017, also contains a new consideration test. From now on, it must be taken in account during mergers.

Welcome to the 7th edition of the DRInsider, the quarterly Newsletter of the Wolf Theiss Dispute Resolution Practice Group. We are happy to again provide you with interesting news covering the various CEE/SEE jurisdictions in which we practice.

On 15 October 2016, the Austrian Constitutional Court held that the Austrian gambling monopoly does not infringe upon the freedom to provide services under art.

Everyone knows that energy prices have soared in all EU Member States in 2022. The European Commission ("EC") has therefore initiated several proposals that would help consumers pay...

How quickly times are changing! Some six months ago I mentioned in the TTP editorial that "there was growing belief amongst regulators that competition may ...