Der EuGH hat heute über Beschränkungen im Onlinehandel für Luxusmarken entschieden.

Germany's Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has published two documents summarizing its activities for the public: a more detailed "Activities Report" for the years 2015 and 2016 and the high-level...

On 21 December 2011, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (the Court), sitting as the court of last instance, decided an important case concerning the right of a manufacturer of passenger vehicles to refuse to appoint a repairer applying to be admitted to its authorised repair network.

On 18 January 2012, the Local Court of Bonn (the Bonn Court) upheld the decision of the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) refusing Pfleiderer AG, a manufacturer of wood products and laminate flooring (and also a customer of all three participants of a former decor paper cartel) unlimited access to the FCO’s corresponding cartel file.

On 25.11.2021, the FCO published its "self-cleaning" guidelines, specifying the conditions under which companies that have been found by a binding and final decision to have engaged...

Alstom Power Systems GmbH ("Alstom"), a German subsidiary of the French company Alstom SA, and a manufacturer of boilers for brown coal power stations, together with two of its former managers, was fined approx. €91 million by the German Federal Cartel Office ("BKartA") on Thursday, 12 August, for bid-rigging, which included the assignment of customers as well as fixing quotas and prices with its competitors when participating in large public tenders.

In 2006, the FCO had previously found that SodaStream (then known as Soda Club) had abused its dominant position on the German market for the refilling of gas cylinders.

By decision of 15 May 2012, recently published, the German Federal Court of Justice ("the Court") annulled a decision of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart ("HRCS"), by which the latter had annulled a decision of the federal cartel office ("FCO") finding that a dominant water supplier had imposed excessive prices on its retail customers.

In a decision of 26 February 2013, the German Federal Court of Justice has confirmed the constitutionality of Section 81(4), 2nd sentence, of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition.

On 8 June 2010, the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) ruled that the prohibition of the merger between the publishing company Axel Springer AG and the television stations ProSieben and -SAT1 was lawful.

The BKartA's decision to prohibit the intended acquisition of Swiss firm GN ReSound's hearing device business by Danish firm Phonak (now "Sonova") in early April 2007 had caused the parties to abandon the transaction.

The German government has recently published a bill that would significantly amend the criteria for determining whether an M&A transaction is subject to German merger control.

Das Finanzgericht Köln hat am 1. Februar 2017 eine Entscheidung veröffentlicht zur steuerlichen Geltendmachung von Kartellbußgeldern.

Nach den Feststellungen der Kommission verpflichtete sich Qualcomm im Jahr 2011 in einer Vereinbarung mit Apple, erhebliche Zahlungen dafür zu leisten...

The Bundeskartellamt had abused their dominant position by entering into anti-competitive discount agreements for television advertising with advertising agencies.

According to industry sources, Nestlé will not agree to a settlement with the BKartA in the case brought against it for the exchange of competitively relevant information.

The German competition law regulator set out its preliminary view that the way Asics distributed its products to consumers restricted competition.

On 30 June 2013, the Eighth Amendment to the German Act Against Restraints of Competition has entered into force.

The BKartA has recently launched a sector enquiry into the food retail sector, focussing on the competitive conditions on the procurement markets for food and luxury foods for retailers.

Now, the OLG Düsseldorf has suspended the FCO's decision.