The German Federal Cartel Office ("BKartA") has yet again fined a distributor for committing an infringement of competition law relating to resale price maintenance ("RPM").

Nach Inkrafttreten von § 19a GWB im Januar will der Digital Markets Act nun auch auf europäischer Ebene neue Regeln für die Digitalwirtschaft setzen.

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The Court rejected part of the claim for purchases which fell outside the period of MAN's involvement in the infringement.

In 2014, under the terms of a promotional offer, the defendant, a manufacturer of the diet product A-Vitalkost, offered pharmacies a 30% discount on a one-off direct order of 12 to 90 cans of the product.

In a judgment of 26 February 2013, the German Regional Court of Cologne rejected an action for damages in the amount of more than € 1.1 billion.

In a decision of 19 December 2012, the German Federal Constitutional Court confirmed that the obligation to pay interests on fines imposed on a company by a decision of a cartel authority, as laid down in the German Act Against Restraints of Competition, is compatible with the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany.

On 26 November 2015, the Regional Court of Düsseldorf (14c O 124/15) ruled that a marketer's claim that its condoms corresponded to up to three orgasms each was "deceptive" and could tempt people to use the condoms several times.

New law regulates commercial dealings between suppliers and comparatively larger buyers of food and agricultural products.

The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has in the past six months imposed fines for three violations of the antitrust rules against resale price maintenance (RPM).

Das Bundeskartellamt (BKartA) hatte am 4. Dezember 2017 dem Unternehmen CTS Eventim (Eventim) die Verwendung von Exklusivvereinbarungen mit dessen Veranstaltern und Vorverkaufsstellen untersagt.

Das Bundeskartellamt (BKartA) hat am 25. Januar 2017 Hinweise zum Preisbindungsverbot herausgegeben.

Ein aktueller Fall des Bundeskartellamts zeigt in besonderer Deutlichkeit, dass (kartellrechtliche) Compliance-Schulungen allein noch...

On 1 August 2012 the Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") [Bundeskartellamt, BKA] fined the confectioner Haribo and its responsible sales staff a sum of ca. € 2.4 million for impermissibly exchanging sensitive competitive information.