The BKartA this week imposed fines totalling €15.11 million on 12 German chemical wholesalers, active in the distribution of chemicals, on account of anti-competitive agreements.

This month's CLIP is a blog post by Adrian Deuschle covering a decision by the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) that found the narrow MFN clauses in Booking.com BV's terms and conditions incompatible with Art 101 TFEU.

On 19 November 2015, the Regional Court of Düsseldorf (the "Court") rejected a car insurer's claim for damages resulting from the European Commission's decision in the car glass cartel case.

On 10 June, the BKartA imposed fines of €115 million on five manufacturers of ophthalmic lenses in Germany, seven employees and the Central Association of Optometrists (ZVA) for their participation in cartel agreements.

On August 1, 2012, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) fined confectionary manufacturer Haribo EUR 2.4 Million (approximately US$ 3 Million) for illegally sharing competitively sensitive information with a competitor. The fine is significant insofar as it was imposed for a "stand-alone" information exchange violation.

Following an extensive analysis of the relevant markets in Germany and in Europe over a period of nearly 4 months, the BKartA has prohibited the acquisition of Karmann GmbH's ("Karmann")

On 10 February 2011 the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) imposed fines totalling approx. €20.5m on three manufacturers of fire engines for price fixing and quota agreements.

On 25 June 2013, the German Federal Cartel Office published new fining guidelines replacing the FCO’s previously applicable guidelines.

The German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) recently investigated a significant case involving so-called "Acqui-Hires."

Germany's Competition Authority ("the Bundeskartellamt") has imposed far-reaching restrictions in the processing of user data on Facebook.

The German FCO provided guidance on several hot antitrust topics in July 2017. While the guidance is contained in the FCO's report on its sector inquiry into the cement and ready-mix concrete markets...

In a recent judgment on the exchange of information between competitors, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) issued several findings that, unfortunately, contribute to greater uncertainty and therefore to a growing antitrust risk for undertakings (C-298/22 - Banco BPN).

On May 31, 2016, the German competition authority announced that it was launching a so-called "sector inquiry" into the hospital services market to examine the degree of competition in that sector of the economy.

Antitrust law currently entails innovations for e-commerce on an almost daily basis. Besides the advancing regulation of gatekeepers, the "rules of the game" of distribution-related antitrust law...

Das OLG Düsseldorf hat im sog. Süßwaren-Kartell bestätigt, dass nicht nur klassische Absprachen zwischen Unternehmen kartellrechtlich verboten sind...

The new Fining Guidelines are intended to put an end to such (extreme) discrepancies, which some have seen problematic even under German constitutional law.

This week, the BKartA imposed a fine of approx. € 1 million for price fixing and customer allocation against five manufacturers as well as a wholesaler of paper plates.

The constitutional complaint lodged by the Luxembourg Amazon Services Europe S.à r.l. against the high-profile decision of the Regional Court [Landgericht, LG] of Hanover of 22 July 2021 concerning an alleged violation ...

Wie viele Handelsbranchen befindet sich auch die Convenience-Industrie inmitten einer Zeitenwende. Von wachsender Konkurrenz durch neue Markteintritte...