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Dornbracht has lost its appeal to the German Supreme Court against an order awarding damages to a retailer because of losses suffered due to an anticompetitive clause in Dornbracht’s distribution agreements.

Lately, more and more violations of the ban on vertical price fixing have been prosecuted by the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO).

On 12 July 2017, the German government adopted new provisions amending the German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung – "AWV").

As reported in the last issue of VBB on Competition Law (see VBB on Competition Law, Volume 2013, No. 9, available at www.vbb.com), on 19 September 2013 the higher regional court of Berlin handed down a judgment concerning the prohibition of sales over eBay in the context of a selective distribution system operated by Sternjakob.

The guidance explains the procedure for the proposal and implementation of remedies offered by the parties involved in the merger.

Germany will have a new ADA in the first half of the year 2005. Initiated by several EU directives, the German Government has recently presented the draft for a new ADA for discussion in the House of German Parliament (<I>Deutscher Bundestag</I>).

Wenn der Arbeitgeber keine nachvertraglichen Wettbewerbsverbote vereinbaren möchte, bzw. den dafür notwendigen finanziellen Aufwand der Karenzentschädigung scheut, versucht er ...

Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat im Februar 2025 in einem wichtigen Urteil „Android Auto" (EuGH, Urteil vom 25.2.2025, C‑233/23) die Anwendung der Essential-Facilities-Doctrine...

Deutsche Bahn changes its prices for the supply of electricity for locomotives and allows third parties access to its electrical grid to avoid margin squeeze allegations.

As the European Commission rolls out its revised Horizontal Guidelines (Guidelines) (following the adoption of the revised Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations on Research...

At the end of last year the "cathode ray tube cartel" attracted a lot of attention, when cathode ray tube manufacturers were fined a total of EUR 1.47 billion.

In a judgment of 22 August 2012, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf ("the Court"), referring to the ECJ’s Pfleiderer judgment (see VBB on Competition Law, Volume 2011, No. 6, available at www.vbb.com), clarified that third-party access to leniency applications of cartel participants may be denied in court proceedings.

The German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") – Bundeskartellamt – recently published its decision regarding so-called Radius Clauses used by a factory outlet center ("Outlet Center") in all its contracts with the tenants (Case No. B 1 - 62/13).

Market-dominant and powerful companies in Germany are subject to a number of rules that are significantly broader and stricter than the European Union's, Article 102 AEUV, which prohibits the abuse of a dominant position.

In Germany, a large number of transactions – in recent times, more than 1,000 each year – have to be reported to the national antitrust authority for merger control clearance.