Günther Oettinger, the EU Commissioner for Energy, is intending to make recommendations on the creation of a truly integrated EU energy market.

German competition law reform with a focus on civil follow-on actions in Germany.

Yesterday, the BKartA fined three consumer goods manufacturers for anti-competitive information exchanges amounting to € 38 million in total.

In July, the Federal Network Agency announced that its draft proposal for new transparency rules will be forwarded to the German parliament for approval soon.

The German business magazine Handelsblatt Rechtsboard recently published Frankfurt-based Antitrust associate Dr. Jens Steger's article on proposed updates to Germany's competition laws.

The German Competition Authority ("BKartA") has published a note detailing the effect which the recent changes to the Act against Restraints of Competition ("GWB") will have with respect to the need for merger control filings in property transactions.

The gas and energy sector has been under close scrutiny by the German Federal Competition Office ("BKartA") and the German government. It could only be a matter of time before other member states' authorities follow suit.

According to German telemedia law, each person and company maintaining an own website to sell goods or services is required to make available certain information.

The BKartA has cleared a merger between two press distributors, Roth+Horsch Pressevertrieb GmbH & Co. KG, Weiterstadt ("Roth+Horsch") and Presse Vertrieb Pfalz GmbH & Co. KG, Frankenthal ("PV Pfalz").

On 19 July 2010, the German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") decided to close the proceedings against the German branch of the US agency AP and the German news service ddp for not notifying their merger to the FCO.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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").

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

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