ICLG – Competition Litigation Laws and Regulations – Finland chapter covers common issues in competition litigation law and regulations – including interim remedies, final remedies, evidence...

The European Commission conducted surprise on-site inspections of a "consultancy firm" in two EU Member States, suspecting the firm of violating antitrust rules under Article 101...

According to the Act such goods and services whose market-based supply and demand fail to meet the ideal level in society are eligible for support by the state.

In July 2022, the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland upheld the Market Court's decision to impose penalties on construction insulation manufacturers for participating in cartel conduct through price fixing.

The Finnish Consumer and Competition Authority ("FCCA") has published new guidance notices on the Finnish merger control procedure.

The Ministry of Employment and the Economy has sent a draft Government Proposal concerning competition neutrality in publicly controlled companies for public hearing.

According to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority ("FCCA"), the current national turnover thresholds allow harmful merges to escape scrutiny by the authority.

On 20 December 2011, the Finnish Market Court imposed a fine of € 3 million on Iittala Group Oy Ab, a Finnish design company specialising in houseware goods, for having implemented resale price restrictions infringing Finnish competition law.

For the first time in Finnish merger control history, parties to a merger committed to an upfront-buyer provision. On 19 April 2021, the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority ("FCCA") ...

On 24 June 2021, the latest amendments of the Finnish Competition Act entered into force. The modifications were mostly based on the Directive 2019/1 ("ECN+ Directive")...

The government has issued a proposal on 19 September 2022 to amend the Finnish Act on Competition. The government proposes to decrease the jurisdictional thresholds for an obligation...

The Finnish government has recently addressed a legislative proposal to the Finnish Parliament regarding amending the Finnish Competition Act.

The extensive asphalt cartel trial in Finland attracted the interest of the European Commission and the other EU Member States.

In the beginning of June, the European Commission approved new guidelines for cooperation between competitors in projects that involve sustainability objectives.

The Finnish Government submitted a Government Bill to the Finnish Parliament in September 2022, suggesting that the notification threshold for mergers and acquisitions be lowered following an earlier proposal by the FCCA in the summer of 2021.

The Market Court confirmed in its judgment delivered in December 2022 to a large extent the findings issued by the FCCA in 2021.

In its judgment delivered on July 1, 2022, the Finnish Supreme Administrative Court ("SAC") reviewed on appeal the prior judgment issued by the Finnish Market Court in 2021...

A proposal by the Finnish Government to lower the national merger control thresholds will significantly increase the number of transactions notifiable to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.

Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto (KKV) esittää ensimmäistä kertaa seuraamusmaksua yllätystarkastuksen vastustamisesta. KKV:n mukaan yllätystarkastuksen...

As of 1 September 2013, the Finnish Competition Act has a new addition—Chapter 4a.