Tag: Bundeskartellamt
Germany: Potato processors fined for cartel activities
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has fined two potato and onion packaging companies €13.2 million (US$15.8 million) for participating in an eight-year price fixing cartel....
Data Accumulation and the Privacy-Antitrust Interface: Insights from the Facebook Case...
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Data Accumulation and the Privacy-Antitrust Interface: Insights from the Facebook Case for the EU and the US
By Giuseppe Colangelo...
EU: Ryanair lodges complaints with German and EU Competition authorities
Ryanair has lodged competition complaints with the German Bundeskartellamt and the European Commission (EC) regarding the “obvious conspiracy playing out in Germany between the...
EU: Vestager warns against using algorithms for price collusion
Europe's antitrust chief warned companies against using algorithms to block rivals or form cartels, saying she may slap heftier fines on them if they...
Germany: Lufthansa may lease aircraft from Air Berlin
The Bundeskartellamt has cleared the wet-lease agreement on 38 passenger aircraft between Lufthansa and Air Berlin. The agreement was proactively notified by the parties...
Germany: Regulator clears HERE stake purchases by Intel
Germany's Federal Cartel Office said on Tuesday it had approved stake purchases in German digital mapping firm HERE by US chip maker Intel and...
Enforcement In Digital Markets
By Dr. Anna Blume Huttenlauch-
Andreas Mundt, president of the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”), recently emphasized the important role of competition authorities in tackling...
Germany: Five furniture firms fined over price fixing
Germany’s national competition regulator, The Federal Cartel Office, has fined five furniture manufacturers for price fixing in the resale of furniture on retailers.
The fines...
How Many “Likes” for the German Facebook Antitrust Probe?
By Dr. Anna Blume Huttenlauch -
The German Federal Cartel Office caused quite a stir, not only among antitrust lawyers, when it recently announced that it...
CPI Talks: Interview with Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt
In this issue CPI interviews Andreas Mundt about the recent report on Market Power in the Digital Markets, the joint report with the French...
