2022. Feb 4. | Competition Law
The Commission guidance regarding consumer protection directives has been updated. The European Commission’s long-awaited interpretation of the Directive concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices (UCP Directive) was finally published in the form of a...
2021. Dec 20. | Competition Law
The latest decisions of the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) have once again drawn the attention to the strict consumer protection-type inspections on advertising to children. Experts from our Competition & Compliance group present the recent decisions and...
2021. Dec 3. | Competition Law
According to its press release issued on 28 September 2021, the Hungarian Competition Authority (“HCA”), which has adopted an increasingly strict approach recently, imposed another large fine of nearly € 300 000 for a breach of consumer protection law....
2021. Feb 17. | Competition Law
2020 was a year of continued growth and expansion for CERHA HEMPEL’s Competition Group. After leading the compliance department of the MOL Group for a year, Márton Kocsis re-joined our team in the spring and took over the management of the Competition Group, and now...
2020. Jul 15. | Competition Law
The Hungarian Competition Authority (“HCA”) states in its latest decision that the “Black Friday” campaign’s commercial communications by Alza.hu Kft. and Alza.cz a.s. mislead consumers by giving the impression that consumers could get a significant discount of up to...
2020. Jul 13. | Competition Law
A fair bit of storm has been kicked up by a recent piece of draft legislation that would add a new rule to the Act on Commerce, prohibiting places of hospitality and large beer and soft drink producers from entering into exclusive contracts and thereby limiting...