Tibi Kasza got off without fine – but what about the next one?
Even the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) pays attention to influencers By now everybody knows that there are “influencers” in social media. In the HCA’s definition, these are people who have the ability to influence the opinion of consumers and share content on...
Accusation against the German car manufactures: the cartel case of the decade?
Will environmental protection be the cause for the fall of cartelists? The German car industry’s troubles started with the diesel scandal in 2015. As everyone knows, it was discovered in 2015 that Volkswagen used various forms of manipulation to ensure that its diesel...
Exclusion of online market places from distribution: is the tide turning?
According to the French Supreme Court, prohibiting an authorized distributor from selling on certain market place is not necessarily a strict restriction of competition. Case history With its decision on 13 September 2017, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation)...
The defendants’ bench is full: more massive fines in the trucks cartel
On 27 September 2017, the Commission announced that it fined Swedish heavy truck manufacturer Scania €880 million because it had participated in the 14-year long trucks cartel (between 1997 and 2011). The cartelists fixed the price of medium and heavy trucks (over 6...
Dezső & Partners’ lawyers attend the 1st industry-specific competition law conference
Wolters Kluwer and the Hungarian Competition Law Association joined forces to organise the first industry-specific conference on competition law on 20 September 2017, where prominent representatives of certain industrial sectors and noted practitioners of competition...
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