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This is the competition law blog of CERHA HEMPEL Dezső and Partners. We regularly publish news, articles and analysis about competition law, written by the members of our law firm. On occasion we give place for other fields of law as well.
Conference on the Antitrust Law of the Visegrad Four
At the initiative of the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA), representatives of the competition law communities of the V4+ countries met once again in Budapest yesterday, this time in a conference held under the auspices of Hungary’s V4 Presidency. According to our...
CHSH wins Real Estate Team and Antitrust Team of the Year Award in Wolters Kluwer’s Second Annual Lawyers’ Award Competition
As part of its Lawyers’ Award competition, Wolters Kluwer announced winners in nine categories, including dispute resolution, intellectual property, energy law, antitrust law and real estate law. CHSH Dezső & Partners is the only law firm to have won an award in...
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...
The HCA Strikes Companies in Dawn Raids
Dawn raids are special tool in competition law: as part of their mandate to combat cartels that are considered particularly harmful for the public, competition authority officials can enter and search the premises of any company, make copies of documents, phones and entire IT systems and can even access the private correspondence of executive officers.
CHSH Dezső successfully represented clients before the Hungarian Competition Authority
CHSH Dezső & Partners advised Dömper Kft. and Subterra a.s. in an investigation launched by the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) in a cartel case concerning an alleged infringement of the prohibition of restrictive agreements regarding the construction of the M4 motorway.
Dawn raids and investigations by the Competition Authority: it is worth being vigilant now more than ever before
From January 2017, the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) has been allowed to carry out unannounced on-site reviews, i.e. dawn raids in the course of merger investigations. Recent cases have shown it is even more important for companies and executives to be aware...
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