Márton Horányi co-heads the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group of Baker McKenzie Budapest. He previously headed a Big Four accounting firm’s antitrust and competition practice in Budapest and led the local competition practice of a boutique law firm. Between 2007 and 2015, he practiced in the competition team of Baker McKenzie, Budapest and was seconded to the Firm’s Düsseldorf office. He also gained experience in competition law as a blue book trainee at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels. Márton is a lecturer at the post-graduate competition law program of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He regularly speaks at conferences and client events, and publishes in reputable competition law journals.
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On 26 July the Hungarian Competition Authority published its first ever cartel settlement decision which granted a 10% reduction from the fine to a settling party. The decision found that already the mere fact of negotiating with competitors a draft consortium agreement containing restrictive (...)
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1. Overview In Hungary, since 1 November 2015 a fine imposed by any Competition Authority for anticompetitive agreements results in automatic exclusion from public procurement tenders. The recent introduction of automatic debarment was a major change compared to the previous rules, which (...)
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The new Hungarian Public Procurement Act (PPA) applicable from 1 November 2015 brings fundamental changes by introducing automatic mandatory debarment from public procurement tenders as a consequence of any violation of Art. 101 TFEU or its national equivalents. This is a major change compared (...)
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1. Introduction The year 2013 was an important milestone in the motor vehicle sector, with the new Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation ("MVBER") and the new MVBER Guidelines replacing the previous legislative package from 1 June 2013. The main feature of the new legal framework is (...)
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The Metropolitan Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the Hungarian Competition Authority concerning an exclusive supply – exclusive purchasing arrangement and found that the addressees of the decision have no standing to challenge immunity granted to another party. I. The background of the (...)
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The Hungarian Competition Council adopted a commitment decision terminating an investigation relating to the suspected abuse of dominant position by one of the leading banks in Hungary offering personal banking services, including housing loans (mortgages). The investigation was triggered by (...)
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An amendment of the Hungarian Competition Act introduces financial rewards for providing information about cartels. The new reward system is expected to boost the capacity of the Hungarian Competition Office to uncover hard core infringements. I. The structure of the reward system Pursuant to (...)
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) was found to have violated the principle of equal treatment and procedural fairness in its construction cartel investigation when it disregarded that Crest Nicholson, a former parent company of a construction firm accused of bid rigging, was unable to accept in (...)
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The Hungarian Constitutional Court declares new rules on director disqualification unconstitutional as the procedure leading to the imposition of the sanction violates the right to a fair trial. Due to the constitutional defect of the procedure, director disqualification will not become (...)
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The Hungarian Competition Council found that cooperation agreements concluded between Hungaropharma, a wholesaler of pharmaceutical products, and a number of pharmacies contained clauses which were incompatible with Art. 81 EC and Section 11 of the Hungarian Competition Act. The Competition (...)
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The Competition Council found the Hungarian Real Estate Association (“MAISZ”) had infringed the national equivalent of Article 81 EC by issuing fee recommendations for certain real estate services of its member. Although MAISZ offered commitments to remedy the infringement and to bring its (...)
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An amendment of the Hungarian Competition Act passed by the Parliament on 3 June 2008 brings fundamental changes by introducing company director disqualification, facilitating private damages actions, streamlining leniency policy and amending the substantive test applicable in merger control. (...)
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The background of the investigation The Competition Office initiated an investigation against the Budapest Stock Exchange ("BSE") and 11 trading companies, as it suspected an illegal horizontal coordination among the trading members of the BSE concerning (i) the amendment of BSE’s membership (...)
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The Hungarian Competition Council terminates an investigation concerning certain vertical restrictions - including vertical price fixing (RPM) clauses - contained in the soft drink supply agreements of Büki Ásványvíz- és Üdítõital Kereskedelmi Kft. ("Büki"). The background of the (...)
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The Hungarian Competition Council terminates an investigation concerning beer supply agreements by adopting a commitment decision and making the commitments of a beer producer binding, pursuant to which the duration of non-compete obligations is to be reduced to five years. The background of (...)
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According to its press release of 21 December 2007 in its decision concerning an exclusive supply agreement between two undertakings, the Competition Office imposed a fine of HUF 77 million (ca. € 308 000) on Kortex Mérnöki Iroda Kft., a Hungarian engineering company, while it granted immunity (...)
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The Hungarian Competition Office fined Navi-Gate Kft HUF 43 million (ca. EUR 170 000) for entering into illegal vertical agreements with sub-distributors fixing the retail price of Garmin navigation (PNA) devices and the I-Go navigation software for PDA devices. Although the investigation was (...)
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2015 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
