Per Rummel

This article analyses the legal modifications by the ninth amendment to the German Competition Act. Partly, the changes were necessary to transpose European rules on administrative and civil liability. Moreover, the German legislator attunes the competition law to the challenges of the digital (...)

On 28 September 2016, the German government published a bill to modernise German competition law. The proposed amendment is expected to enter into force in spring 2017. An adaptation of the competition rules is necessary to close the loopholes regarding the administrative liability of companies (...)

The Bundeskartellamt has decided that the joint marketing of round timber by the Land Baden-Württemberg contravenes the prohibition of unlawful agreements. The German competition authority has been monitoring the joint marketing of timber from state, municipal and private forests in (...)

With ministerial authorisation, German competition law provides for the possibility of taking into account public interest aspects in merger control. In 2015 the two food retailing companies Edeka and Tengelmann made use of this instrument. A formal procedure The ministerial authorization is (...)

[ CA Düsseldorf, 9 Jan. 2015 - VI - Kart 1/14 (V) - HRS >doc27580] In the edition of Concurrences n° 3-2014 we had presented the prohibition decision of the Bundeskartellamt concerning the best price guarantee clauses practised by the hotel reservation portal HRS. These clauses required HRS (...)

Bundeskartellamt, December 20, 2013, HRS, dec. B9-66/10 Cartel law is a "living right" that is enriched both by the ingenuity of companies and the diversity of market configurations. This is all the more significant since the Bundeskartellamt often focuses on practices whose existence appears (...)