Sarunas Keserauskas

On 2 June 2008 the Vilnius District Administrative Court (the “VDAC” or the “Court”) rejected an appeal brought by UAB Vilniaus Energija (the “VE”) against the Competition Council’s infringement decision fining the appellant for unfair pricing practices. In the original infringement decision (...)

On 28 February 2008 the Lithuanian Competition Council fined seven dairy companies for their involvement in the exchange of confidential information said to have restricted competition on the raw milk procurement market and on a number of markets for individual dairy products. The total amount (...)

On 14 February 2008 the Vilnius District Administrative Court (the “VDAC” or the “Court”) rejected an appeal brought by the Lithuanian Chamber of Auditors (the “LCA”) against the Competition Council’s infringement decision condemning the appellant’s attempts to set minimum fees for its (...)

On 7 November 2007, the Vilnius District Administrative Court (VDAC) ordered the Competition Council to reinvestigate the earlier closed case of the suspected Article 9 (equivalent to Article 82 EC) infringement by AB Lietuvos dujos (LD), a natural gas supplier. The Court’s judgment (...)

On 5 November 2007, the Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court (LSAC) upheld the judgment of the Vilnius District Administrative Court (VDAC) ordering the Competition Council to investigate whether by restricting the access to the airport facilities the State Enterprise Tarptautinis Vilniaus (...)

On 11 October 2007 the Vilnius District Administrative Court (the “VDAC” or the “Court”) issued a judgment reducing the fines imposed on the members of the bid-rigging cartel in the School Renovations case . The Competition Council’s decisionin this case was challenged by all three parties (...)

On 27 September 2007 the Lithuanian Competition Council reaffirmed its earlier findings in Lietuvos Paštas case by issuing a new decision condemning pricing practices of the state-controlled postal company AB Lietuvos paštas (LP) and imposing a fine of LTL 80,000 (approx. EUR 23,170). The new (...)

On 13 September 2007 the Lithuanian Competition Council adopted an infringement decision finding UAB Vilniaus Energija (VE) in breach of Article 9 of the Law on Competition (equivalent to Article 82 of the EC Treaty) for imposing unfair prices in a number of local markets for the lease of (...)

On 28 June 2007 the Vilnius District Administrative Court (the “VDAC” or the “Court”) overturned the 22 December 2005 Competition Council’s infringement decision n° 2S-16 in Mažeikiu nafta II (“MN”)(, the first Article 82 case in Lithuania, notable for its record fine of LTL 32 million (...)

On 21 June 2007 the Lithuanian Competition Council concluded its long-running investigation in the Chamber of Auditors case with the infringement decision establishing a fine of LTL 30,000 (approx. EUR 8,689) on the Lithuanian Chamber of Auditors (LCA) for the latter’s recommendations of (...)

On 7 June 2007 the Vilnius District Administrative Court (the “VDAC” or the “Court”) substantially upheld the 26 October 2006 Competition Council’s infringement decision in Paper Wholesalers. As reviewed previously in this newsletter, by that decision the Competition Council found five (...)

On 7 June 2007, in its first explicit application of the essential facilities doctrine, the Lithuanian Competition Council imposed a fine of LTL 50,000 (approx. EUR 14,481) on the State Enterprise Tarptautinis Vilniaus oro uostas (TVOU) for abuse of a dominant position by way of restricting (...)

On 15 March 2007 the Lithuanian Competition Council adopted an infringement decision finding three companies in breach of Article 5 of the Law on Competition (equivalent to Article 81 of the EC Treaty) for their bid rigging practices in relation to 15 public procurement tenders for renovation (...)

Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos konkurencijos taryba), 1February 1, 2007, Decision n° 2S-3, concerning the compliance of the actions of undertakings participating in the boiler-house replacement tender with the requirements of Article 5 of the Law on (...)

Just when everybody thought that Mažeikiu nafta II - the first Article 82 EC case in Lithuania - could be put to rest for at least another two years, it was brought back to life as, on 31 January 2007, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling refusing to accept a reference from the Vilnius (...)

On 22 December 2006 the Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court (LSAC) annulled the judgment of the court of first instance (Vilnius District Administrative Court or VDAC) related to the Article 9 (abuse of dominance) infringement decision of the Competition Council in the Lietuvos Paštas case (...)

On 26 October 2006 the Lithuanian Competition Council (CC) adopted a decision finding five wholesalers of paper in breach of Article 81 EC and its national equivalent (Article 5 of the Law on Competition) for their engagement in exchanging data on their market shares. The combined fines (...)

On 5 October 2006 the Lithuanian Competition Council (CC) issued a decision establishing a fine of LTL 3,011,000 (approx. EUR 872,046) on TEO LT, AB (TEO) for the abuse of a dominant position prohibited by Article 9 of the Law on Competition. This was the third time that TEO, a former telecom (...)

On 26 May 2006 the Lithuanian Court of Appeal (“LCA”) issued a ruling ordering a reduction of the amount of damages to be paid by AB Stumbras (“Stumbras”) to one of its customers, UAB Siauliu tara (“Siauliu tara”). The ruling is the latest development of the case, the origins of which date (...)

AB Mažeiki Nafta ([“MN” ), the Lithuanian oil refinery, which had been previously fined by the Lithuanian NCA for the abuse of a dominant position, could take a breath after the Latvian Competition Council, on 24 May 2006, closed its investigation finding no infringement on MN’s part. The two (...)

In January 2006 the Lithuanian Competition Council (“CC”) continued its onslaught on the alleged discriminatory practices of the former or still existing state monopolies (as reported earlier, in 2005 the national oil refinery received a record fine of approx. EUR 9.27 for violation of Article (...)

The Lithuanian Competition Council (CC) finished the year of 2005 on a high note by establishing a record fine of LTL 32 million (approx. EUR 9.27 million) on AB Mažeikiu nafta (MN), the national oil refinery, for the discriminatory pricing practices said to infringe Article 82 EC and its (...)