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Valeria Graziussi

Codacons (Rome)

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Valeria Graziussi has gained a first class degree in Law In Universitá degli studi di Napoli Federico II in October 2006, then she moved to London and scored 7 In IELTS academic test, which allowed her to join the LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law in Queen Mary University of London (2008/2009).

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16133 Bulletin

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Antitrust Authority starts investigation against publishing company under article 27 section 12 of the Italian consumer code (International Masters Publishers)

4 May 2011 277

The Italian Competition Authority (hereinafter ICA), in the decision of 18th March 2010 PS 22364, revealed that International Masters Publisher S.r.l (hereinafter, IMP), had breached articles 21, 22, 24, 25 section d, 26 section f, for unfair practice. Particularly, the practice consisted of: (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority starts an investigation against a media producer and distributor for infringement of Art. 102 TFUE and national equivalent (RTI / Sky)

3 November 2010 514

Sky Italia s.r.l. is controlled by News Corporation Ltd active on the media market, whose activity includes production and distribution of movies, tv show, newspaper, books and magazines’publication. (Reti Televisive Italiane) RTI S.p.A belongs to Mediaset Group, which controls the three main (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority accepts commitments submitted by the leading auction company following an investigation into unfair practices (Sotheby’s)

28 July 2010 535

The Italian branch of Sotheby’s, Sotheby’s S.r.l. (hereninafter SHT), sells and buys antiques, arts and collection items during public auctions. The Italian Antitrust Authority (hereinafter ICA), started investigation in March 2010, because was reported that SHT provided incomplete and deceiving (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority starts investigation against main marketing consulters associations under Art. 2 and 14 of Law 287/1990 (ACPI)

13 July 2010 658

ACPI and TP (Associations of Italian Marketing Consulters) are formed by natural persons, who have worked up to five years in the field of marketing consultation and communication industry and have covered directorial roles, enrolled to the Italian Commerce Chamber. In July 2009, the Italian (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority starts investigation against alleged price fixing between the main players in the field of maritime agency service (Servizi di Agenzia Marittima)

14 June 2010 1927

In December 2007 Italian Competition Authority (hereinafter ICA) was reported about a potential behaviour which could have undermined the competition among maritime service agencies. Many companies were suspected to implement agreements even through using the category associations (Associazione (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority starts investigation against the largest companies active in the production of road blocks (Comast - Road blocks market)

2 February 2010 1056

On 19 October 2009 “Guardia di Finanza”, a special body of police officers responsible for border control and for investigating fraud, reported a violation of the Antitrust Law in the supply and building road block market. The parties investigated and involved are Metalmeccanica Fracasso S.p.A., (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority accepts commitments submitted by an association of undertakings in order to end a possible violation of Art. 101 TFEU regarding professional fees (Council of psychologists)

11 January 2010 2261

The "Consiglio Nazionale dell’Ordiene degli Psicologi" ("CNOP") is the organ which represents the Council of psychologists at national level: it approves the professional ethics code, it manages the internal organization, compiles the balance sheets, and ensures the respect of the legislation, (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority starts an investigation against the main IT operator for abuse of dominance on the online collecting advertisement market (Google Italy)

26 August 2009 2512

Google Italy is an Italian company belonging to the US Google Group INC. It is active world-wide and it is the most popular engine search. Among others, Google provides also "Google News" and it gains the majority of its turnover from the collection and intermediation of advertisement on line . (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority starts investigations against a cartel of lawyers’ association for the first time after decreto Bersani (Ordine degli avvocati di Brescia)

6 July 2009 1297

The Italian competition Authority (ICA) starts investigation about a cartel agreed by Consiglio dell’Ordine di Brescia to obstacle the activity of a new established law firm in Milan called A.L.T.(Assistenza Legale per Tutti). In 1997 The ICA was willing to introduce reform to create a (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition Authority investigates the coordination of prices by three gas suppliers in violation of Art. 81 EC (Prezzo del GPL per riscaldamento regione Sardegna)

22 January 2009 1725

Following the notice about the cartel in relation to fixing the price of GPL gas, the Italian Competition Authority (ICA), has decided to investigate the conducts of the three main Italian suppliers of gas. The ICA, was made aware that ButanGas, Eni and Liquigas (the three gas suppliers) were (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competition clears without remedies a merger in the large retail distribution sector (Conad del Tirreno)

23 October 2008 1608

Conad del Tirreno is an Italian retailing cooperative company set in Pistoia (Tuscany), which operates in the food market and its aggregate turnover in 2007 was 1,111 million euros. In the case before, there has been an acquisition of three food market retailers. They were jointly owned by two (...)

Valeria Graziussi The Italian Competion Authority clears a merger in the facility management market while reducing from 5 to 2 years the duration of the non-compete provision (Pirelli)

23 October 2008 1763

Pirelli & C. Real estate Integrated Facility Management (hereinafter PREIFM) is a facility management company, in other words a company which deals with the supply of technology services for industrial, commercial and civil infrastructures for an efficient managment of the buildings. (...)