On April 27, 2012, the Spanish Supreme Court issued judgment number 6552/2009 on the appeals submitted by the Asociación Nacional de Perfumería y Cosmética (“STANPA”) and the Spanish Competition Authority (“CNC”) against the judgment of the Audiencia Nacional (Spanish Court of Appeal, “AN”) of (...)

On December 3, 2009, the Spanish Competition Authority(Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, “CNC”) closed a case of possible infringement of Article 1 of the Law 15/2007, for the Defense of Competition (“LDC”), involving the company El Corral de las Flamencas, S.L. (“El Corral”) fixing resale prices (...)

On January 26, 2010, the Spanish Authority (Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, “CNC”) jointly and severally fined Tradia Telecom, S.A. (“Tradia”) and its parent companies Abertis Telecom, S.A. and Abertis Infraestructuras, S.A. (collectively referred to as “Abertis”) €143,000 for acquiring (...)

On 18 February 2009, the Spanish Competition Commission (Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, “CNC”) fined Damm Distribuciones (“Damm”) €525,000 for fixing minimum resale prices to its beer distributors . Background Damm is one of the top three beer producers in Spain, distributing its products (...)

Background On June 29, 2000, Prosegur, a company active in the security and cash-in-transit services markets, notified the former Service for Defense of Competition (Servicio de Defensa de la Competencia, “SDC”) of the acquisition of Blindados del Norte (“Blindados”), a company operating in the (...)