The Maltese Competition Authority fines the State undertaking entrusted with the exclusive right for fuel provision for discriminatory pricing (Cassar Fuels / Enemalta)

By an application to the Commission for Fair Trading, the Director of the Office for Fair Trading premised that: (i) on 12th September 2005, the Office received a complaint from Cassar Fuels Limited, an agent and distributor of fuels to local industries including hotels, factories and hospitals, against Enemalta Corporation, a public corporation established under the laws of Malta and currently enjoying statutory monopoly in the market for the provision of said raw materials in Malta; (ii) complainant alleged that Enemalta Corporation was abusing of its dominant position in the said market by applying discriminatory pricing policies in equivalent transactions with its agents