The German Competition Authority prohibits "best price" clauses implemented by an online hotel booking company (Booking.com)

Narrow 'best price' clauses of Booking also anticompetitive* Today the Bundeskartellamt prohibited Booking (Booking.com Deutschland GmbH, Berlin, and Booking.com B.V., Amsterdam) from continuing to apply its 'best price' clauses and ordered the hotel booking portal to completely delete the clauses from its contracts and general terms and conditions by 31 January 2016 as far as they affect hotels in Germany. Under the clauses the hotels were

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German Competition Authority, The German Competition Authority prohibits "best price" clauses implemented by an online hotel booking company (Booking.com), 23 December 2015, e-Competitions December 2015, Art. N° 77367

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