The Greek Parliament enacts a new law empowering authorities to control monopolies and oligopolies to protect free competition

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Greek Parliament, Review of Provisions on the control of monopolies and oligopolies and the protection of free competition, Law 3784/2009, 7 August 2009 (Greek)

Greek Competition Authority, PPC / Halyvourgiki , Decision n°452/V/2009, 29 May 2009 (Greek)

Greek Competition Authority, BOOKSTORES FLORAS KOSMOS / APOLLON, Decision n° 452/V/2009, 22 July 2009 (Greek)

Greek Competition Authority, Union of Car Body Repairers / Audatex, Decision n°460/V/2009, 3 August 2009(Greek)

A. The new Law 3784/2009 amends the Greek Competition Act The Greek Parliament enacted in September Law 3784/2009 "Review of Provisions of Law 703/77 on the control of monopolies and oligopolies and the protection of free competition" (the "new Law") published in Government Gazette A/7-8-2009. The new Law is in effect as of September 7, 2009 and constitutes an amendment to Law 703/77 "On the protection of Free Competition" (the "Hellenic Competition Act"). The purpose of this amendment is to accelerate the examination process by the Hellenic Competition Commission ("HCC"), to harmonize Greek with Community competition law and to limit the workload of the HCC in order to allow it to concentrate on more serious violations of competition law, namely horizontal agreements and abuse of

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Anastasia Dritsa, The Greek Parliament enacts a new law empowering authorities to control monopolies and oligopolies to protect free competition, 7 August 2020, e-Competitions Criminal sanctions, Art. N° 99891

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