CASE COMMENTS : ANTICOMPETITIVE AGREEMENT – CODE OF CONDUCT – DETERMINATION OF GEOLOGISTS’ FEES – PRELIMINARY RULING

Determination of fees: The Court of Justice rules that a code of conduct enacted by a professional association, that includes the “dignity of the profession” among the criteria which define the remuneration of fees, may have an anticompetitive effect that the national judge must appreciate in concreto (Italian geologists)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Italian Consiglio di Stato referred to the Court for a preliminary ruling an unusually lengthy set of questions in a case in which the compatibility of a professional regulation which included the 'dignity of the profession' among the criteria for fixing fees was at issue. The Consiglio di Stato questions the compatibility of such a rule with Article 101 TFEU, in so far as the

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