Tarik Hennen

The Parties The case opposed the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SABAM) and Productions & Marketing (P&M), a company whose business activities consist of the organization of concerts and musical events. Background In 2000 and 2001, P&M organized Charles (...)

In a public procurement concerning the construction of roads in the municipality of Budapest, eight construction companies have been found guilty of bid-rigging. In a nutshell, they decided among themselves which company would get the contract by coordinating their tenders in advance during (...)

On 6 September 2005, the Hungarian Competition Authority found Magyar Telekom guilty of abuse of dominance by setting supra competitive wholesale prices for network access to “toll-free” and “reduced-toll” telephone numbers - the so called “coloured numbers”. In Hungary, “toll-free” and (...)

On 31 August 2005 the Danish Competition Council decided that Skandinavisk Motor Co. (hereinafter “SMC”), formerly Pradan Auto Import, had abused its dominant position under section 11 of The Danish Competition Act (the Danish provision similar to article 82 EC) on the original Skoda spare parts’ (...)

On 29 August 2005, the Belgian Competition Authority cleared the acquisition of a group of companies - whose identities were kept confidential - by Distripar, a company with interests in the perfume and cosmetics sectors. The parties Distripar, the buyer, is a Belgian holding company which (...)

On 22 June 2005, the Danish Competition Council found DBC Medier, a company selling books, music, films and computer programmes, guilty of an abuse of dominance contrary to Article 82 EC. With exclusive rights on a large number of movies and computer programmes, DBC was deemed to hold a (...)

Dansk Reklame Film (hereinafter referred to as ““DRF”) is an intermediary between Cinemas and advertising agencies whose activities consist in entering into (i) agreements with advisers/agencies concerning the display of screen advertising in cinemas (ii) agreements with cinemas on hire of the (...)

Rába is a Hungarian vehicle manufacturers specialized in the spare parts business. The firm mostly exports products for the supply of companies such as Daimler Chrysler, Caterpillar, Suzuki etc. Rába is one of the most important independent undercarriage constructors in the world. Integris - (...)

In Hungary, the activity of notaries is the most strictly regulated branch of liberal professions. On 27 may 2005, the Gazdasági Versenyhivatal (“GVH” - the Hungarian Competition Authority) submitted a detailed recommendation during the drafting of the new regulation pertaining to notarial (...)

The facts APT-B is a Belgian company which business consisted in repairing computer hard drives. It entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with LUPAC. On 11 December 1987, APT-B unilaterally terminated the said contract on the ground of alleged contractual failures and claimed for (...)

Background The proceedings in that case were initiated by GPFI, Belga Film, Cinélibre, la Médiathèque de la Communauté française de Belgique and Super Video Production respectively copyright holder and licensees of the movie “Un homme à ma taille”. The complainants sued DGD and VRP, two companies (...)