Introduction In view of the fact that Community law regulates competition, English law is required to provide remedies for violations to persons injured thereby. Indeed, as the European Court of Justice stated in Courage v. Crehan, "the full effectiveness of Article 81 of the Treaty and, in (...)

Against the backdrop of a string of analyses of the abovementioned Act, the Danish competition authority carried out an examination of the competitive effects of Copenhagen Malmö Port’s exclusive right to offer harbour services in Copenhagen Free Port. The Danish competition authority at the same (...)

In November 2004 the Danish Competition Authority received a complaint in relation to the administration of the provisions in Articles 19 and 20 of the Danish Act on Raw Material. The particular provisions relate to vessel approvals and licenses to gravel and sand pumping. Acting on the (...)

The Finnish Competition Authority held on the 17 May 2005 that the Finnish Telephone Number Service (SNOY) had abused its dominant position. The abuse entailed a practice whereby SNOY forced its customer companies offering telephone directory services not to offer their services to end (...)

Danish Competition Authority, 27 april 2005, Rørforeningen Rorforeningen is an association of Danish wholesalers of plumbing and heating products. All the major wholesalers in Denmark are represented through Rorforeningen. The association carries out a range of activities but the one in casu to (...)

Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition (01/03/05) - Hellenic and Kronos On 1 March 2005 the Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition unanimously decided in a rather small scale case that two press distribution agencies, Hellenic and Kronos, had abused their dominant (...)

The Hungarian Competition Council initiated proceedings against T-Mobile in order to find out whether it had violated Article 8 paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Hungarian Competition Act and Article 7 paragraphs (2) (b) of the Hungarian Act on Business Advertising Activity, through advertising the (...)

On 16 December 2004, the Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition, following a complaint by Yeomilo Trading Ltd, issued a decision that the Cyprus Potatoes Trades Association had infringed section 6 of the Protection of Competition Law 207/89 through abusing its dominant position in (...)

Danish competition authority, Wewers Belægningssten, 24 November 2004 On 24 November 2004, the Danish competition authority rendered a decision finding that the joint venture company Wewers Belaegningssten (under joint control of Ikast Betonvarefabrik and Wewers Teglvaerker) and its parent (...)

Gazdasági Versenyhivatal, Buvihír Hírlap Kereskedelmi Rt. (Magyar Lapterjesztõ Rt), Vj-45/2004/46, 9 November 2004 In Hungary, Magyar Lapterjesztõ Rt is the owner of all the wholesalers of daily, weekly, monthly and other papers. Magyar Lapterjesztõ Rt divided Hungary up geographically into ten (...)

The Finnish Competition Authority (“FCA”) concluded that seven asphalt companies and the Finnish Asphalt Association had violated Finnish competition law through engaging in cartel activity. The FCA stated, before proposing to the Finnish Market Court that it impose fines on these companies and (...)

Fin 2004, l’autorité de concurrence finlandaise a condamné, sur le fondement de l’article 4 de la loi relative au droit de la concurrence, l’Ordre des architectes (“SAFA”) pour avoir édicté un règlement professionnel restrictif de concurrence. Selon ce règlement, si un maître d’ouvrage désirait faire (...)

On 29 September 2004, the Danish Competition Council adopted a decision whereby Post Danmark A/S, the Danish national postal operator, was found to have abused its dominant position on the market for the distribution of non-addressed items and local weekly papers. The decision stemmed from a (...)

In the summer of 2002, construction works for a motorway in Hungary were put out to tender by the National Motorway Co. Ltd. The tendering process was made up of two distinct procedures as the first procedure (restricted procedure with invitations) was declared ineffective. The subsequent (...)

Le droit danois de la concurrence permet à un éditeur de déterminer un prix de vente fixe pour ses nouvelles parutions, prix qui doit être respecté par tous les vendeurs (librairies, supermarchés, marchands spécialisés, etc...). Le législateur danois entendait créer par cette loi une exception (...)

A Danish provider of fixed line telephony for business customers, Song Networks A/S, complained to the Danish Competition Authority alleging that TDC and SONOFON had engaged in illegal behaviour by : charging excessive prices for mobile termination, engaging in collusive behaviour in connection (...)

Dans sa décision du 18 mars 2004, le Conseil de la concurrence sanctionne - sévèrement ? - une entente entre entreprises du bâtiment à l’occasion d’un marché public pour l’Université de Kaposvár. En 2001, l’Etat hongrois avait lancé un appel d’offres dans le cadre d’un marché public pour la construction (...)