On 14 December 2022, the German Federal Cartel Office cleared the establishment of a purchasing joint venture by the well-known breweries Warsteiner and Karlsberg. It considered the project to be unproblematic from a merger control and antitrust perspective. This decision is also relevant for
14. Dezember 2022 – Die Schweizer Wettbewerbskommission hat heute die revidierte Vertikalbekanntmachung sowie deren dazugehörige Erläuterungen publiziert. Die neuen Regeln werden auf den 1. Januar 2023 in Kraft treten. Unternehmen haben dabei ein Jahr Zeit, ihren Vertrieb an die neuen
On 5 December 2022, the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (Secretariat of the COMCO) opened a preliminary investigation against 34 banking institutions in six German-speaking regions of Switzerland. The reason for this is a possible agreement in violation of competition law pursuant to Article 5 of the Swiss Cartel Act (CartA) regarding salary information of bank employees. According to the press release
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With its decision of 16 November 2022, the Federal Council has put Article 8a of the Swiss Unfair Competition Act (UCA) into force as of 1 December 2022. The article was adopted by the Swiss Parliament in summer 2022. With this provision, so-called parity clauses in general terms and conditions (GTCs) between online booking platforms and hotels are prohibited
The Competition Commission (COMCO) opened an investigation against the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and conducted a dawn raid at its headquarters in Basel on 13 September 2022. According to its press release, Novartis is suspected of having abusively asserted a patent in court and thus abusing
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