Translation of "Gesetzes gegen wettbewerbsbeschränkungen" in English

The revised Act against Competition Restrictions came into force in 2013.

In addition, there is to be an amendment to the Act against Restraints of Competition.

However the German Federal Government plans an amending of the law against restraints of trade (GWB).

The new rules of the Act against Restraints of Competition also set out the main exceptions from procurement law.

In addition, the government has proposed revising the Act against Competition Restrictions and has adopted a revision of the Telecommunications Act.

In October 1997 the Federal Government submitted draft legislation amending for the sixth time the Act Prohibiting Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschrdnkungen - GWB).

The Bundeskartellamt based its view on Paragraph 26(2) of the Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen (Law against Restraints on Competition, hereinafter 'the GWB'), which prohibits undertakings in a dominant position from unfairly impeding access by an undertaking to business activities normally accessible to undertakings similar to it.

The working group entrusted with drafting the law amending the law on restrictive practices, which was setup by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs with a view to amending the Act Prohibiting Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschrankungen - GWB) and on which representatives of the Federal Cartel Office sit, started deliberating.

APPLICATION OF THE COMPETITION RULES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION in Article 12 of the Act of 5 August 1991. The Royal Decree, which is intended to improve the interaction between the authorities responsible for implementing the Competition Act, lays down that, in merger proceedings, firms may appeal against a decision of the Competition Council to launch the second stage of an investigation only when an appeal is brought against the Council's final decision on whether the merger is lawful or not.

On 31 May 1983 the Federal cartel office authorized under Section 4 of the German Restraints of Competition Act for an initial period of three years a welded steel mesh structural crisis cartel consisting of almost all German producers.

In September 2003 the Finnish Trade and Industry Ministry circulated for discussion a proposal for agovernment bill to amend the Kilpailunrajoituslaki (Restrictive Trade Practices Act) (480/1992). Theproposed changes to national competition legislation are, for the most part, the result of the reform of theapplication of EU competition rules.

According to that paragraph, rates must not: (1) contain surcharges which prevail solely as a result of the provider’s dominant position according to Paragraph 19 of the Law against Restraints of Competition in the relevant telecommunications market; (2) contain reductions which restrict the competitive potential of other undertakings on a telecommunications market or (3) confer advantages on certain operators compared with other operators using equivalent or similar telecommunications services on the telecommunications market in question, unless there is evidence of an objectively justifiable reason therefor.

According to the minor market clause (“Bagatellmarktklausel”) in the German Act Against Restraints of Competition, a merger cannot be prohibited if the concerned domestic market had overall revenues of less than EUR 15m within in the last calendar year.

By adopting the 9th amendment of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB), the Federal Government improved the regulatory framework governing abuse of market power and mergers.

According to the Law against Restriction of Competition (§ 97 GWB) ecological aspects can be taken into account within the public procurement procedure if there is a factual link to the order-object.

On 9 July 2017, the 9th amendment of the Act against Restraints of Competition entered into force.

The German mediation committee, comprising the Bundestag [German Parliament] and the Bundesrat [Federal Council], agreed on a compromise of the 8th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) on 5 June 2013.

For that reason, new provisions to combat abusive pricing were introduced in Section 29 of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) and came into effect at the end of 2007.

On 9 June 2017, the 9th Amendment Bill to the German Act Against Restraints of Competition ("ARC") entered into force..

This applies in particular with regard to the laws on public procurement, unfair competition and restriction of competition. Ombudsman

Since the 1999 introduced the sixth amendment to the Act against Restraints of Competition learned the German Antitrust significant changes, structural rearrangements, as the merger proceedings, besides adjustments to European standards and new rule contents, as the procedure. In the area of mergers and collaborations takes Horak Attorneys both the national and the European legal merger.

The ninth amendment to the Act against Restraints on Competition (ARC), which was adopted by the Federal Cabinet on 28 September 2016, is an example of legislation that responds to the advance in digitisation.

In the 8th revision of the Act Against Restrains of Competition, which entered into force in June 2013, the prohibition against so-called price-cost scissors, which was originally slated to go out of effect at the end of 2012, was extended.

Binding on the press, publishers and audiovisual mass media are the general provisions of the Law Against Limitations on Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen - GWU), as the central standard of German Law on Cartels and Competition.