Translation of "Wettbewerbshüter" in English

The Commission's guardians of competition are therefore also acting in the interests of consumers.

Are the Brussels competition watchdogs making the right decision?

And, indeed, such firms are beginning to face scrutiny from antitrust officials, especially in Europe.

The European competition guardians accuse the abuse of its market power and price-fixing arrangements in the current sector to the enterprises.

However, we citizens can see certain agreements taking place, resulting in price increases in all the countries simultaneously, yet the competition authorities fail to find any transgression.

Indeed, high-tech companies like Microsoft and Intel are particularly unsuitable targets for antitrust policing, because regulators cannot possibly move at the speed of ‘Internet time.’

And just as competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have been losing sleep over the Windows monopoly, Microsoft’s desktop model is threatened today by handheld devices and Google’s dispersed online computing model.

On overcapacity problems competition authorities should act flexibly and not object in the short-term to individual arrangements between carriers on the condition that access to the markets in question remains free.

National competition authorities decisions concerning the tax regime for cost and investment linked to the introduction of the euro. 6.

What will the competition authorities, which allow producer organisations only 33% of the national milk volume, say to this?

The press praises Europe's competition authorities - but also warns that they must do more to counter the dominant position of US technology companies.

In one of the most complex merger control proceedings to come before the Austrian cartel authorities in recent years, it was possible to address and overcome the concerns raised by the competition watchdog, following an in-depth review and by calling upon the advice of experts.

The Chinese competition authorities have not approved the deal by the end of the last deadline on 25 July.

After the market launch in 1972, the German competition authorities were of the opinion that the term »Clinique« has a clinical or medical connotation (»clinic«) that was likely to mislead consumers.

In its report, the competitive situation of the market for gasoline and diesel, the competition watchdog told, that a further process of concentration must be prevented by stricter controls.

Europe should have used its regulatory power and managed the conflict between systemic and competitive risk that all this emergency public funding was generating, but the competition watchdog’s contradictory request that companies receiving funding should reduce credit to their clients made this well nigh impossible.

When Adtranz was bought by Bombardier, competition authorities demanded that this line should be sold off, which now makes it a product of swiss Stadler, although it’s still produced in Germany - Berlin, to be precise, a factory Stadler bought along with the train.

However, even if one were to agree that the battle against dumping lies within the purview of the federal government, for the most part, attacked practices of corporations are not even considered dumping by the competition authorities.

As commendable as EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager's tougher controls are: nowadays turbo discounts for global companies are so widespread that the phenomenon is far too big for a few Brussels competition watchdogs to tackle.