Region: Denmark
Danish enforcer requests price-fixing fine for car repair platform
Denmark’s antitrust enforcer has urged a local court to fine online car repair platform Autobutler for entering into price-fixing agreements with hundreds of garages.
03 July 2023
Denmark: Authorities build on EU competition law and focus enforcement on cutting-edge sectors
Featured in Europe, Middle East and Africa Antitrust Review 2024
Shared characteristics of the Danish Competition Act and EU competition law give the country similar priorities and a familiar enforcement framework. Yet it is the key differences that allow the Danish government to better curb anticompetitive developments in pivotal sectors, such as its burgeoning digital market.
30 June 2023
Denmark: Competition Council and DCCA utilise tailored legislation to boost merger regime
Featured in Europe, Middle East and Africa Antitrust Review 2024
Danish competition authorities are making smart use of tailored legislation, armed with a Competition Act tailored to rigorously root out mergers that threaten the country’s healthy competitive landscape.
30 June 2023
European courts should respect UK rulings in private damages cases, Smith says
The president of the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has urged European courts to continue to “respect and consider” the country’s judgments in antitrust litigation cases post-Brexit.
12 June 2023
Danish court reinstates outdoor advertising cartel decision
A Danish appellate court has rebuked a lower court for ruling that the national competition enforcer should have provided evidence of actual contact between two outdoor advertising companies after their unlawful written agreement to fix rebates expired.
23 May 2023
Danish court orders enforcer to reassess decade-old abuse decision
A Danish court has overturned an abuse of dominance decision from the country’s antitrust enforcer against a train manufacturer and its distributor after finding the agency’s market definition was flawed.
28 February 2023
Denmark
Featured in GCR 100 2023
The introduction of new foreign investment control legislation in July 2021 has kept Denmark’s compact competition bar on its toes.
12 December 2022
Drinks companies pull plug on three-to-two deal in Denmark
Two major Danish drinks businesses have abandoned a proposed tie-up after the country’s antitrust enforcer raised horizontal competition concerns during an in-depth review into the deal.
27 October 2022
Danish enforcer fines homeware designer for vertical restrictions
Denmark’s competition authority has fined the Rosendahl Design Group €1 million after the company admitted to resale price maintenance and passive sales restrictions.
21 September 2022
Dutch appeals court rejects interim relief request against news publisher
A Dutch appellate court has affirmed a lower court’s refusal to order DPG Media to continue supplying its news content to a digital platform, ruling there was insufficient evidence that the publisher abused its dominant position in the wholesale daily newspaper market.
10 August 2022