Current contents of the Federal Cartel Office

The Bundeskartellamt has today sent Amazon.com Inc., Seattle, USA, and Amazon EU S.à.r.l., Luxembourg, (together “Amazon”), its preliminary legal assessment of the company’s influence on the prices charged by sellers on the Amazon Marketplace and of the Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy.

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he Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalling 10.5 million euros on seven road repair companies for bid rigging and customer allocation.

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The 24th Annual Conference of the International Competition Network (ICN) was hosted by the UK CMA in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 7 to 9 May 2025.

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The Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalling almost 6 million euros on Sennheiser electronic SE & Co. KG, on Sonova Consumer Hearing Sales Germany GmbH, and on three employees responsible due to vertical price fixing.

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The Bundeskartellamt has cleared under merger control rules the acquisition of a stake in Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main, by UniCredit S.p.A., Milan, Italy.

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The Bundeskartellamt has today sent Vodafone Group, Vodafone GmbH and Vantage Towers AG its preliminary legal assessment relating to the shortcomings in providing antenna sites to 1&1.

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