Today the Lithuanian Government adopted a resolution approving the description of the procedure for setting fines for infringements of the Law on Competition. A more detailed regulation of the methodology for setting fines, which will apply from 1 May 2023, will result in fewer preconditions for disputes in courts concerning the amount of fines...

The Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba has cleared the acquisition of 33.4 per cent of the shares of the company 9 sparnai, as well as acquisition of its joint control together with E energy invest, by the Estonian firm Windly Holding OÜ.

On October 6, heads of the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian competition authorities met in Vilnius to discuss current competition law issues, including the review of business transactions covering all three Baltic states, as well as possible joint activities in the context of rising energy and other commodities prices caused by Russia‘s war in...

The competition law journal and news service Global Competition Review, which conducts an annual ranking of the world‘s competition authorities, gave the Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba three stars of five for eight years in a row. Competition authorities from Belgium, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland and some other countries...

On 7 October 2022 the Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba is organising an international conference to mark its 30 th anniversary.

On 6–9 September experts from the Armenian Competition Protection Commission participated in a study visit to the Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba, as well as to other institutions, and got acquainted with their activities and practice of international cooperation.

The Finnish forestry company UPM-Kymmene Beteiligungs will be able to acquire 100 per cent of the shares of the German firm AMC AG Advanced Methods of Coating and, indirectly, control of Inter Sign, SERPRI, Print Inform Japan and ITRACO International Trading + Consulting . This transaction has been cleared by the Lithuanian competition...

T oday t he Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba r efused t o clear the acquisition of 1 00 per cent of the s hares and sole control of the Lithuanian company B altic M ill by the L atvian firm D obeles d zirnavnieks . The a uthority f ound t hat t he merger w ould c reate o r s trengthen the...

Today the Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba has refused to clear the merger whereby the Estonian company Piletilevi Group acquired 100 per cent of the shares and sole control of the Lithuanian ticket distributor Tiketa. The authority found that the merger created or strengthened a dominant position or substantially...

The Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba assigned individual sanctions to the companies Būsto aplinka and City Service Engineering which concluded a bid-rigging cartel.  

The Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba supervising how municipalities comply with the Law on Competition when concluding in-house contracts will analyse whether they conform to the judicial interpretations of the Constitutional Court concerning the assessment of the impact of in-house contracts on fair competition.