
COMPETITION COUNCIL STARTS ITS SUPERVISORY FUNCTIONS FOR DIGITAL MARKETS
Following the entry into force of the Law on the Supervision of Online Intermediation Services and Online Search Engines, as of 1 January 2025, the Competition Council will take on new supervisory functions for online platforms.

THE COMPETITION COUNCIL CHANGES ITS SANCTIONING PRACTICE FOR UNREPORTED BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
A merger or acquisition transaction executed without the approval of the Competition Council is a serious breach of competition law, for which the company implementing the concentration is held liable. In order to ensure that the fines more proportionately reflect the financial capabilities of the offender benefiting from the unreported...

THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE AKMENĖ DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY PROGRAM WILL NOT BE CONTINUED
According to the Competition Council, free healthcare services funded by the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (CHIF) are considered non-economic activity and thus are not subject to the requirements of the Law on Competition. Consequently, the institution decided to terminate the investigation into doctor incentive program approved by the Akmenė...

INTERIM MEASURES ON THE ESTONIAN COMPANY OPERATING A CINEMA CHAIN EXTENDED FOR ONE YEAR
The Competition Council has decided to extend the interim measures imposed on the Estonian company MM Grupp , which include an obligation to manage all the assets and business of Forum Cinemas , which was allegedly taken over without the Authority's approval, in a way that does not harm its economic viability, saleability or competitiveness,...

OWNER OF DELFI.LT WILL HAVE TO GET PERMISSION FOR A CONCENTRATION FROM THE COMPETITION COUNCIL OR SELL THE SHARES OF LRYTAS
The Competition Council recognised that the Estonian company Ekspress Grupp , which controls the news portal delfi.lt , violated the Law on Competition by acquiring the company Lrytas , which controls the news portal lrytas.lt , without notifying the institution and obtaining its permission.

Today, the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, the Seimas, approved amendments to the Law on Competition, which aim to create conditions for more effective enforcement of competition and state aid rules in Lithuania. Among the most important changes, is the rules on recovery of unlawful and/or incompatible with the EU internal market state...

The five-day visit of the staff of the Georgian National Competition Agency to Konkurencijos taryba concluded today, during which the guests got acquainted with the latest working practices of their Lithuanian colleagues, as well as visited several other Lithuanian institutions.

Konkurencijos taryba has decided that the Municipality of Palanga (Municipality) infringed the Law on Competition by transferring the management of a swimming pool and the provision of various types of services, including commercial ones, without a competitive procedure, to its own institution Palangos investicijų valdymas .

On 16–20 January employees of the Anti-monopoly Committee of Ukraine took part in a study visit in Lithuania during which they participated in meetings with experts from the competition authority Konkurencijos taryba, Vilnius Regional Administrative Court, as well as from the Communications Regulatory Authority, and learned about the working...

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 found that the Lithuanian Basketball League ( Lietuvos krepšinio lyga – LKL) and 10 basketball clubs concluded an anti-competitive agreement when they decided not to pay basketball players salaries or other financial remuneration for the rest of the season after the termination of the...