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...
The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (Court) rejected the appeal of the company AV investicija and left unchanged the ruling of the court of first instance declaring that the Lithuanian competition authority was right in not applying the protection of legal professional privilege (LPP) to correspondence between two companies and their...
The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (Court) rejected the appeal by the German company Sypra which participated in the radioactive scrap metal auction conducted by Ignalina nuclear power plant and concluded a cartel. The Court did not reduce the fine imposed on the company by the Lithuanian competition authority.
The Lithuanian competition authority Konkurencijos taryba has terminated the investigation into the actions of Diginet LTU , the owner of classified real estate ads websites, without finding that the company abused its dominant market position by way of charging unfair prices to customers.