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The Competition Council, together with the Polish and Latvian competition authorities and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will implement the European Union (EU) technical assistance project "Competition Market Study: Digital Sector – Poland, Latvia and Lithuania" to help ensure competitiveness in the digital...

In order to contribute to a better understanding of the competition law requirements for businesses in the digital space, the Competition Council has prepared Guidelines on e-commerce, which provide the most relevant information on the prohibition of anti-competitive agreements and recommendations for the e-commerce sector.

Chairwoman of the Competition Council, Jolanta Ivanauskienė, presenting the 2023 Annual Report at an interinstitutional meeting in the Government this week, overviewed the main results achieved by the institution in the past year and answered questions.

The Competition Council, after conducting monitoring of online marketplaces, did not identify any obvious illegal competition restraints or other factors that effectively restrict competition in electronic commerce. However, the Authority has drawn the attention of the sector to certain business practices that may pose a risk of restricting...

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...

Considering the development of e-commerce in recent years, the Lithuanian and Latvian competition authorities are launching parallel business surveys in their countries seeking to find out whether businesses encounter any possible restrictions of competition in online marketplaces and to identify common problems that are relevant for companies...