…types of data merchants would make available to Amazon, including (average) prices, quantities sold, specific conversion rates, rebate campaigns or quantities stocked. The RFI also seeks information on the respective…
…Edeka’s wedding rebates case in Germany, the Kaufland cases in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, and the Tesco investigation in the UK which all involve the enforcement of such national…
…general principle. The CJEU’s ruling conveys the message that Intel’s effects-based principles are clearly not limited to rebate cases, but are applicable by analogy in all cases involving alleged pricing…
Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) has now published its full judgment in EDEKA – wedding rebates (case KVR 3/17) on allegedly anti-competitive requests for preferential rebates and conditions…
…could not beat Qualcomm’s prices, net of rebate payments and recoupment of previous rebates. This could amount to a real-life price-cost test, assuming that: Intel and other high-tech giants supplying…
…them (commonly referred to as Anzapfverbot / the “tapping prohibition”). In its 2014 200 page landmark decision against EDEKA’s so-called “wedding rebates” the Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt – BKartA) exercised…
…The new drug contained the same active ingredient, memantine. Actavis began an aggressive marketing campaign to switch patients on to Namenda XR, and made use of rebates to offer it…
…to assess all of the circumstances of a rebate scheme when determining its legality under Article 102 TFEU. The pursuit of such rebate cases is therefore more difficult now. ________________________________________…
…of high-profile Commission investigations of alleged abuses of dominant positions, particularly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors. The Commission’s decision in the Intel case related to the legality of rebate…
…some other suggestions. For example, the government could promote market entry by companies with different economic incentives, for example consumer-owned co-operatives that redistribute profits via rebates. It could provide subsidies…
