…of conditional rebates and, where appropriate, by enforcing competition rules. Hospital purchasers are invited to report to ACM if they are faced with discount structures that impede the entry of…
…through tenders. In principle, the NHS’s purchasing decisions are based on cost-effective principles assessing the pharmaceutical companies’ pricing and tender offers against the market dynamics. The under review rebate scheme…
…as Efficient Competitor Test in Fidelity Rebate Cases from the Recent US Case Law? It is accepted that the treatment of fidelity rebates is one of the most controversial topics…
…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…
