Bundeskartellamt

News 2004

30.12.2004

Bundeskartellamt clears takeover of Premiere’s Digital Playout Center by SES Astra (satellite TV /pay TV)
21.12.2004

Review of 2004 / Prospects for 2005 Important developments in the protection of competition
24.11.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits joint participation by Rethmann and Tönsmeier in Gesellschaft für Abfallwirtschaft Köthe
04.11.2004

Bundeskartellamt issues warning to Deutsche Post AG
12.10.2004

Bundeskartellamt welcomes opening-up of DSD to more competition
30.09.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits planned concentration of Leggett & Platt and AGRO Federkernproduktions GmbH
28.09.2004

Competition experts discuss the role of consumer interests in the protection of competition
24.09.2004

Bundeskartellamt President Ulf Böge unanimously elected new Chairman of the International Competition Network (ICN)
22.09.2004

KDG withdraws its application at the Bundeskartellamt for takeover of ish, KBW and iesy
25.08.2004

Bundeskartellamt Searches Trademark Association again on Suspicion of Boycott Activities
24.08.2004

Bundeskartellamt intends to prohibit takeover of ish, KBW and iesy by KDG
19.08.2004

Clearance of General Electric / InVision Merger in Close Cooperation with US Competition Authority
09.08.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits Gruner + Jahr purchase of licence for "National Geographic"
06.08.2004

Bundeskartellamt clears takeover of Viva by Viacom
27.07.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits Mainova from acquiring shares in the Aschaffenburg municipal utilities
26.07.2004

No prohibition proceedings against Lufthansa’s cancellation of travel agencies’ commission
15.06.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits Deutsche Bahn from extending its local public transport activities in Saarland
07.06.2004

Bundeskartellamt extends cartel proceedings against industrial insurance companies to further companies
25.05.2004

A New Dimension in Combating Cartels in Europe
11.05.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits administrative district from calling for boycott and exerting illegal pressure (paper disposal)
04.05.2004

Bundeskartellamt fines price cartel in paper wholesale sector Eur 57.6 million
27.04.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits participation of Radio TON-Regional in Lokalradio Services (radio advertising market in the Tübingen / Reutlingen / Zollern-Alb area)
26.04.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits merger between Agrana / Atys (fruit processing)
15.04.2004

Newspaper merger between Lausitzer Rundschau and Wochenkurier Brandenburg prohibited
30.03.2004

Bundeskartellamt prohibits merger between Synthes-Stratec / Mathys Medizinaltechnik
24.03.2004

Construction companies in Berlin-Brandenburg searched
10.03.2004

Cement manufacturers searched
04.02.2004

Bundeskartellamt again prohibits Holtzbrinck / Berliner Verlag merger