Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined Estra Reti Gas and its parent company Estra about €270,000 for abusing their dominant position in the market for gas distribution.

Italian insurance company Unipol’s €1.1 billion proposed acquisition of its rival Fondiaria-SAI risks stirring Italy’s Antitrust Authority’s concerns that the merger would create a dominant position, lawyers say.

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation of the proposed acquisition of Italian ferry company Tirrenia by joint venture Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione (CIN), a transaction complicated by a state-aid probe and a cartel investigation of some of the buyers.

Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined pharmaceutical group Pfizer €10.6 million for abuse of dominance.

Italy’s Antitrust Authority has opened an investigation of 12 bar associations, including those in Milan and Rome, for alleged anti-competitive practices.

Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined postal company Poste Italiane €39 million for abusing its dominant position, as it begins to take a tougher stance on anti-competitive conduct.

Italy’s Antitrust Authority has reopened an investigation of the merger between flagship airline Alitalia and its rival Air One, three years after the government forbade the authority to review the deal.

For the second time, Telecom Italia has offered remedies to end an abuse of dominance investigation by Italy’s Competition Authority, after the company’s first proposal failed a market test and was rejected.

Constitutional law professor Giovanni Pitruzzella has been appointed president of Italy’s Competition Authority, succeeding Antonio Catricalà, who joins Mario Monti’s new government.

Italy’s Competition Authority has fined insurance companies €13 million for using co-insurance policies as a tool for price coordination and information sharing.

Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined four makers of magnetic resonance equipment €5.5 million for bid rigging.

Global agriculture and pharmaceutical company Bayer has been fined more than €5 million in Italy for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market for a grape vine fungicide.