Tuesday, 07 February 2012
Hungary’s Competition Authority has introduced guidelines outlining how it will calculate fines in cartel and abuse of dominance cases.
Monday, 09 January 2012
Hungary’s development ministry has today announced it accepts a European Commission state aid ruling declaring that millions of euros given between 2007 and 2010 to loss-making state airline Malév were illegal.
Friday, 06 January 2012
Hungary has amended its merger control guidelines, introducing a shorter merger review process and a formal pre-notification system.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Hungary’s Competition Authority (GVH) has opened a cartel investigation of seven banks for allegedly colluding to fix the price of residential mortgages.
Monday, 03 October 2011
Allen & Overy LLP has hired Tibor Szántó from Hungary’s Competition Council to lead a new competition practice at the firm’s office in Budapest.
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Hungary’s Competition Authority has fined seven Budapest taxi companies 34 million forints (€127,000) for forming a cartel to eliminate a competitor.
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Miklos Juhasz took the helm at Hungary’s Competition Authority on 1 November. He talks to Emily Gray about his plans for making the agency “among the best competition authorities in Europe” by 2016
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Zoltan Nagy stepped down as head of Hungary’s Competition Authority on 1 November after 12 years in the post. Emily Gray asks him how he would like to be remembered and what advice he would give his successor
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Hungary’s Competition Authority played an active role in steering the country from a Communist state to an open-market economy. As it undergoes a change in leadership for the first time in 12 years, Emily Gray looks at the authority’s prospects for further success.
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Antitrust practices in Hungary are all cast in the same mould: they are either part of an international network or they enjoy the benefits of ‘best friends’ status. Emily Gray looks at the leading lights of the Hungarian competition bar
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Hungary’s President, Pál Schmitt, has appointed two new members to the decision-making body of the country’s Competition Authority.
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GCR talks to Andrea Belenyi, secretary general at Hungary's Competition Authority
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Hungary’s Competition Authority has fined four construction companies more than €25 million for bid rigging in the country’s railway maintenance sector.
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Austrian firm Wolf Theiss has promoted two competition specialists to partner – one in Bratislava and one in Budapest.
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White & Case LLP has hired Tihamér Tóth from Hungary’s Competition Authority as of counsel in its Budapest office.
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