Preventing, detecting and prosecuting bid rigging rings often requires extensive outreach efforts to help raise awareness and foster cooperation among procurement officials, contractors and public prosecutors, a panel of top cartel enforcers said today. Ron Knox in Rio de Janeiro.

Germany’s government has proposed changes to its merger control law, including introducing an EU-inspired test, but the country’s Federal Cartel Authority has said the present test will still be relevant.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) yesterday fined 13 chemical wholesalers a total of €8.7 million, marking the end of its investigation of cartel activity in the sector.

Iveco will appeal against a €30 million fine imposed by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) for its alleged participation in a cartel to fix the price of fire-fighting vehicles, despite having cooperated with the authority in the investigation.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has fined participants in the linked concrete pipe and paving stones cartels a total of €3 million.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has issued a rare merger prohibition, blocking the acquisition by banking group Haspa Finanzholding of a 25 per cent minority stake in Kreissparkasse Herzogtum Lauenburg – a savings bank.

A German court has denied Motorola’s request to force Apple to stop selling some of its products on suspicion of patent infringement, saying the sales block would breach antitrust laws.

The European Commission has opened investigations of four regional airports in Germany and Austria, over concerns they are breaching state aid regulation by offering certain airlines competitive advantages.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has sent a statement of objections to HRS-Hotel Reservation Service Robert Ragge, saying some of the company’s policies are a threat to competition.

Schilling Zutt & Anschütz has promoted Christina Malz to counsel in its antitrust practice in Mannheim.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has concluded an inquiry of the milk sector, publishing a report that addresses competition concerns and criticises European regulations for restricting competition.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has fined six manufacturers of hydrants and pipe fittings and four of their employees a total of €15.5 million for participating in a cartel.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has cleared the merger of two regional cable network operators with conditions, after “intense negotiations” with the companies.

Warth & Klein Grant Thornton, the German branch of accountancy group Grant Thornton, has expanded its trustee and competition services practice in Hamburg, hiring Gunnar Oldehaver and Eva Romswinkel.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) is investigating public broadcasters ARD and ZDF over their plans to create a joint video-on-demand portal.