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Chapter and Conference Paper
Austria
The digitalisation of markets has led to profound changes in the way goods and services are conceived of, produced, distributed, marketed and bought. The business model of platform markets has taken hold in th...
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Chapter
Austria
The term discrimination is reflected in various Austrian legal provisions and respective case precedents.
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Austria
With regard to EU and Austrian competition law, the term ‘online sales platforms’ might be easily misunderstood. Based on competition law practice (as outlined below), the term ‘online sales platforms’ in gene...
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The Austrian Cartel Act 2005 (hereinafter “Cartel Act”) contains a general prohibition of the abuse of a dominant position. Section 5 Cartel Act reads as follows:
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Austria
In Austria, competition law infringements in the pharmaceutical sector are covered by the general antitrust provisions, pursuant to the Austrian Cartel Act 2005 (hereafter referred to as “Cartel Act”) and the ...
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In the following, the term “transactional resolutions” covers settlement processes, leniency, transactions, commitments, and other types of transactional resolution.
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Austria
Austria’s food/grocery retail market is characterized, on the one side, by an extremely concentraded market concerning retailers (the two market leaders in Austria, Rewe and Spar, do have a common market share...
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SMEs are not legally defined in Austria in the Austrian legislation on the protection of competition. Therefore, also in accordance with practice in Austria, the answers in Table 2.1 refer to the definition of...