The ECJ gave a preliminary ruling based on national proceedings between the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline and Greek wholesalers exporting pharmaceutical products to countries where prices for medicines are higher, following…
After concluding its examination acting on a complaint, the HCC’s Directorate General of Competition has found that the long-standing legal restrictions on lawyers to represent their clients in courts (in…
After 173 years of consistent application, the Council of State in plenum (Greece’s supreme administrative court) adjudicated that the administrative measure of detention for public debts is unconstitutional. The Council…
The HCC examined the vertical aspects of the market for milk and dairy products, investigating six supermarket chains and four dairy processors. It found that they had entered into agreements…
The HCC fined 10 companies in total for a number of serious infringements of Article 1 para.1 of Law 703/77 on free competition in the dairy products market. According to…
Law 3604/2007 amending Law 2190/1920 on SA (Société Anonym) has entered into force as of 08-Aug-07. The new provisions aim at modernising the current regime, which has to a certain…
The Hellenic Competition Commission has published a list of indicative criteria for the prioritisation of pending and future cases. In that respect, it abandons the criterion of the chronological order…
This public consultation is taking place in the context of the Hellenic Competition Commission’s investigation under article 5 of Law 703/1977, which allows the Commission to intervene in a particular…
The aim is to modify the current regime in Greece so as to take advantage, to the fullest extent possible, of the regional aid ceilings allowed by the new -approved…
Summary: The Hellenic Leniency Programme is undoubtedly a necessary tool in the fight against cartels in Greece. Nevertheless, it raises a number of theoretical and practical issues, which would have…
