Resale Price Maintenance Practices as a Continuing Offence

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F24%3A00140272" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/24:00140272 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://is.muni.cz/publication/2421718/" target="_blank" >https://is.muni.cz/publication/2421718/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/grurint/ikae061" target="_blank" >10.1093/grurint/ikae061</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Resale Price Maintenance Practices as a Continuing Offence

Original language description

This case note discusses a decision by the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic in the case of BABY DIREKT, which dealt with resale price maintenance practices as a violation of competition law. The Competition Office found BABY DIREKT responsible for committing an offence which arose from the determination and implementation of agreements aimed at increasing the prices of children’s products for sale to end consumers to the minimum resale prices. A future ban was issued and a fine was imposed on BABY DIREKT. The courts dealt with the matter of distinguishing between continuing and lasting offence and with the necessity to identify every individual act constituting a continuing offence (i.e. each of the alleged cartel agreements). The decision emphasizes that in administrative measures against resale price maintenance practices, the competition authority is required to demonstrate that there was an agreement of intent between the supplier and its distributors. Moreover, it must detail every individual act, making it possible to ascertain mutual consent between all contracting parties, thereby confirming the establishment and implementation of cartel agreements.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GRUR International

ISSN

2632-8623

e-ISSN

2632-8550

Volume of the periodical

73

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

802-810

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85200238854