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Resale price maintenance does not necessarily constitute a restriction of competition by object
Following a dispute between Super Bock Bebidas SA (hereinafter 'Super Bock'), AN and BQ and the Portuguese Competition Authority, the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter the 'ECJ') was recently asked to rule on a number of issues relating to vertical agreements fixing minimum resale prices[1]. In this case, Super Bock, whose main activity is the marketing of bottled beers and waters, and AN and BQ, respectively a member of its board of directors and the director of its on-trade[2] sales department, infringed the competition rules, according to the Portuguese Competition Authority, whose decision was upheld by the (...)
Following a dispute between Super Bock Bebidas SA (hereinafter 'Super Bock'), AN and BQ and the Portuguese Competition Authority, the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter the 'ECJ') was recently asked to rule on a number of issues relating to vertical agreements fixing minimum resale prices[1]. In this (...)