Cartels and Restrictive Agreements
Cases
Construction Cartel
In 2024, the Cartel Court imposed several significant fines on additional construction companies for their participation in a nationwide…
Cartels and Restrictive Agreements
Policy and Procedure
Revised Settlement Guidelines
On 6 November 2023, the AFCA published revised settlement guidelines. Based on these revised guidelines, the AFCA…
Cartels
Legal Framework and Procedure
Guidance on the Reduction of Fines
In January 2022, the Austrian Federal Competition Authority published guidance on the reduction of fines under the Austrian…
I. Cartels
Legal Framework and Procedure
In November 2021, Austria adopted a regulation on certain procedural aspects of leniency applications.[2] The regulation sets out the required content of…
On 10 September 2021, certain significant changes to Austria’s competition law entered into force, although some of the merger control related changes will apply only as of 1 January 2022:
Merger…
On 7 September 2017, the European Court of Justice issued its preliminary ruling in Case C-248/16 Austria Asphalt. The judgment clarifies that a change from sole to joint control over an existing…
Austria will introduce a transaction value merger notification threshold, which will enter into force on 1 November 2017. The draft law and explanatory notes are available here (in German). In…
