Dienstleistungsportal Bayern

When a company is taken over and merged with another company, special features of antitrust law must be observed.

Formalities

Here you will find information about formalities related to this subject:

• Antitrust Supervision; Dominant Companies

  Companies that have the ability to disrupt competitive processes due to their market position are subject to abuse control. The particular market power must be determined on a case-by-case basis.

• Antitrust violations; transmission of anonymous tips

  You can anonymously submit information on possible infringements of antitrust law to the Bundeskartellamt and receive feedback on them.

• Antitrust violations; transmission of submissions or complaints.

  If you have indications of possible violations of antitrust law, you can submit them to the Federal Cartel Office as a submission or complaint.

• Prohibition of cartels; Exempted agreements
  Company cooperations or cartels to promote performance-enhancing cooperation are exempt from the ban on cartels under certain statutory conditions.
• Prohibition of cartels; prosecution of violations

  Agreements between undertakings, decisions of associations of undertakings and concerted practices which have as their object/ effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition are prohibited.

• Water concession and water demarcation agreements; registration
  Water concession contracts or water demarcation contracts must be registered.