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The Italian Competition Authority clears 9 glass bottle producers of suspected price-fixing in the wine bottle sector, citing exogenous energy and raw material cost shocks (O-I Italy / Verallia Italia / Zignago Vetro.)
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has closed, without finding an infringement, a two-year antitrust probe into nine hollow-glass container producers and distributors over suspected coordination of wine bottle price increases communicated to customers in 2022. The case, opened in October 2023 following an anonymous whistleblower report and two further
The Italian Competition Authority accepts commitments from the national bar council to narrow a fair-fee deontological rule to large clients, closing its antitrust investigation (Consiglio Nazionale Forense)
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has closed, without finding an infringement, its investigation into the Consiglio Nazionale Forense (CNF) — the governing body of the Italian bar — over a deontological rule that appeared to extend the country's "fair compensation" regime for lawyers' fees beyond the scope intended by the legislature. The rule at issu
The Italian Competition Authority finds a Rome taxi-booking cooperative compliant with its 2018 order to relax absolute exclusivity clauses for affiliated drivers, but imposes a €29.6K periodic penalty payment for the delay (Radiotaxi 3570)
Closing a compliance saga that began in 2018, the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has ruled that Rome's largest radiotaxi cooperative, Radiotaxi 3570, has finally adopted adequate measures to end the absolute non-compete obligations binding its roughly 4,000 affiliated drivers to its proprietary ItTaxi platform. The finding follows two prior decisions h
The Italian Competition Authority revokes the 2015 commitments imposed on a national packaging compliance consortium and its plastic packaging arm, finding that legislative reforms rendered the measures obsolete in the market for recycling secondary and t
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has revoked, in their entirety, the five commitments it made binding in 2015 on the national packaging consortium CONAI and its plastics arm COREPLA to resolve concerns that the consortia had obstructed the market entry of Sistema P.A.R.I., an independent waste-management scheme set up by Aliplast S.p.A. Acting on a j
The Italian Competition Authority closes its cartel investigation into 7 vehicle maintenance companies over the use of joint bidding groupings in public tenders for a municipal waste company's fleet servicing, finding insufficient evidence of collusion (P
Background The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) opened proceeding I869 on 4 June 2024, following a report from AMA S.p.A., the wholly publicly-owned company responsible for urban sanitation and cemetery services in Rome. The opening decision targeted seven vehicle repair and maintenance firms — Autofficina F.lli Pennesi, MFM, Autofficina Pontina, Drive L
The Italian Competition Authority redetermines the duration of an exclusivity infringement over Serie A football rights to 18 months and cuts the streaming platform's fine to €3.7M (Tim / DAZN)
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has closed its re-examination of the TIM-DAZN Serie A distribution agreement, confirming that the exclusivity clauses at the heart of the Deal Memo restricted competition by object from the date of signature (27 January 2021) until the parties replaced the agreement on 3 August 2022 — a duration far longer than the 32
The Italian Competition Authority fines 6 oil companies €936.7M for a horizontal cartel coordinating simultaneous increases to the biofuel cost component of automotive fuel prices, triggered by a whistleblower report (ENI / Q8 / Italiana Petroli.)
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has closed a two-year investigation by fining six of Italy's largest oil companies a combined €936.7M for coordinating increases to the "bio" component of automotive fuel prices between January 2020 and June 2023. The Authority found that ENI, Esso Italiana, Italiana Petroli, Kuwait Petroleum Italia (Q8), Saras and Ta