Region: Lithuania

The European Court of Justice has confirmed that the European Commission was right not to analyse Lithuanian Railways’ track removal as a refusal to supply an essential facility, as the destruction of infrastructure can constitute an abuse of dominance in its own right.

12 January 2023

Lithuania’s Competition Council has levied a record €72 million cartel fine on eight pharmaceutical companies and an industry association that conspired to influence the government when it set new maximum prices for certain drugs.

13 December 2022

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Local lawyers face off against a Lithuanian competition watchdog that secured €12.8 million in cartel fines in 2021, more than four times the amount than the previous three years combined.

12 December 2022

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11 October 2022

The EU’s General Court was right not to apply the essential facilities test used in Bronner when it ruled that Lithuanian Railways hindered competition by removing a 19-kilometer stretch of track, an advocate general at the European Court of Justice has said.

07 July 2022

An administrative court in Lithuania has annulled a decision by the national competition enforcer to sanction the country’s top professional basketball league and its member clubs for colluding to restrict players’ salaries after a season was cancelled over covid-19 concerns.

08 June 2022

The heads of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian competition agencies have called on the International Competition Network to suspend Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service over the country’s “unacceptable” and “outrageous” invasion of Ukraine.

25 February 2022

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Alongside its close monitoring of behavioural issues linked to public procurement and industry associations, Lithuania’s Competition Council is paying greater attention to digital markets in line with the trend among enforcers the world over.

10 December 2021

Lithuania’s Competition Council has fined the country’s top professional basketball league and all of its clubs for colluding to restrict players’ salaries after a season was cancelled due to covid-19.

22 November 2021

Lithuania’s Competition Council has blocked a proposed tie-up between two telecom rivals, two years after the companies abandoned their first merger attempt over the enforcer’s competition concerns.

29 June 2021