Region: Norway

The European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority has opened an investigation into the largest electronics retailer in the Nordic region over allegations it implemented exclusivity agreements with suppliers.

25 May 2023

Norway’s antitrust enforcer has blocked a two-to-one merger between a pair of concrete companies, warning that ØB Group's acquisition of rival Betongvarer would have shut-out competition in a local market and caused prices to rise.

11 May 2023

The Oslo District Court has rejected the Norwegian postal operator’s bid for €79.5 million in damages from members of the EU trucks cartel because the claimant failed to present a counterfactual analysis, marking the country's first full-merits judgment relating to the cartel.

14 March 2023

An appellate court correctly overturned a merger prohibition by the national competition authority for the first time when it ruled that the enforcer failed to prove the buyer and seller were direct rivals, Norway’s Supreme Court has said.

20 February 2023

Norway’s trade minister reportedly wants the country’s competition watchdog to check whether supermarket chains have colluded to raise prices by announcing planned hikes through local media.

13 January 2023

Featured in GCR 100 2023

Long-running antitrust investigations into the grocery and publishing sectors continue to keep the majority of Norway’s competition bar busy.

12 December 2022

Norway’s Supreme Court will decide whether to allow a consumer association to act as the class representative in the country’s first-ever antitrust class action against a home alarm cartel, after two lower courts rejected the claim over its funding.

02 December 2022

Norway’s antitrust watchdog has fined the country’s four largest book publishers a combined €52 million for colluding to exchange information through an online library and bookstore information database.

29 November 2022

The European Commission has approved a tie-up between two leading salmon farmers, subject to the divestment of the target’s entire Icelandic business.

01 November 2022

Featured in Enforcer Hub

11 October 2022