The corporate human rights development was fueled by the increasing amount of fines imposed on both European and national level. For many years, the jurisprudence of the ECtHR has classified administrative, including competition law enforcement as a quasi-criminal process during which human...

Article 101 TFEU and Tpvt. 11. § prohibit anti-competitive agreements, concerted practices and decisions of associations of undertakings if they aim or have the effect to restrict, distort or eliminate competition. Our paper, co-written with Botond Horváth, gives an overview of the most...

The paper explores the changes the EU Directive on harmonizing certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions will bring about in Hungary, with a special focus placed on damages liability rules, the interaction of public and...

This paper gives an overview about the legal background and the practice of the Hungarian Competition Authority as regards imposing monetary sanctions for misleading advertising and other types of unfair commercial practices. The sometimes unpredictable fluctuation of the level of fines is...

This paper examines whether the Catholic Church's social teaching has something to tell to antitrust scholars and masters of competition policy. Although papal encyclical letters and other documents are not meant to provide an analytical framework giving clear answers to complex competition...

The paper gives an overview of the decisions handed down by the Hungarian Competition Authority in various public procurement cartel cases in the construction industry. The authors look into questions like the role of market definition, the various types of bid/rigging and the method of...

The paper gives an overview of the recent developments in competition law enforcement in the agricultural sector in jurisdictions like the U.S., the EU and Hungary. I examine critically the new Hungarian law exempting domestic agricultural collusion from the cartel prohibition that raises the...

I will present how Hungarian competition rules and the practice of the Hungarian Competition Authority were influenced by the EU acquis. The Constitutional Court's decision will be presented that paved the way for a decision of the Association Council adopting new Implementing Rules of the...

In this article we introduce the reader to the most important cases in competition law between the beginnings of 2012, until May 2013. Our focus is on either the novelties in the cases or on issues which might be interesting for an international readership due to the recent developments and...

The paper gives an overview about the development of modern Hungarian competition law. It presents how the Europe Agreements' harmonization clause and Article 62 mirroring the competition rules of the E.C. Treaty had an impact on legislation and the evolving practice of the Hungarian Competition...