Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2020
exemption for so-called ministerial cartels under Section 8 GWB was discarded without replacement. Similar to the still existing … from the general ban on cartels under Section 1 GWB for "predominant reasons relating to the economy as a whole and the … the much-discussed instrument of ministerial approval under Section 42 GWB by a regulation on the exemption of cartels …