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Belgium: Competition Authority Assesses Sustainability Initiative in the Banana Sector

The Belgian Competition Authority recently examined the sustainability initiative of IDHTransforming Markets and certain large retail chains to promote living wages in the banana sector under competition law. The initiative in question aims to limit the gap between actual wages and living wages in the banana sector, and concerns fresh bananas...

Belgium : Market Court partly annuls Belgian Competition Authority decision on a hub and spoke in cigarettes case

Following an enquiry initiated in 2017 and dawn raids carried out the same year, the Competition College of the Belgian Competition Authority concluded on 13 April 2022 its investigation into illegal exchanges of confidential commercially sensitive information via wholesalers and imposed a total of 36 million EUR of fines on four cigarette...

The Belgian Competition Authority adopts new decision in the Caudalie case following Court annulment

In 2021, the Belgian Competition Authority imposed a fine of EUR 859,310 on several companies in the French Caudalie group for breaching competition law by imposing minimum prices and restricting active and passive sales in the framework of its selective distribution network. On December 1 2021, the Market Court annulled the Belgian Competition...