Tag: Greece
Greece Fines Coca-Cola-Bottler Over Price-Fixing
Greece’s competition committee announced they would slap The Coca Cola Company's largest bottler in the country with an unprecedented 10.34 million euro fine, to...
Greek Watchdog Raids Construction Companies
Teams of Greece’s competition authority have been conducting Dawn Raids in the offices of several construction companies in Attica on Wednesday, as part of...
CPI TV Exclusive With HCC President Ioannis Lianos
Below, we have provided the full transcript of the interview with Ioannis Lianos, president of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC), recorded on July 22,...
CPI TV Ten Minutes With HCC President Ioannis Lianos
Below, we have provided the full transcript of the interview with Ioannis Lianos, president of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC), recorded on July 22,...
The Venture Capitalism Business Model for Start-Ups and the Debate on...
By Petros Vinis (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton)1
On August 27, Greece’s PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis congratulated InstaShop, a grocery delivery platform with around 500,000 users...
The HCC Guide on the Detection and Prevention of Collusive Tendering
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Lia Vitzilaiou, Dec 16, 2014
On September 24, 2014, the Hellenic Competition Commission published...
Abusing Salty Snacks: A Bad Habit With Anticompetitive Effects
Lia Vitzilaiou, Nov 27, 2013
By its judgment No. 869/2013, the Athens Administrative Court of Appeals ruled on an appeal filed by TASTY FOODS S.A....
Interim Measures in Greek Competition Law
Lia Vitzilaiou, Mar 19, 2013
The provisions on interim measures of Greek competition law have been the object of much debate and legislative change over...
Liberalization of Closed Professions: Opening Pandora’s Box
George Zohios, Mar 30, 2011
On February 16, 2011, the Greek parliament plenary passed a bill on liberalizing so-called "closed professions." The deregulation of closed...
Crisis Cartels: For Better or For Worse?
Lia Vitzilaiou, Mar 30, 2011
Cartels typically involve private agreements that limit quantities sold, thereby effectively raising prices; in turn this transfers income from buyers...