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Policy Brief on the planned hospital reform

February 13, 2023
In its eleventh policy brief, the Monopolies Commission presents concrete recommendations to ensure hospitals that are necessary and quality competition.read more

Policy Brief on electricity markets

October 11, 2022
In its tenth policy brief, "Further Development of Electricity Markets, Designing a Price Cap in Conformity with Competition", the Monopolies Commission makes recommendations on the electricity price cap.read more

The state and development of business concentration in Germany

July 05, 2022
In view of the concentration potential of the digital transformation and a possible upcoming weak economic phase, developments in Germany should continue to be closely monitored. read more

Decision practice in competition law

July 05, 2022
In its Biennial Report, the Monopolies Commission analyses the years 2020 and 2021 and makes various recommendations, inter alia, on a further-reaching privileged treatment of immunity recipients under civil law.read more

Outlook for the 11th GWB amendment

July 05, 2022
The Monopolies Commission recommends strengthening sector inquiries and unbundling as a last resort in sectors that have been entrenched for a long time.read more

Sustainability and competition

July 05, 2022
Sustainable cooperation agreements need to be assessed under competition law to prevent greenwashing – The Monopolies Commission does not support a general exemption for such cooperations.read more

Digital ecosystems

July 05, 2022
The Monopolies Commission is in favor of measures to make the DMA more effective, but currently against unbundling irrespective of abuse.read more

Hospital care post Covid-19

30. May 2022
Reorganizing Competition, Planning and Financing read more

Competition in transition

16. December 2021
In its 12th Sector Report on telecommunications, the Monopolies Commission makes recommendations on the copper-fiber migration process, mobile communications frequency allocation, and interpersonal telecommunications services, among other things.read more

Competition with new momentum!

16. December 2021
In its 12th Postal Sector Report, the Monopolies Commission recommends a fundamental reform of the German Postal Act and looks at Amazon's role in the parcel market.read more

Recommendations for an effective and efficient Digital Markets Act

5. October 2021
The Monopolies Commission shows how the Digital Markets Act can more specifically protect competition in digital markets to the benefit of consumers.read more

Competition for electricity exchanges, electric vehicle charging and hydrogen infrastructure

1. September 2021
In its 8th Energy Sector Report, the Monopolies Commission makes recommendations, among other things, on the development of infrastructures for electric vehicle charging points and hydrogenread more

Competition on the rail!

21. July 2021
In its 8th Rail Sector Report, the Monopolies Commission recommends, among other things, the introduction of competition-neutral measures in dealing with the Covid 19 consequences and in designing the Deutschlandtakt.read more
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11th Sector Report Post (2019): The amendment to the Postal Act: New opportunities for competition

Sector Report pursuant to Sec. 44 of the Postal Services Act, Bonn, 3 December 2019


  • Competition on the letter market remains insufficient, while it is intensifying on the parcel market
  • Control of abuse of dominance on the letter market should be intensified
  • Consumer protection is to be strengthened by improving the approval procedure for letter postage and by introducing binding conciliation procedures

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11th Sector Report Telecommunications (2019): Governmental Restraint in Network Deployment

Sector Report pursuant to Sec. 121(2) of the German Telecommunications Act, Bonn, 3 December 2019


  • The priority of private investment in broadband deployment should be maintained. State aid should be moderate and targeted where deployment by market players does not take place.
  • The planned fixed-network subsidies in "grey areas" need to be adapted in order to prevent large-scale crowding out of private investments in the fixed network. Gigabit vouchers should be used to strengthen demand.
  • To improve mobile communications coverage, the deployment in previously unserved areas should be put out to tender in a competitive procedure.

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Policy Brief of the Monopolies Commission on the government draft of the Fair Health Insurance Competition Act

Policy Brief | Issue 3 | 21 November 2019


Today the Monopolies Commission presents its third policy brief. It deals with the government draft of the Fair Health Insurance Competition Act and its effects on the development of competition in statutory health insurance.

  • The draft of the Fair Health Insurance Competition Act is to be welcomed and strengthens the competitive conditions in statutory health insurance in several aspects.
  • However, competition for the best health care can only really unfold if the next step is an improved legal framework for individual services offered by the health insurance funds.
  • Insurers who invest in the health of their policyholders are currently not paid equivalent compensation for this. The existing draft law should also include an evaluation mandate to take the incidence rate into account in risk structure compensation.

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