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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

Policy Brief on the Digital Markets Act (DMA)

06. July 2021
In its eighth policy brief, the Monopolies Commission recommends that the proposed EU regulation for a digital markets act (DMA) should be more closely aligned with ecosystems acting across markets.Read more

China's state capitalism

29 July 2020
The Monopolies Commission makes recommendations to meet the associated challenges for the European market economy by introducing a control of third-country support measures that distort competition (so-called third-country State aid instrument).read more

Efficient structures in the German hospital sector

29 July 2020
The Monopolies Commission recommends amendments to antitrust law for mergers between hospitals, through which possible quality effects can be recorded more precisely.read more

Competition in the Corona crisis

29 July 2020
The Monopolies Commission deals with the effects of the Corona crisis on competition and makes recommendations in the field of merger and State aid control.read more

Concentration among companies

29 July 2020
According to the Monopolies Commission’s concentration report the share of value added of the 100 largest companies in Germany continues its downward trend. At the same time, the Monopolies Commission sees a slight increase in sectoral concentration as well as rising markups in the manufacturing sector.read more

Decision-making practice in competition law

29 July 2020
In its Biennial Report, the Monopolies Commission analyses the decision-making practice in competition law in the years 2018 and 2019 and makes various recommendations in this regard, inter alia, on competition problems in digital markets and in the sports sector.read more

Ministerial Authorization

19 August 2019
The Monopolies Commission is critical of ministerial authorization in Miba/Zollern case. read more

Policy Brief on the draft bill for a 10th amendment to the Competition Act

29 January 2020
In its fourth policy brief, the Monopolies Commission discusses the draft bill for a Competition Law Digitisation Act.read more
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Biennial Report XXII: Competition 2018

Biennial Report of the Monopolies Commission under § 44(1) ARC, 3 July 2018


Monopolies Commission: Digital change requires legal adjustments regarding price algorithms, the media sector and the supply of medicines

Digitalisation is irreversibly advancing in many areas of the economy. Prices are increasingly set on the basis of algorithms. Streaming services and video portals such as Netflix and YouTube are gaining in popularity and are replacing traditional television more and more. In the supply of medicines, the mail order business increasingly supplements the services of brick and mortar pharmacies. The resulting structural change should be shaped for the benefit of consumers, with fair rules for traditional and new suppliers. In its Biennial Report 2018, the Monopolies Commission therefore recommends adapting the legal framework to the digital change. Today the Monopolies Commission presented its Report to the Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Peter Altmaier.

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Special Report No. 80: Fixed Book Prices in a Changing Market Environment

Special Report of the Monopolies Commission pursuant to Section 44 para. 1 sentence 4 GWB, 29 May 2018


  • Monopolies Commission recommends abolishing the statutory rules on fixed book prices.

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Post 2017: Eliminate privileges, design regulation effectively!

Special Report pursuant to Sec. 44 of the Postal Services Act, Bonn, 4 December 2017


  • The Monopolies Commission notes almost no progress, even twenty years after the entry into force of the Postal Act, in the development of competition on the letter markets.
  • The Monopolies Commission deems the creation of equal competitive conditions on the postal markets and the extension of the powers of the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) as urgently necessary preconditions for effective competition.
  • The Monopolies Commission recommends a reform of the national regulatory framework and an examination of the agreements of international postal organisations.

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