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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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Biennial Report XXIV: Competition 2022

Biennial Report of the Monopolies Commission under § 44(1) ARC, July 05, 2022


Monopolies Commission: The ecological-digital transformation will only succeed with a strong competition regime

In its Biennial Report "Competition 2022", the Monopolies Commission makes recommendations on how an adaptation of the competition regime can contribute to the ecological-digital transformation. Today, it presented its report to the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Dr. Robert Habeck.

The Chairman of the Monopolies Commission, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühling, LL.M.: "The competition regime in Germany is an important pillar for coping with the upcoming transformation processes. At the same time, it ensures that market power which arises in the course of digitalisation and increase in concentration in individual sectors is limited. The Monopolies Commission also takes a fundamentally positive view of the most recent considerations of the Ministry for Economic Affairs on a tightening of antitrust law. It already analysed the possibility of an abuse-independent unbundling in 2010 and presented recommendations for the requirements of such an instrument, but also pointed out its limits."

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Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso new member of the Monopolies Commission, terms of Dr. Thomas Nöcker and Prof. Achim Wambach Ph.D. end

Berlin/Bonn, June 30, 2022


The German government has appointed Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso as a member of the Monopolies Commission for a term from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2026.

New Commission member Tomaso Duso has been Head of the Firms and Markets Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since 2013 and a professor of empirical industrial economics at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin since 2018. From 2011 to 2018, he was a university professor at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität (HHU) Düsseldorf. He is spokesperson of the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and a Research Fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Centre for Economic Studies (CESIfo) as well as a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) of the European Commission. His research focuses on applied econometrics in the fields of industrial organization, competition policy, regulation and management.

Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso succeeds Prof. Achim Wambach Ph.D. who will retire from the Commission after two terms on 30 June 2022. Prof. Wambach was a member of the Monopolies Commission from July 2014 to June 2022 and its Chairman from March 2016 to September 2020. Also on 30 June 2022, Dr. Thomas Nöcker will retire from the Commission after three terms. Dr. Nöcker was a member of the Monopolies Commission from July 2010 to June 2022. The German government has not yet decided on his successor.

Important topics of the Monopolies Commission during the memberships of Thomas Nöcker and Achim Wambach were the abuse control of platform companies, the further development of the analysis of company concentration with a view to institutional investors and cross-sectoral indicators of market power as well as distortions of competition in international trade due to subsidies to state and private companies in China. In addition, the Monopolies Commission's opinions on the health care markets are to be mentioned, in particular the Special Report on the development of competition in the German health insurance system and the current Special Report on the reorganisation of hospital care. The Monopolies Commission would like to express its special thanks to Dr. Nöcker and Prof. Wambach for their commitment to competition.


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Hospital care post Covid-19: Reorganizing Competition, Planning and Financing

Special Report of the Monopolies Commission, May 30, 2022


  • The tasks of hospital planning in the federal states should be focused more clearly and effectively on ensuring the provision of care.
  • The German dual hospital finance system should be restructured. The Monopolies Commission suggests a further development of the hospital flat-rate payment as well as the introduction of a provision surcharge that can be controlled by the federal states.
  • Patients should be given better opportunities to compare the quality of medical care provided by hospitals.

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