Special Report by the Monopolies Commission pursuant to Section 44(1)(4) ARC, 7 March 2017

• The Monopolies Commission criticizes competition deficits in statutory and private health insurance, which reduce the efficiency of the health insurance system and burden the insureds with unnecessary cost.
• The Monopolies Commission argues for more leeway for the health care management in statutory health insurance and advocates developing the risk adjustment scheme (Risikostrukturausgleich) further to eliminate distortions of competition.
• The Monopolies Commission proposes a concept for rendering the change of private health insurance providers more attractive and recommends to facilitate the combination of tariffs whenever private insurers merge.

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Biennial Report of the Monopolies Commission under § 44(1) ARC, 20 September 2016

The Monopolies Commission has submitted its twenty-first Biennial Report ('Hauptgutachten') pursuant to § 44(1) of the Act Against Restraints on Competition (ARC) to the Federal Minister of the Economy and Energy. The Report is entitled:

"XXIst Main Report – Competition 2016".

The subject matters of the Report encompass the following:

• The analysis of company concentration and the competition authorities' decision practice, as provided by law;
• The following additional subjects: the ministerial proposal for a 9th amendment to the German ARC, the regulation of airports, the central marketing of football broadcasting rights, and digital markets: the sharing economy and FinTechs.

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Press Release, Bonn, 14 July 2016

The Federal President has appointed Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühling, LL.M. as member of the Monopolies Commission for a term from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2020. Dagmar Kollmann and Dr. Angelika Westerwelle, both entrepreneurs and supervisory board members, were appointed for another term. Dagmar Kollmann has been a Member of the Monopolies Commission since 1 January 2012, and Dr. Angelika Westerwelle since 1 July 2008.

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