At the end of last year, the Competition Council (the CC) of Latvia adopted a decision and imposed a fine on the company SIA Interlux for failure to execute lawful requests during an investigation…
Public bodies’ involvement into commercial activities is named as the most significant competition issue by more than half of respondents of public opinion poll carried out by the Competition Council…
The Competition Council of Latvia (the CC) has identified a number of existing competition barriers created by both market structure and regulatory framework in the waste-management market in Latvia…
The Competition Council of Latvia (the CC) has concluded negotiation procedure with the local government’s (municipality’s) owned SIA Aizkraukles ūdens on its alleged abuse of market power. Thus, the…
On 6 October, the Competition Council of Latvia (the CC) took a decision to fine seven companies for coordinating their actions in 29 price quotations organized by the state-owned railway company VAS…
On 30 September, the Competition Council of Latvia (the CC) fined SIA Knauf and Norgips sp. z o. o. (Poland), a parent company of SIA Norgips that is also a part of a KnaufGroup, for abusing their…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia (the CM) has awarded the Competition Council of Latvia (the CC) a Certificate of appreciation “for effective detection of competition infringements and promotion of…
On 18 October Chief Competition Economist working group meeting of the European Competition Network (ECN) for the first time took place in Riga, Latvia. More than 35 chief economists from the…
Latvian national gas supplier AS Latvijas Gāzehas paid a EUR 2.2 million fine as the Supreme Court upheld the decision by the Latvian Competition Council (the CC).In 2013, the CC finedAS Latvijas…
On 14 September, the Supreme Court of Latvia has rejected an appeal from SIA BMS-Baltijas Marketing Serviss (the BMS) and confirmed that a third party does not have subjective rights to require the…
