Vertical Price fixing - not a new topic for the BWB
Panellists: Anastasios Xeniadis (BWB) and Heinrich Kühnert (bpv Hügel RA).
Director General, Dr. Theodor Thanner, emphasized in his introduction, that the issue of vertical price fixing and price maintenance is not new for the BWB. Already in 2008, the Federal Competition Authority organized the "Resale Price Maintenance Conference" where many antitrust experts exchanged their point of views and participants were informed about the do's and don'ts in vertical agreements. In the meantime BWB has started an information campaign with the Chamber of Commerce. The BWB has published a draft of guidelines on this issue and asked for comments until 1 of August 2013.