"Competitors and consumer advocates are reacting ever more drastically to forms of unfair competition. The number of court cases is steadily increasing, partly because competitors are suing each other for fair competition compliance. Every company should therefore consider competition compliance in areas such as antitrust law, market abuse, advertising, product declaration or customer approach in order to avoid unfair actions, because mistakes can happen quickly here."
- Fair/unfair competition: What are the liability risks?
- Main features, definitions and examples of unfair competition
- Overview of associations, agreements and price agreements
- Abuse of a dominant position
- Overview Antitrust Law
- Behaviour to avoid unintentional collusion More info
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Violations of competition law have happened quickly
Many creative marketing ideas can backfire, or constitute a violation of the DSGVO. All forms of illicit or misleading advertising, consumer deception, missing labels, inferior ingredients or false information about the country of origin will also be punished. Therefore, make your company fit its employees in all important areas of competition compliance.
Cartel formation and restriction of free competition
It is important to deal with the issue of competition compliance so that agreements within an industry association, for example, are not entered into that are interpreted by their customers (or a court) as foreclosure of the market or as price agreements. Important focal points of this e-learning are therefore competition law and antitrust law. Those who hold a dominant market position also run the risk of hindering competition.
Appropriate measures
The "Competition Compliance" module describes the concrete structural, process-specific and personal compliance measures and behaviors for employees that effectively prevent violations and liability in the area of competition compliance.
FAQ
Assume that increasingly critical and litigious consumers, consumer protection associations and your competitors are observing your company and, in the event of violations, are either filing a complaint or appointing one of the notorious warning lawyers to your company. Many such attorneys also have a business model: they look for violations to find one of your competitors to admonish them with this kind of friendly support. The new forms of sample declaratory relief reinforce this trend and make competition and product compliance an important issue.
In order to go to court, it is sufficient if you only call a private customer without having obtained his consent beforehand. This is a violation of both data protection and fair trading law. Private consumers are increasingly taking drastic action against unauthorised advertising. All forms of illicit or misleading advertising, consumer deception, lack of labelling, inferior ingredients or false information about the country of origin are also punished as violations of the law. Violations of the "black list" of unfair competition have happened quickly and are always punished.
Corruption distorts competition and can lead to high liability and compensation costs. The reputation of affected companies is also severely threatened. In countries with high levels of corruption, the economy and society stagnate. Corruption regularly has a negative impact on the environment and often leads to embezzlement, fraud or a lower quality of products and services. In the case of tender fraud (corruption in tender procedures), companies can be excluded from further participation in tenders. In public sector procurement procedures this is usually the case for a longer period. Missing or inadequate compliance processes for effective prevention and prevention of corruption regularly lead to liability and higher fines. Companies competing in third countries can sue your company if they suspect corruption, even if they are not active in the competitor's home market, due to the increasingly stringent international regulations. You can therefore find yourself very quickly and abruptly in legal proceedings, the costs of which can be considerable, especially in international trade. Effective anti-corruption measures are therefore also essential for small and medium-sized enterprises.
