Taking into account the public importance of competition law and its role in improving the business environment, the Supreme Court has summarized the Senate's case law on competition cases.

The latest compilation of the Senate's case-law findings serves as an update to previous one, which contains the rulings of the Senate's Department of Administrative Cases, adopted between 2007 and 2018. Now, the compilation about competition cases has been supplemented with case-law findings of the last four years.

The summary is mainly created as a commentary on the norms of the Competition Law, in which the findings found in the Senate rulings are arranged according to relevant articles of the Law. Moreover, a section has been created that tackles procedural issues.

In the updated compilation, special attention is paid to the issue of compensation for losses caused by competition law infringements.

Issues such as anti-competitive practices, including cartels and abuse of a dominant position, liability for anti-competitive practices, merger control of market participants, case investigation procedure, as well as determination of fines are also considered.

The compilation includes findings from more than 100 rulings. For the convenience of users, the list of rulings is supplemented with hyperlinks to those rulings that have been published on the Internet.

The compilation was updated by the Supreme Court's Division of Case-law and Research in cooperation with the Department of Administrative Cases and the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate. 

 

Information prepared by

Rasma Zvejniece, the Head of the Division of Communication of the Supreme Court

E-mail: rasma.zvejniece@at.gov.lv, telephone: +371 67020396, +371 286522