The Basque Competition Authority is investigating whether the Euskadi Notary Association and the Euskal Sagardoa Designation of Origin Regulatory Council have made a “collective price recommendation”.
Euskaraz irakurri: notary and sagardogileek prezioak adostu ote dituzten ikertzen ari dira
The Basque Competition Authority (AVC) is investigating whether the Euskadi Notarial Association and the Regulatory Board of the Designation of Origin Euskal Sagardoa (cider) have made a “collective price recommendation” in their respective areas of activity.
This was revealed on Monday by the entity’s president, Alba Urresola, who appeared in the parliamentary committee to present the AVC action plan for 2023 and the activity report for 2022, the year in which the entity celebrated its tenth anniversary.
Urresola explained that he is currently working four disciplinary proceedings, one of which started in 2022 and is now in the research phase. It refers to the quotations of the computer company of the Basque government, EJIEand in it 13 companies are investigated for possible covert practices.
The other three files were opened this year 2023. One of them examines whether the Notarial Association of the Basque Country has raised a “collective recommendation behavior in the prices of notarial deeds or policies” in the moratoriums on loans due to the covid.
Partly because of a possible price agreement, a file has been opened with the Regulatory Council of the Euskal Sagardoa Designation of Origin. The other file has been submitted to the companies anger and memory for possible abuse of a dominant position on the funeral market in Villabona.
Last year, the Basque Competition Authority worked on 124 files, 31 cases were investigated and 6 files were processed.
The exercise ended with four sanctions in cases carried over from 2021: the investigation into 36 estate agents in Bilbao for commissions charged for the rental, against a fumigation company for abusing its “monopolistic” position, two funeral companies in Gipuzkoa for abuse of a dominant position, and to two companies that Bids for Bilbao City Council were agreed for five years.
In total, the Basque Competition Authority imposed fines worth 252,000 euros last year (in 2021 this was 114,000 euros).
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Source: EITB
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