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The case dates back to 2015, when the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) determined that Auchan Magyarország Kft. Had violated Commercial Law by requesting a post-reimbursement subsidy fee from approximately three-quarters of non-food suppliers for your products can be included in Auchan’s inventory. The law prohibits the imposition of similar charges and merchants cannot charge for other services that the provider does not require.
After several judicial appeal forums, the case was referred to the Curia for decision, which ratified GVH’s decision. The case was finally closed: the decision of the competition authority became final.
The agency imposed a fine of 10,613,000,000 HUF on the chain of stores.
This is the highest amount ever collected by the competition authority in Hungary in application of commercial law. The fines imposed by GVH will go to Hungary’s central budget.
As before in the case of the same type of infringement by Spar, Kúria confirmed in the Auchan case: it is against Hungarian law for a chain of department stores with significant market power to unilaterally charge an additional fee to a supplier for a service for which there is no actual consideration – read GVH’s statement.
Featured Image: The illuminated Auchan chain of stores in Szigetszentmiklós, MTI / Imre Faludi
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