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Global Competition Review: recent trends in Estonia
We contributed to the Global Competition Review (GCR), focusing on recent events and trends in the competition field in Estonia. Class actions are unlikely to become common in Estonia Our team of lawyers, together with other prominent competition law practitioners, analyzed recent merger investigations and complaints and concluded that it is very unlikely that class […]
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Is the Riigikogu about to hike the tax burden of consumers?
Estonians have not yet recovered from this fall’s electricity price shock, while the 2022 state budget already aims to considerably hike traffic fines and state fees. As if that was not enough, the government introduced a bill in late September that promises to increase the tax burden further, our partner Allar Jõks and counsel Piibe […]
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Excessive pricing of personal protective equipment as an abuse of a dominant position
The global spread of SARS-CoV-2 is disrupting regular supply chains and has sharply increased demand for personal protective equipment. WHO reported on 3 March 2020 that since the start of the outbreak, prices of personal protective equipment had surged. The prices of surgical masks had increased six times, the prices of N95 respirators three times […]
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Piibe Lehtsaar: Travel agency services are not a thing of the past according to the Estonian Competition Authority
In August 2019, the Estonian Competition Authority (ECA) prohibited a proposed merger between two travel agency services providers in Estonia. In her most recent article, our senior associate Piibe Lehtsaar analyses the case and gives a short overview of why the travel agencies’ arguments were rejected by the ECA. Read the full text on Competition […]