Whether Tchibo and Dallmayr, Chanel and L ' Oréal or Haribo and Knight - weekly drop the names of other companies if it is proven or suspected to price fixing.
is 50 years old became the Federal Cartel Office and has been a year of his anniversary in many ways unpopular. The German Football League (DFL) has just brought it against himself, as it called for a free transfer from Premiership games. Losses in the billions soccer officials fear that the trade of the broadcasting rights. The antitrust authority approved last week, subject to conditions that traders sold the rights of the media entrepreneur Leo Kirch Sirius the rights to the league play-ing centrally. It requires that the highlights of Saturday games will continue to be broadcast in 20 clock-free private or public television.
The relationship between the cartel and the marketing force of the Bundesliga clubs is already rather tense, since officials at the behest of the Federal deskriminalamts the Cartel Office in February, the offices of the DFB and the DFL searched to find evidence of illegal collusion.
Often the national authority noticed lately due to conflicting decisions. It seemed as though one had the face of growing in the population unease about rising consumer prices and the brazen conduct of the Executive Board members on the one hand strives to be a supervisory body against monopolies and price fixing out-imitate wanted, but limit the other hand, no group seriously.
example, was in July, the merger of Edeka and Tengelmann approved with the condition to reject 379 of the 2900-plus stores. It is hard to understand what "the" competition watchdog has prompted if measured by their claims. Currently have the six major food companies, Aldi, Lidl, Edeka, Tengelmann, Rewe and Metro, Germany already had a market share of 90 percent. The merger of Edeka and Plus strengthen that even more concentration.
"Edeka has already announced plans to use the increased buying power to the suppliers to push higher in price", added to Marita Wiggerthale said of the development organization Oxfam Germany. Before that, the suppliers, the purchasing power of Edeka as "classified quite fiercely." The victims the increased market power are small and medium-sized suppliers and the workers and workers in the producing countries.
was also otherwise be some work to do in the past few months. After all, the Cartel Office imposed fines against well-known cosmetics manufacturer-cartel to fix prices could be identified. Such disputes have become more numerous, why feel the non-group and more frequently harassed by the demands of authority.
The reason for this is that the trend towards monopolistic's concentrations of power and concentration of capital in recent years significantly increased-lich. No wonder the capital the authority, de facto, never had anything other than an alibi to prevent effective that companies are really broken, more and more seems Pfinder as a legacy from the days of the so-called Rhineland capitalism em. There are plans for the companies already big. Interesting being allowed te it, for example, if the banking sector, the merger of Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank and Postbank is concluded, there is speculation about for months.
What about the trend looks to monopoly, the reports show gene to another institution. Every two years studying a proposal by the Federal President on the federal government appointed monopoly of the state Commission the concentration of capital in the Federal Republic. Like all economics of the Federal Government appointed advisory committees, the Monopolies Commission makes particular lobby policy "for the privatization of the rail against the proposals of the EU Commission on the unbundling of the industry, the privatization of the" hospital market. That the Commission acts as a neo-liberal think tank and, in keeping with the government, rather state monopolies and "barriers to competition" in the eye than the concentration of economic power of large corporations, should therefore not surprising. The released a few weeks ago 17th Main Report of the Commission nevertheless contains some interesting details. The current
Investigation for the years 2006 and 2007 to the overall economic importance of business groups for all economic sectors shows that 6.3 percent of the companies belonging to a group in Germany. The se-unite some 66 percent of sales and 53 percent of employees themselves. Are particularly high proportions of groups of companies in mining, manufacturing advertising health, energy and water supply, transport and communications.
For Germany, the extreme concentration trationsgrade, based dependencies, and the growing power of corporations already by the previous report of the Monopolies Commission. collected from the 3.3 million commercial court Ger-man individual holdings than a million affiliates. Their vast majority is subject to dominant control, which is often several levels of participation and exercised chains. Among the 50 000 manufacturing firms include 20 or more employees with more than half controlled groups unite over 80 percent of all sales up. Of around 38 000 enterprises in the manufacturing sector while 54 percent are considered independent gig. However, they represent only 26.5 percent of all employees and a proportion of total revenue of 18.2 percent. In short, more than 80 percent industrial production in Germany - which is shaped as much by international standards of The medium-sized businesses - is included in the consolidated business.
"The degree of concentration is in some economic areas, the two" three times the previous official figures, the Monopolies Commission found collectively already held three years ago. If the Federal Cartel Office al-Übernahmeanträ so since some time more and more-ge gets on the table, which amount to the formation of monopolistic power blocs, this is also a result of this development. And it is the logical consequence is the rule, the ideology that it is in principle not a problem when split six major energy companies the market between themselves, as long as they somehow compete with each other yet.
Published in: Jungle World, 31 July 2008
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