15.10.2010, 23:15
Men det jeg ikke skjønner, er at det er lov?.
Ja, Mercedes kan sette opp en offisielll importør i Norge, men de kan ikke nekte eller hindre forhandler X i danmark å selge til Importør Y i Norge. Det vil vel være i strid med EU's konkurranseregler.
På midten av '90 tallet solgte Nintendo maskiner opptil 65% billigere i England enn i nederland og Tyskland. Nintendo og 7 av distributørene begynte å samarbeide og jobbe for å hindre parallelimport.
det skulle de ikke ha gjort. Eu startet undersøkeleser i 1995 og i okt 2002 fikk Nintendo og de 7 distributørene en <b>samlet bot på 167.8 millioner Euro</b>. Justert for inflasjon, er det rett under €200mil i 2009.
I presseuttalelsen står det:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE<!--quotec-->As a result of the illicit behaviour of Nintendo and its official distributors, families on continental Europe had to put up with high prices. To measure the harm caused to consumers it is sufficient to note that Nintendo sold five million game consoles and 12 million games in Europe in 1997 alone.
Article 81 of the EU treaty specifically prohibits agreements and concerted practices "which may affect trade between Member States and which may have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the (EU's) common market".
<b>Restrictions of parallel trade represent a very serious infringement of Article 81 as confirmed by the European Courts </b>as early as 1966 in the landmark Grundig-Consten case(1) and, more recently, in the 1998 Volkswagen decision(2).
The seriousness of the infringement and the harm caused to end-consumers led the Commission to impose a total fine of €167.843 million, i.e. the fifth largest ever imposed for any anti-trust infringement. It is also by far the largest fine ever imposed for a so-called vertical infringement i.e., in this case, between a producer and its distributors as opposed to a horizontal cartel between manufacturers of the same product. The fine on Nintendo is also the fourth largest ever imposed on an individual firm for a single infringement.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ja, Mercedes kan sette opp en offisielll importør i Norge, men de kan ikke nekte eller hindre forhandler X i danmark å selge til Importør Y i Norge. Det vil vel være i strid med EU's konkurranseregler.
På midten av '90 tallet solgte Nintendo maskiner opptil 65% billigere i England enn i nederland og Tyskland. Nintendo og 7 av distributørene begynte å samarbeide og jobbe for å hindre parallelimport.
det skulle de ikke ha gjort. Eu startet undersøkeleser i 1995 og i okt 2002 fikk Nintendo og de 7 distributørene en <b>samlet bot på 167.8 millioner Euro</b>. Justert for inflasjon, er det rett under €200mil i 2009.
I presseuttalelsen står det:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE<!--quotec-->As a result of the illicit behaviour of Nintendo and its official distributors, families on continental Europe had to put up with high prices. To measure the harm caused to consumers it is sufficient to note that Nintendo sold five million game consoles and 12 million games in Europe in 1997 alone.
Article 81 of the EU treaty specifically prohibits agreements and concerted practices "which may affect trade between Member States and which may have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the (EU's) common market".
<b>Restrictions of parallel trade represent a very serious infringement of Article 81 as confirmed by the European Courts </b>as early as 1966 in the landmark Grundig-Consten case(1) and, more recently, in the 1998 Volkswagen decision(2).
The seriousness of the infringement and the harm caused to end-consumers led the Commission to impose a total fine of €167.843 million, i.e. the fifth largest ever imposed for any anti-trust infringement. It is also by far the largest fine ever imposed for a so-called vertical infringement i.e., in this case, between a producer and its distributors as opposed to a horizontal cartel between manufacturers of the same product. The fine on Nintendo is also the fourth largest ever imposed on an individual firm for a single infringement.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->