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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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by company- Ryanair DAC, Ryanair Holdings plc €255.8m 73 % · 1 case
- České dráhy (ČD) und Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) €48.7m 14 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €18.9m 5 % · 8 cases
- Air Caraïbes (mit Groupe Dubreuil Aéro, Groupe Dubreuil); K Finance (Mutter von Air Antilles/CAIRE); Miles Plus €14.6m 4 % · 1 case
- Kakao Mobility Inc. €10m 3 % · 1 case
- A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S €1.34m 0 % · 1 case
- Aramex New Zealand Holdings Limited €355,800 0 % · 1 case
- GXO Logistics, Inc. und Wincanton Limited – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | €6.33m |
| 2023 | 2 | €1.33m |
| 2024 | 7 | €84.5m |
| 2025 | 3 | €257.1m |
| 2026 | 1 | €355,800 |
15 cases
4 Mar 2026 Aramex New Zealand Holdings LimitedAramex: 700,000 NZD for customer allocation in a reseller agreement €355,800
In 2021 the courier company concluded an agreement with a competitor acting as reseller that allocated customers and fixed prices, and gave effect to the non-compete clause on one occasion; the wording had been copied from an older Fastway template. In civil proceedings brought by the Commerce Commission (ComCom, New Zealand's competition authority), the High Court on 4 March 2026 approved the jointly proposed penalty, allegedly of 700,000 NZD (starting point 1 million NZD, 30% reduction).
Contract templates should be reviewed regularly for competition law risks before they are copied for new partners.
Competition law review of contract templates
- Authority / court
- High Court Auckland (Klage: Commerce Commission)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Commerce Act 1986, s 30
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Culpability
- negligent
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- No previous warnings or contraventions, voluntary provision of documents and interviews, early admission and remorse, new agreements without the clause and a new competition law compliance programme in New Zealand and Australia.
- Liability of senior managers
- The agreement was prepared from a template by the national sales manager; a more senior employee signed it without reviewing its content.
- Published
- 4 Mar 2026
Original amount 700,000 NZD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 4 Mar 2026.
- Commerce Commission v Aramex New Zealand Holdings Limited [2026] NZHC 444, Judgment 4 March 2026 Court decision
- Commerce Commission: Couriers ordered to pay $1.225 million after investigation into cartel conduct (04.03.2026) Press release of an authority
- Commerce Commission, Case register: Aramex New Zealand Holdings Limited (PRJ0045982) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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23 Dec 2025 Ryanair DAC, Ryanair Holdings plcItaly: 255.8 million EUR against Ryanair for obstructing travel agencies €255.8m
From April 2023 until at least April 2025, Ryanair obstructed travel agencies from buying Ryanair flights in combination with other services, for example through facial recognition procedures, account deletions, blocking of means of payment and restrictive partner agreements. The AGCM considered this to be an abuse of a dominant position and imposed fines of 255,761,692 EUR on a joint and several basis.
Dominant providers must not use technical barriers to force sales partners and resellers out of the market.
- Authority / court
- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 23 Dec 2025
- A568 - Ryanair DAC and its parent company Ryanair Holdings plc fined over € 255 million for abuse of a dominant position Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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26 Aug 2025 GXO Logistics, Inc. und Wincanton LimitedGXO/Wincanton: supermarket warehouse logistics must be sold after takeover Order
GXO had already acquired Wincanton in April 2024; the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) imposed a hold-separate order, appointed a monitoring trustee and, in Phase 2, found a lessening of competition in dedicated warehousing services for grocery retail. Under the final undertakings, GXO committed to divest Wincanton’s business serving supermarket customers.
Anyone completing a deal before the merger review has concluded bears the risk of having to give up parts of the acquired business again.
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Enterprise Act 2002, ss. 41, 82, 90 (Final Undertakings)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- CMA case page: GXO / Wincanton merger inquiry Official register or notice
- CMA: Notice of acceptance of Final Undertakings (GXO / Wincanton), 26.08.2025 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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27 Jun 2025 A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/SA.P. Møller-Mærsk: DKK 10m for failing to notify an acquisition (gun-jumping) €1.34m
The Sø- og Handelsretten (Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court) ordered A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S to pay a civil fine of 10,000,000 DKK because the acquisition of Pilot Air Freight Holdings by its US subsidiary Damco USA in May 2022 had neither been notified in Denmark nor cleared before completion. The authority had sought at least 20 million DKK; the court found the failure grossly negligent but reduced the fine because of the self-report, full cooperation and an existing compliance programme.
Acquisitions by foreign subsidiaries also need a turnover-threshold screening for every jurisdiction before completion.
Merger control screening for transactions by foreign subsidiaries
- Authority / court
- Sø- og Handelsretten (Klage der Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Konkurrenceloven § 12 b stk. 1 og § 12 c stk. 5, 1. pkt.; Bußgeldbemessung nach § 23 b
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Prompt notification to the authority once the filing obligation was discovered, full and loyal cooperation, an existing competition compliance programme that was followed; a one-off internal screening error.
- Published
- 27 Jun 2025
Original amount 10,000,000 DKK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Jun 2025.
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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17 Dec 2024 Kakao Mobility Inc.Kakao Mobility blocked drivers of rival taxi services: KRW 15.1bn fine €10m
According to the KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea's competition authority), Kakao Mobility, dominant in app-based general taxi hailing with a 96% share (2022), required four competing franchise taxi operators (UT, TADA, Banban, Macaron Taxi) to sign partnership agreements granting real-time access to business-sensitive data and otherwise excluded their drivers from general hailing via Kakao T. Following its plenary deliberation on 25 September 2024, the KFTC ordered remedies and announced a provisional fine of KRW 72.4 billion; after the Securities and Futures Commission had determined that revenue must be recognised on a net basis, it announced on 17 December 2024 that the fine had been finally set at KRW 15.1 billion.
A dominant platform must not make access to its core service conditional on competitors handing over sensitive business data.
Self-preferencing and exclusion of competitors by platforms
- Authority / court
- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 Nr. 3 und Art. 45 Abs. 1 Nr. 6 MRFTA (Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 17 Dec 2024
Original amount 15,100,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Dec 2024.
- KFTC press release (EN), 2 Oct 2024: KFTC Sanctions Kakao Mobility for Abuse of Market Dominance (Scan) Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO), 02.10.2024: 카카오모빌리티의 시장지배적지위 남용행위 제재 Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO, PDF), 02.10.2024: Rechtsgrundlagen (공정거래법 제5조 제1항 제3호, 제45조 제1항 제6호) und Marktanteil Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressehinweis (KO), 17.12.2024: ㈜카카오모빌리티의 콜차단 시지남용 건, 과징금 확정 (151억 원) Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressehinweis (KO, PDF), 17.12.2024: endgültige Festsetzung der Geldbuße nach Nettomethode Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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4 Dec 2024 Air Caraïbes (mit Groupe Dubreuil Aéro, Groupe Dubreuil); K Finance (Mutter von Air Antilles/CAIRE); Miles PlusCaribbean inter-island flights: EUR 14.57 million for Air Caraïbes and Air Antilles cartel €14.6m
Between 2015 and 2019, Air Caraïbes and Air Antilles (Compagnie Aérienne Inter Régionale Express, CAIRE), with the involvement of Miles Plus (Aérogestion), coordinated in four agreements on capacity cuts, the allocation of flight slots and prices and fare conditions on inter-island routes in the Caribbean. The Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) imposed EUR 13 million jointly on Air Caraïbes, Groupe Dubreuil Aéro and Groupe Dubreuil, EUR 1.5 million on K Finance as parent company of the insolvent CAIRE, and EUR 70,000 on Miles Plus.
Even in small regional markets shaped by a few providers, agreements on capacity and fares are serious cartel infringements.
Agreements on capacity and prices between competitors
- Authority / court
- Autorité de la concurrence
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. L. 420-1 Code de commerce; Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement procedure for the Groupe Dubreuil companies and Miles Plus; no fine was imposed on CAIRE, which is in liquidation, or on its direct parent company owing to inability to pay.
- Published
- 4 Dec 2024
- Autorité de la concurrence, Liste des décisions et avis (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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23 Oct 2024 České dráhy (ČD) und Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB)ČD and ÖBB: €48.65m for collusion against a new rail competitor €48.7m
According to the European Commission's findings, the Czech and Austrian rail incumbents coordinated from 2012 to 2016 on sales of used ÖBB long-distance carriages so that the new entrant RegioJet could not buy them, including through coordinated timing, rigged sales procedures and exchanges of confidential bidder information. The fines amount to 31,940,000 EUR for ČD and 16,712,000 EUR for ÖBB, which received a 45% reduction as leniency applicant (48,652,000 EUR in total).
State-owned companies, too, must not coordinate asset sales with competitors to keep new entrants out of the market.
Coordination between competitors in sales and bidding procedures
- Authority / court
- Europäische Kommission
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 101 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- ÖBB: 45% reduction under the leniency programme.
- Published
- 23 Oct 2024
- Commission fines České dráhy and Österreichische Bundesbahnen €48.7 million over collusion to exclude common competitor (IP/24/5425) Press release of an authority
- Presscorner-Schnittstelle, Volltext IP/24/5425 Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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23 Sep 2024 a dominant Austrian postal operatorAustria: EUR 9.2m fine on a postal operator for discriminatory bulk mail discounts €9.2m
The Kartellgericht (Cartel Court) fined an Austrian postal operator 9.2 million EUR for abusing its dominant position in addressed bulk mail from 2017 to early 2022: consolidators received worse discount scales, discounts or annual bonuses than other large customers for the same annual volume, and the discounts agreed with large customers were subject to a confidentiality obligation. The fine followed an already final cease-and-desist order obtained by a consolidator; the company acknowledged the infringement in a settlement.
Dominant companies must design discount schemes so that comparable customers, including consolidators, are not disadvantaged, and must not shield terms behind confidentiality clauses.
Abuse of market power through discount schemes
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht (Antrag der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- § 5 KartG und Art. 102 AEUV; § 29 Abs. 1 Z 1 lit. a und d KartG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Reduction for the consensual termination of the proceedings (settlement); damage already made good.
- Published
- 25 Feb 2025
- RIS, Judikatur Justiz (Suche) (Entscheidung 2024) Court decision
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 23 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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10 Jun 2024 a Valais transport and waste disposal company and four other companiesWEKO: sanction against Valais transport and waste disposal firm over bid rigging €98,722
Companies engaged in the collection, transport and disposal of waste in Valais colluded on bids. WEKO imposed a sanction of CHF 95,138 on the transport and waste disposal company (another company: CHF 0), approved amicable settlements and apportioned the procedural costs among four companies.
Municipal waste disposal contracts are a focus of competition authorities – contacts about bids among competitors are off-limits, including among SMEs.
Collusion in municipal waste disposal tenders
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 3 i.V.m. Abs. 1 KG, Art. 49a Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- Amicable settlements; leniency programme (another company free of sanctions)
Original amount 95,138 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Jun 2024.
- WEKO, Entscheide (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 10 Jun 2026 · Direct link
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18 Mar 2024 two South African removal companiesRemovals cartel: two South African removal companies pay ZAR 40m over cover quotes €1.94m
On 18 March 2024 the Competition Tribunal (South Africa's competition adjudicator) confirmed a settlement in which two removal companies, subsidiaries of a transport group, admitted involvement in a cartel based on cover quotes; it affected jobs for government departments, large companies and private customers, with the alleged conduct running from 2007 to at least 2012. One company faced 649 and the other 37 instances; both are jointly and severally liable for an administrative penalty of 40,000,000 ZAR. As part of the settlement, the Competition Commission (competition authority) agreed to withdraw its case against a sister company.
Cover quotes submitted to let a competitor win are bid rigging – even many small individual jobs add up to heavy penalties.
Bid rigging and cover quotes
- Authority / court
- Competition Tribunal of South Africa (auf Antrag der Competition Commission)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Section 4(1)(b)(i) und (iii) Competition Act 89 of 1998
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 20 Mar 2024
Original amount 40,000,000 ZAR, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Mar 2024.
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 18 Mar 2026 · Direct link
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15 Jan 2024 a dominant Swiss delivery company and a private mail delivery companyWEKO prohibits the market leader's takeover of a private mail delivery company Order
The Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO, Swiss Competition Commission) prohibited a dominant Swiss delivery company from acquiring a private mail delivery company because the concentration would have eliminated effective competition for national addressed bulk letters over 50 grams for business customers and created or strengthened the acquirer's dominant position in further letter, parcel and newspaper delivery markets. WEKO rejected the claimed rescue takeover because another prospective buyer offered a more competitive solution; the procedural costs of CHF 98,000 are borne equally by both parties.
A buyer invoking the rescue of an ailing competitor must show that no more competition-friendly purchaser is available.
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Art. 10 Abs. 2 KG i.V.m. Art. 32 und 33 KG (Zusammenschlusskontrolle)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 19 Jan 2024
- WEKO, Entscheide (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 15 Jan 2026 · Direct link
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17 Aug 2023 two Japanese shipping linesCanada: fines against two Japanese shipping lines over collusion in vehicle shipping €1.33m
The shipping lines coordinated increases in freight rates charged to carmakers for ro-ro vehicle transport to Canada; the second shipping line also rigged bids in a carmaker's tender. The first shipping line is paying 1.5 million CAD, the second 460,000 CAD.
International cartels are prosecuted in several countries one after another – a single infringement triggers proceedings in every jurisdiction affected.
Agreements on freight rates and tenders
- Authority / court
- Competition Bureau Canada / Ontario Superior Court
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Competition Act (Kanada), Conspiracy- und Bid-Rigging-Tatbestände
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea and cooperation
- Published
- 17 Aug 2023
Original amount 1,960,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Aug 2023.
- Competition Bureau Canada, Meldungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 17 Aug 2025 · Direct link
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26 Jun 2023 a German railway groupBundeskartellamt orders German railway group to open up to mobility platforms Order
The Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) found that a railway group abuses its dominant position vis-à-vis digital mobility platforms and, by a cease-and-desist order, required it to remove advertising bans, vertical price requirements and far-reaching discount bans from its contracts, to pay the platforms a fee for booking, payment processing and brokering, and to grant non-discriminatory real-time access to delay and cancellation data. The group appealed; in interim proceedings the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf) largely upheld the enforceability on 8 March 2024 but provisionally suspended the requirement on minimum fee levels.
A dominant supplier with its own sales platform must not hold back competing intermediaries through contract clauses or withheld data.
Obstruction of distribution partners by dominant companies
- Authority / court
- Bundeskartellamt
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- § 32 Abs. 1 GWB; Art. 102 AEUV, § 19 Abs. 1, Abs. 2 Nr. 1 GWB, § 20 Abs. 1a GWB
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 28 Jun 2023
- Bundeskartellamt, Presse (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 26 Jun 2025 · Direct link
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17 Nov 2022 four Singapore warehouse operatorsCCCS: 2.8 million SGD against four warehouse operators for a coordinated FTZ surcharge €1.97m
In 2017 four warehouse operators at a Singapore logistics park coordinated the introduction of an identically named 'FTZ Surcharge' of 6 SGD per freight unit on import cargo instead of setting their prices independently. On 17 November 2022 the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) imposed penalties totalling 2,799,138 SGD: operator A 1,436,378, operator B 542,520, operator C 522,889 and operator D 297,351 SGD, the latter after a leniency discount. The Competition Appeal Board allowed the appeal of operators C and A on 16 July 2025; on 30 June 2026 the High Court, on the authority's appeal, reinstated the finding that the two had infringed the law, but the authority has not stated whether their penalties again apply in full.
Even telling competitors that you intend to introduce a surcharge can be prohibited price coordination, including for firms with a small market share.
No coordination with competitors on surcharges or pricing intentions
- Authority / court
- Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Competition Act 2004, s 34
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- Leniency discount for operator D, which applied during the inspections.
- Published
- 17 Nov 2022
Original amount 2,799,138 SGD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Nov 2022.
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 17 Nov 2024 · Direct link
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29 Sep 2022 seven Greek towage companies and consortiaTowage services in Greek ports: EUR 4.36m for market-sharing and price-fixing €4.36m
According to a 2022 settlement decision, seven towage companies or consortia shared towage services for merchant vessels in the ports of Thessaloniki, Attica and Kavala among themselves and fixed prices (discounts). The Epitropi Antagonismou (Hellenic Competition Commission) imposed fines reduced by 15% totalling EUR 4,360,818.28, including EUR 1,203,324.95, EUR 1,060,950.56 and EUR 498,280.58 on three of the companies; the other four consortia received between EUR 272,349.91 and EUR 510,326.14.
Even in small, local markets, agreements on customer territories and discounts are a hardcore cartel infringement.
Market-sharing and price-fixing between competitors
- Authority / court
- Επιτροπή Ανταγωνισμού (Hellenic Competition Commission)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 1 ν. 3959/2011; Art. 101 AEUV; Vergleichsverfahren nach Art. 29a ν. 3959/2011
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- 15% reduction under the settlement procedure; the companies sought settlement before the rapporteur's report was served.
- Published
- 29 Sep 2022
- Epitropi Antagonismou, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2022) Press release of an authority
- Epitropi Antagonismou, Entscheidungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2022) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 29 Sep 2024 · Direct link