Did you miss the Swedish Competition Authority’s recent report on Sport and Competition Law? The author of the report, Docent Johan Lindholm at the Department of Law at Umeå University, emphasises among other things that the operators who carry on commercial activities should carefully consider whether the model that they use complies with the demands […]

The Swedish Competition Authority is the supervisory body for public procurement in Sweden. It offers extensive online resources that include the fundamental principles for public procurement and common features of public procurement.

In a recent article titled “Interactive Guidance and Other Outreach Efforts by the Swedish Competition Authority,” the Swedish Competition Authority outlines its outreach efforts within procurement and competition law. The article focuses on the interactive guidance for companies wishing to collaborate in procurement.

The Swedish Competition Authority has a specific grant for funding research on competition issues, how markets work and on public procurement. Read about this year’s eight new research projects here.

On 12 April 2013, the Swedish Market Court (the Market Court) ordered the Swedish telecom operator Telia Sonera Sverige AB (Telia Sonera) to pay an administrative fine amounting to SEK 35 000 000 (approximately € 4 000 000) for having abused its dominant position in the broadband market, ADSL, through a margin squeeze. In doing […]

On 8 March 2013, the results of the Inquiry entitled “Enhanced Effectiveness of Competition Law Enforcement” were presented to the Swedish Government. This follows the launch by the Swedish Government of an inquiry into certain aspects of the Swedish legislation governing the enforcement powers of the Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) on 26 April 2012. The […]

The Swedish Market Court (the Court) has annulled on 18 December 2012 the Swedish Competition Authority’s (SCA) interim order prohibiting the Swedish ice hockey league association, Svenska Hockeyligan AB (Hockeyligan), from boycotting players from North America’s National Hockey League (NHL). The Court considered that Hockeyligan’s decision to prohibit its member clubs from entering into short-term […]

On 20 December 2012, the Swedish Market Court (the court) adopted a decision stating that the Swedish Automobile Sports Federation (the Federation) cannot apply its loyalty rules in the future. In May 2011, the SCA issued a decision ordering the Federation to change its loyalty rules. The rules contained a total ban on participating in […]

On 20 September 2012 the Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) made an interim order prohibiting Sweden’s elite ice hockey league from boycotting players from North America’s National Hockey League (NHL). The interim order applies pending the SCA’s investigation of the conduct.  **************************************************************************************** The 2012/2013 NHL season, which was due to start on 11 October 2012, is […]

The Stockholm City Court has ordered Telia Sonera to pay a fine of SEK 144 million (15 million euro) for margin squeeze in the Swedish broadband market ADSL, in a case brought by the Swedish Competition Authority. The verdict on 2 December 2011 follows the preliminary ruling on the case by the European Court of […]