Author: Ghazale Mandegarian-Fricke
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CHECK24: another warning shot on parity clauses for platform businesses
Parity clauses remain firmly on the German competition authority’s radar, as the recent CHECK24 case illustrates. More importantly, the authority’s concerns are not limited to classic contractual clauses. They also extend to ranking, visibility and other commercial tools capable of producing similar effects. What happened The German Federal Cartel Office closed its investigation into CHECK24…