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COVID-19: Application of competition rules and competition enforcement in crisis

3/22/2020

 

Updated on 5 June

On account of the COVID-19, consumers and businesses are confronted with unprecedented challenges. In response to these challenges, the Icelandic Competition Authority (ICA) has opened an information center where the following issues are addressed.

Exemptions from the ban to cooperate

Hotline to report excessive pricing of goods and services

Competition policy: What can we learn from others and how can we use the experience from the banking collapse in 2008 to solve the challenges ahead?

What are the ICA´s focus points as regards merger reviews under these circumstances?

How to prepare state-aid

The emphasis of competition authorities around us

How are the competition authorities around us changing their day-to-day operations?

Order of priorities and revaluation of existing cases

Changes of the ICA´s day-to-day operations (contingency)

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