When an abusive conduct of dominant undertakings is found, this will often require competition authorities, in addition to sanctions and/or cease and desist orders, or as an alternative way of case resolution, to impose remedies or accept commitments by the dominant undertakings. The aim is to effectively stop the abusive conduct, and to create conditions that allow to restore or enable competition. To avoid further damage to the markets in question, such remedies and commitments need to be timely, effective and proportionate.
In December 2022, the OECD Global Forum on Competition held a roundtable to revisit the options available to competition authorities in designing such remedies and commitments, and discussed practical insights and experiences, in particular:
- What criteria guide competition authorities when using remedies and commitments in addition or as an alternative to sanctions?
- Which cases are suitable for structural remedies, and in which cases are behavioural remedies more adequate?
- Which lessons can be drawn from the monitoring of the compliance with remedies and commitments that were imposed or accepted? Can sector regulators assist competition authorities in this task?
- What are insights gained from an ex-post evaluation of previously applied remedies and commitments?
This page contains all related documentation.
The key findings of the discusion can be accessed here, a detailed summary here and below, all session information and materials including contributions from participating delegations and speakers.
