A restrictive arrangement will be approved if it does not cause substantial damage to competition or prevents it

A gas products marketer, which sells products to several distributors, demanded that a store owner, with whom it had worked for 15 years, not advertise products at a price lower than the price it set.  After the store owner objected to the demand, contending it is a forbidden restrictive arrangement, the distributor stopped supplying its […]

An indictment was filed against 17 defendants for committing the offenses of a restrictive arrangement, receiving something by fraud, and money laundering, although 50 were originally involved in the case. The prosecution decided who to prosecute based on parameters reflecting the severity of the acts. The Court held that the criteria subject to which the […]

A motion to certify a class action was filed against supermarket chains, alleging they were parties to restrictive arrangements intended to harm competition and raise prices.  The motion relied solely on an indictment filed by the Israeli Competition Authority. The Court summarily dismissed the motion to certify the class action.  Summary dismissal of a claim […]

A collector of empty beverage bottles for recycling contended that a collection corporation, which is a monopoly in its field, owed it payment for the difference in bonuses due to it, after discriminating it in comparison to other beverage bottle collectors from among the marketing chains. The Court held that the collection corporation did not […]