On the basis of specific requests for advice, the key topics of information exchange, purchasing pools, association/cooperation, commercial agency relationships, vertical hardcore restraints and notification requirements in the context of merger control are presented from the perspective of the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) and critically explained by antitrust lawyers.
Mario Strebel is the author of the chapter on vertical hardcore restraints in the sense of art. 5 para. 4 of the Swiss Cartel Act (CartA) in the book Swiss Competition Law in Practice – explained consultations of the COMCO-Secretariat (in German), edited by Michael Tschudin.