The Dutch competition authority, the Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM), is supporting the Romanian competition authority Consiliul Concurenței România in investigating possible restrictive agreements in the sports fashion sector. As part of the investigation, searches were carried out at headquarters in the Netherlands and Romania, according to a document from the Consiliul Concurenței România.
In the Netherlands, the headquarters of Nike European Operations Netherlands BV, the supplier of Nike products, was raided. In Romania, the searches affected the headquarters of Sport Time Trad SRL and Sport Vision Trading SRL.
The Consiliul Concurenței România suspects that the supplier of Nike products has entered into agreements with Sport Time Trade SRL, the distributor of the brand’s products, to limit the clientele to which the products can be sold, according to the document.
“Under certain circumstances, each distributor must determine their own business strategy. “The suppliers cannot determine which customers supply their buyers,” said the Romanian competition authority.
According to the competition authorities, the searches by the Consiliul Concurenței România with the support of the ACM represent an important step in the procedures for investigating potentially restrictive behavior.
National competition authorities regularly work together to detect and prevent violations of competition rules. Authorities can request support from each other within the European Union.
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