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GVH organises international workshop on green marketing messages
On 24 January, the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) will hold an online workshop in English to discuss the results of its investigation into green marketing messages with representatives of fo...
2024. Jan. 17.
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The Curia of Hungary has settled a protracted legal interpretation dispute and clarified, in line...
Budapest, 21 June 2023 - In its latest resolution for the uniformity of the law, the Curia confirmed the correctness of the position of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) regarding competiti...
2023. Jun. 22.
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Vivid international discussions at the GVH’s food inflation workshop
There was a remarkable interest from Member States at the GVH’s international workshop on food inflation. The online event was attended by more than 50 experts representing competition authorities ...
2023. Jun. 14.
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The OECD winter "competition week" has begun
The winter session of the OECD Competition Division has begun with the participation of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH). The GVH and the OECD have been cooperating very actively for almos...
2022. Nov. 29.
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Successful year for the OECD-GVH Competition Law Training Centre
Over the past years, the Hungarian Competition Authority has succeeded in becoming a regional key player in the exchange of experience in competition law, said the Chair of the OECD National Counci...
2022. Nov. 16.
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Key role of competition authorities in times of crisis: team training held by the GVH and the OEC...
The Hungarian Competition Authority and the OECD Regional Centre for Competition are holding a two-day training course to prepare Hungarian competition professionals to deal with the crisis-hit and...
2022. Nov. 08.
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Csaba Balázs Rigó: Getting green issues right
We have to protect the Hungarian people and increase their consumer awareness regarding the so-called ‘greenwashing’ phenomenon. As to merchants, we still have to offer guidance and information abo...
2022. Nov. 08.
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Csaba Balázs Rigó: the GVH protects children as a priority
The President of the Hungarian Competition Authority presented the practice of the competition authority's protection of children at a professional conference of the Pest County Government Office i...
2022. Oct. 19.
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GVH’s experts protect the interests of Hungarian consumers
The Hungarian Competition Authority and the OECD Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest are holding a two-day training course to prepare Hungarian competition professionals to deal with the un...
2022. Oct. 21.
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Press releases
Cooperation agreement between the GVH and the Azerbaijani competition authority
Budapest, 27 March 2024 - The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) and the State Service for Antimonopoly and Consumer Market Control under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan ha...
2024. Mar. 27.
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Competition Heads from 15 countries meet in Budapest
Hungary and the GVH are a bridge between EU economies and emerging economies.
Budapest, 27 March 2024 - At this year's first event of the joint Regional Centre for Competition (RRC) in Budapest, or...
2024. Mar. 27.
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GVH takes action: competition supervision proceeding launched against Temu
The online marketplace might be using non-existent discounts, psychological pressure and misleading green messages
Budapest, 13 March 2024 - The Hungarian Competition Authority (Gazdasági Versenyhi...
2024. Mar. 13.
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Temu in the GVH’s crosshairs
The Hungarian Competition Authority investigates complaints about intensive trading practices in Chinese online marketplace
Budapest, 27 February 2024 - The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) is...
2024. Feb. 27.
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Cartelist road salter companies “slipped”, fined 400 million
Budapest, 1 February 2024 - The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has closed another major competition supervision procedure against bid-rigging cartel, finding that between 2011 and 2014 seven...
2024. Feb. 01.
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GVH: Increasing competition in the credit market
Budapest, 30 January 2024 - The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) is advocating of banks' voluntary commitments to increase lending competition. The GVH welcomes the steady increase in competit...
2024. Jan. 30.
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GVH's analysis of "green" marketing messages are in the international focus
Budapest, 25 January 2024 - The findings of the market analysis of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), in which the authority's case handlers examined the environmental advertising, are grou...
2024. Jan. 25.
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The Turkic States Competition Council was established in Istanbul
The Hungarian Competition Authority joins competition cooperation as an observer
Budapest, 23 January 2024 - The Turkic States Competition Council has been established, to which the Hungarian Compe...
2024. Jan. 23.
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Not everything green is what it claims to be
The GVH proposes a multi-level, state-regulated sustainability labelling system
Budapest, 11 January 2024 - In many cases, green advertising messages are unclear and confusing, and a significant nu...
2024. Jan. 11.
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GVH launches market analysis on the impact of artificial intelligence
The Hungarian Competition Authority - GVH explores the effects of technology on market competition and consumer behaviour
Budapest, 4 January 2024 - The Hungarian Competition Authority is conductin...
2024. Jan. 04.
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The Hungarian Competition Authority puts TikTok on the right track to protect children
Another technology giant has been successfully challenged by the Hungarian Competition Authority.
30 November 2023, Budapest – The commitment imposed on TikTok by the Hungarian Competition Authorit...
2023. Nov. 30.
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Cooperation agreement between GVH and the Montenegrin competition authority
Budapest, 20 November 2023 - The Western Balkan country's competition authority, the Montenegrin Agency for the Protection of Competition (APC), and the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) have s...
2023. Nov. 20.
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