A Special Professional Authority of Cartel Supervision in Hungary: The Cartel Committee
A Special Professional Authority of Cartel Supervision in Hungary: The Cartel Committee

Summary/Abstract: The Hungarian Cartel Act of 1930 regulated the cartel supervisory authorities, with the primary task of making sure that the operations of cartels were on the right path in order to protect public interests and public well-being. Cartels should provide customers with public needs goods at an affordable price. The government of Hungary wished to ensure this by creating cartel supervisory authorities in cartel matters. Amongst the specialized cartel supervisory authorities, one must emphasize the Cartel Committee, with its primary task of establishing whether or not the agreements formed by cooperating companies contain cartel-like competition-limiting clauses. In my essay, I wish to describe the establishment, the organisation and the practices of the Hungarian Cartel Committee, based on the one of the most important archival sources related to the bakery cartel.

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