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Abstract

With the development of the digital market, market conditions and consumers’ behaviour have changed drastically over the past decade. The use of the Internet as a decisive medium before making any purchase decision is increasing.

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Fußnoten
1
DPC 2011/3, Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 373 para 12 citing S. Van Baal and K. Hudetz, Das Multi-Channel-Verhalten der Konsumenten, Institut für Handelsforschung an der Universität zu Köln, 2008.
 
2
Market Study ‘Marché Suisse du Commerce en Ligne et à distance 2016’ made by VSV, GFK Switzerland and Media Focus Schweiz GmbH, available at https://​www.​vsv-versandhandel.​ch/​fr/​facts/​la-suisse-en-chiffres/​. Accessed on 4 July 2017.
 
3
R. Wölfle and U. Leimstoll, E-Commerce Report Schweiz 2017, Management summary p. 1.
 
4
DPC/RPW 2017/1 Annual Report 2016 of the Competition Commission, p. 70.
 
5
The popular initiative system enables, in Switzerland, citizens to seek a decision on an amendment to the Constitution.
 
6
S. Hirsbrunner, Mit kartellrechtlichen Mitteln faire Preise erzwingen, SJZ 113/2017 p. 329.
 
7
Federal popular initiative available at https://​www.​admin.​ch/​ch/​f/​pore/​vi/​vis469.​html, see also DPC/RPW 2017/1 Annual Report 2016 of the Competition Commission, p. 69.
 
8
RS 251.4 available on the website www.​admin.​ch.
 
9
Article 1 of the Cartel Act.
 
10
V. Martenet and P. Tercier, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence, (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 1 Cartel Act N 16, citing DPC 2010/3, France Telecom/Sunrise, p. 493 para 43, 359 and 412.
 
11
V. Martenet and A. Heinemann, Droit de la Concurrence, Quid iuris ? Band/Nr. 6, 2012, p. 37.
 
12
V. Martenet and P. Tercier, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence, (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 1 Cartel Act para 22.
 
13
Martenet and P. Tercier, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence, (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 1 Cartel Act para 13.
 
14
Article 5 Cartel Act.
 
15
Article 7 Cartel Act.
 
16
Articles 9 and 10 Cartel Act.
 
17
Article 6 Cartel Act.
 
18
Notice on the treatment of Vertical Restraints dated 28 June 2010, available in French and German at https://​www.​weko.​admin.​ch/​weko/​fr/​home/​documentation/​communications---notes-explicatives.​html.
 
19
Swiss Federal Case law ATF 137 II 199, JdT 2011 I. p. 157, 166 pt 4.3.1.
 
20
Swiss Federal Case law ATF 137 II 199, JdT 2011 I. p. 157, 166 pt 4.3.1.
 
21
Articles 4 and 5 para 1 Cartel Act.
 
22
Articles 5 paras. 3 and 4 Cartel Act.
 
23
Article 5 para 3 Cartel Act.
 
24
Article 5 para 4 Cartel Act and Article 10 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
25
Swiss Federal Case law 2C_180/2014 dated 28 June 2016, Gaba/WEKO. In this ruling, the Federal Tribunal considered that the vertical agreements on territories are considered as hardcore cartels that presumably lead to the elimination as well as significant restriction of effective competition.
 
26
M. Amstutz, B. Carron and M. Reinert, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence, (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 5 Cartel Act para 2.
 
27
Articles 10 and 12 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
28
Article 13 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints. F. Hoffet, M. Dietrich and M. Thomann, Vertical Agreements, in Getting the Deal through, available on: https://​gettingthedealth​rough.​com/​area/​41/​jurisdiction/​29/​vertical-agreements-switzerland/​. Accessed July 18, 2017.
 
29
Notice on SME’s, section 3 para. 1 let. a and b.
 
30
Article 5 para 1 and 2 Cartel Act; Swiss Federal Case law 2C_180/2014 dated June 28, 2016, Gaba/WEKO, see also Article 16 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
31
Article 5 para 2 Cartel Act.
 
32
M. Amstutz, B. Carron and M. Reinert, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence, (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 5 para 255.
 
33
Article 5 para 2 Cartel Act.
 
34
Article 8 Cartel Act.
 
35
V. Martenet and A. Heinemann, Droit de la concurrence, quid iuris? Band/Nr. 6, 2012, p. 95.
 
36
Article 10 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
37
Article 12 para 2 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
38
Article 16 para 4 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
39
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 374 paras 16 ff.
 
40
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 386 para 111.
 
41
Article 3 of the Notice of Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
42
Article 2 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints, see also the Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints, para 21.
 
43
Article 5 para 4 Cartel Act.
 
44
M. Amstutz, B. Carron and M. Reinert, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence, (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 5 para 626.
 
45
Article 5 para 1 Cartel Act.
 
46
DPC/PRW2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 382 paras 76 ff.
 
47
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints, para 9 bullet point 4. Available on https://​www.​weko.​admin.​ch/​weko/​fr/​home/​documentation/​communications---notes-explicatives.​html.
 
48
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints, paras 18 ff, citing DPC/RPW 2011/3, Behinderung des Online-Handels, 381, p. 381 para 69 and DPC 2014/1 Kosmetikprodukte (Dermalogica) 195, p. 198 para 140.
 
49
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints, para 19, citing DPC/RPW 2011/3, Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 381, para 71 and DPC/RPW 2014/1 Kosmetikprodukte (Dermalogica) p. 198, para 140, see also DPC 2014/2, Jura, p. 413, paras 62 ff.
 
50
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints para 20, citing DPC/RPW 2011/3, Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 381, para 74 and DPC 2014/1 Kosmetikprodukte (Dermalogica) p. 198 para 142, see also DPC 2014/2, Jura, p. 413, para 62.
 
51
J. Xoudis, Chroniques, jurisprudences européennes et étrangères, Concurrences N°2-2016 p. 235.
 
52
J. Xoudis, Chroniques, jurisprudences européennes et étrangères, Concurrences N°2-2016 p. 235.
 
53
DPC/RPW 2017/1 Annual Report 2016 of the Competition Commission, p. 62.
 
54
Article 4 para 1 and Article 12 para b (iii) of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
55
Article 4 para 2 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
56
V. Jäggi, La distribution sélective et le développement du réseau, liberté de contracter ou obligation d’agrément, SJ 2013 II p. 1.
 
57
V. Jäggi, La distribution sélective et le développement du réseau, liberté de contracter ou obligation d’agrément, SJ 2013 II p. 4, see also DPC/RPW 2010/1, Gaba, p. 84 para 147.
 
58
Article 14 of the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints.
 
59
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints para 16.
 
60
Competition Commission Explanatory statements, para 23.
 
61
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints, para 23. Cf. also the Guidelines on Vertical restraints, para 56 applicable by analogy in Switzerland available at http://​eur-lex.​europa.​eu/​legal-content/​FR/​TXT/​?​uri=​celex:​52010SC0411.
 
62
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints para 23. Cf. also the Guidelines on Vertical restraints para 56, applicable by analogy in Switzerland available at http://​eur-lex.​europa.​eu/​legal-content/​FR/​TXT/​?​uri=​celex:​52010SC0411.
 
63
C. Bovet and A. Alberini, recent developments in Swiss Competition law, SZW 2015 S 42, para 6, citing DPC/RPW 2014/2, Jura, p. 416 para 86.
 
64
M. Amstutz, B. Carron and M. Reinert, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 5 Cartel Act N 303.
 
65
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 391 para 150.
 
66
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 392 para 153.
 
67
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 393 para 162.
 
68
DPC/RPW 2011/3, Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 395 para 189, see also the Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints para 24.
 
69
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints, para 24.
 
70
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 395 para 189.
 
71
Explanatory Statement on the Notice on the Treatment of Vertical Restraints para 24, citing DPC/RPW 2011/3, Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 395 para 189.
 
72
DPC/RPW 2011/33, Behinderung der Online-Handels, p. 395 para 189.
 
73
DPC/RPW 2011/33, Behinderung der Online-Handels, p. 395 para 189.
 
74
M. Amstutz, B. Carron and M. Reinert, in Commentaire romand, droit de la concurrence (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013,ad. Article 5 Cartel Act para 636.
 
75
DPC/RPW 2016/1 Online-Buchungsplattformen für Hotels, p. 121 para 419.
 
76
Article 7 para 2 Cartel Act.
 
77
E. Clerc, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier), 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 7 I para 99.
 
78
DPC/RPW 2016/1 Online-Buchungsplattformen für Hotels, p. 92 para 188.
 
79
M. Blatter, Digitalisierung – Herausforderung für die Wettbewerbspolitik, Sic ! 2016 p. 380.
 
80
J. Xoudis, Chroniques, jurisprudences européennes et étrangères, Concurrences N°2-2016 p. 235.
 
81
DPC/RPW 2016/1 Online-Buchungsplattformen für Hotels, p. 120 paras 412 ff.
 
82
Article 11 para 3 of the Ordinance on the Control of Concentrations, also applicable to the restrictions to competition and to the abuse of dominant position.
 
83
Article 11 para 3 of the Swiss Ordinance on the Control of Concentrations RS 251.4.
 
84
Decision of the Competition Commission of 27 May 2013: marché du livre écrit en français, p. 103 para 464 and and p. 115 para 520.
 
85
Decision of the Competition Commission of 27 May 2013: marché du livre écrit en français, p. 110 para 493.
 
86
Decision of the Competition Commission of 27 May 2013: marché du livre écrit en français, p. 99 para 445.
 
87
E. Clerc and P. Këllezi, in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013, ad. Article 4 para 2 Cartel Act, N 108.
 
88
Decision of the Competition Commission 27.05.2013, marché du livre écrit en français, p. 118 para 533.
 
89
DPC 2011/3, Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 387 paras. 114 and ff.
 
90
DPC 2011/33, Behinderung der Online-Handels, p. 379 para 55 ff, see also DPC 2014/1 Kosmetikprodukte (Dermalogica) p. 195 para 113.
 
91
Decision of the Competition Commission 27.05.2013, marché du livre écrit en français, p. 105 para 476.
 
92
Decision of the Competition Commission 27.05.2013, marché du livre écrit en français, p. 119 para 536.
 
93
DPC/RPW 2016/1, Online-Buchungsplattformen für Hotels, p. 93 Para. 194.
 
94
M. Blatter, Digitalisierung – Herausforderung für die Wettbewerbspolitik, Sic ! 2016 p. 380.
 
95
DPC/RPW 2016/1, Online-Buchungsplattformen für Hotels, p. 100 para 253.
 
96
A. Wijesundera and D. Mamane, Competition and antitrust in the digital age, 30 March 2017, Ilo on Demand, Competition & Antitrust – Switzerland.
 
97
J-M. Reymond in Commentaire Romand, droit de la concurrence (ed. V. Martenet, C. Bovet and P. Tercier) 2nd edition, 2013,ad. Rem. Article 12ss Cartel Act N 38.
 
98
Article 12 Cartel Act.
 
99
Article 15 para 1 Cartel Act.
 
100
R. Jacobs and J. A. Bürgi, G. Giger, Should private enforcement of antitrust law be encouraged, and if so, by what measures? National Report Switzerland, 2006 available at http://​www.​asas-concurrence.​ch/​pub/​asas_​04_​016a.​pub.​pdf.
 
101
R. Jacobs, J. A. Bürgi and G. Giger, Should private enforcement of antitrust law be encouraged, and if so, by what measures? National Report Switzerland, available at http://​www.​asas-concurrence.​ch/​pub/​asas_​04_​016a.​pub.​pdf.
 
102
Article 49a Cartel Act.
 
103
RS 251.5.
 
104
Articles 5 and 6 of the Ordinance.
 
105
Article 50 Cartel Act.
 
106
L. Moreillon, Commentaire Romand, Droit de la concurrence, ad. Article 50 Cartel Act N9.
 
107
Article 29 Cartel Act.
 
108
P. Këllezi, Les accords amiables conclus avec les autorités de la concurrence et leurs implications pour les entreprises in Développement récents en droit commercial III, 2014, p. 107.
 
109
M. Strebel, C. Pétermann and R. Bucher, Overview of the law and enforcement regime relating to Cartels in Global Legal Insights – Cartels, 5th ed. 2017, London.
 
110
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 396 para 189 (B) (1).
 
111
DPC/RPW 2011/3 Behinderung des Online-Handels, p. 396 para 189 (B) (3).
 
112
DPC/RPW 2017/1 Annual Report 2016 of the Competition Commission, p. 69.
 
Metadaten
Titel
Switzerland
verfasst von
Annemarie Streuli
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71419-6_11