The Bundeskartellamt (or Federal Cartel Office) is Germany's national competition regulator. It was first established in 1958 and comes under the authority of the Federal Ministry of the Economy and Technology. Its headquarters are in the former West German capital, Bonn and its President is Bernhard Heitzer, who has a staff of 300 people. Today it administers competition law in Germany, and is one of the leading national competition authorities in Europe. Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... A competition regulator is a government agency, typically a statutory authority, which regulates competition laws, and may sometimes also regulate consumer protection laws. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with antitrust. ...
The Office of Fair Trading or OFT is a UK statutory body established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforces both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the UKs economic regulator. ...
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bundeskartellamt.de - Offizielle Website des Bundeskartellamts