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Expensive start to school: GVH investigates suspected cartel
On Monday morning, the bell rang across the country, officially starting the 2025-2026 school year. For children, summer vacation is over, and parents are faced not only with logistical challenges...
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GVH: at least 70 out of every 100 forints spent goes to multinationals
Multinational retail chains dominate the Hungarian FMCG market with a gross turnover of 8,400 billion forints, and at least 70 out of every 100 forints spent is spent by multinationals,...
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New products in the Price Monitoring System
The online Price Monitoring System operated by the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has been expanded with 42 new product categories. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2025/8-9....
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GVH: margin reduction reduced prices, OKSZ disputes the effect
According to the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), the margin cap has been effective, as it contributed to lowering the prices of the affected products. Citing data from the online Price...
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The trade association and the competition authority interpret the results of the competition office’s investigations differently
According to the National Trade Association (OKSZ), investigations by the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) also support the need to phase out the margin reduction; however, the competition authority stated that...
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According to the GVH’s investigations, retail is not the culprit in price increases.
It is not the retail trade that is responsible for the rapid price increase of milk, dairy products and eggs experienced at the beginning of 2025, but rather supplier prices...
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GVH: proceedings have been initiated against a company distributing dietary supplements due to suspicion of reseller price fixing
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has initiated competition supervision proceedings against a company distributing vitamins and dietary supplements, GAL SynergyTech Zrt. (GAL), as it has noticed that it has probably...
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GVH: Airbnb may be deceiving Hungarian users
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) suspects that Airbnb is not providing adequate information and may thus mislead Hungarian users, which is why the competition authority has initiated competition supervision proceedings...
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GVH warns of hidden risks of mobile apps
In the digital world, smartphones and applications (apps) have become an integral part of our daily lives. Beyond shopping, we use them for social networking, entertainment, information, work, obtaining services...
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The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has initiated competition supervision proceedings against Ryanair
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has launched competition supervision proceedings against Ryanair, as the authority suspects that the Irish-based discount airline is engaging in unfair commercial practices in several aspects...
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GVH has launched a new investigation into the accommodation booking platform Booking.com
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has initiated competition supervision proceedings against Booking.com B.V. The national competition authority suspects that the leading accommodation booking platform based in the Netherlands provided information...
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Fresh milk sales have turned into losses – GVH graph highlights
A new and previously overlooked issue has come to light in Hungarian retail: the sale of fresh (ESL) milk has now clearly become loss-making. According to an analysis published last...
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These factors influenced prices in the milk and egg markets
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has also concluded two accelerated sector investigations. One in the domestic market of dairy products and one in the domestic market of table eggs. The...
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The prices of household and hygiene products can also be tracked in the Price Watch
The online Price Monitoring System operated by the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), which is exactly two years old today, has been expanded with 42 new product categories. This means that...
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Competition Authority proceedings have been launched against Decathlon’s Hungarian subsidiary
According to the GVH, the sports store chain offers misleading prices, false promotions and misleading stock information. The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has initiated competition supervision proceedings against Tízpróba Magyarország...
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Uber is charging below the official price
Uber returned to Budapest a year ago – and not just any way: they relaunched the service with free test rides and 80 and then 50 percent discounts. Since then,...
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GVH President: The development of Hungarian language models is a matter of national sovereignty
Csaba Balázs Rigó, President of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), and László Palkovics, Government Commissioner responsible for artificial intelligence (AI), met at the GVH headquarters for a professional consultation. During...
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The GVH’s latest knowledge-sharing event was about green claims
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has organized a conference for the seventh time within the framework of the Hungarian Compliance Academy (MCA). The latest event in the series of events...
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Billion-dollar market and fragile credibility – this is how Hungarian influencer marketing is transforming
The domestic market for influencer marketing is showing dynamic growth: according to IAB Hungary, the sector’s advertising spending will amount to HUF 8.1 billion in 2024, which is a 31%...
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Think Calmly! – the GVH helps with information materials
The digital world, including influencers, has an increasing impact on consumers’ everyday lives. The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) is therefore paying special attention to the advertising activities of opinion leaders...
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Csökkentette az élelmiszerárakat az árrésstop és az online Árfigyelő bővítése
2025 áprilisában csökkent az infláció és az élelmiszerárak növekedési üteme is. Havi alapon átlagosan 1,3%-kal kerültek kevesebbek az élelmiszerek, melyekhez a Kormány árrésstop intézkedése mellett a GVH által működtetett online...
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Dark patterns are spreading in e-commerce – and official action against them is also more frequent
Urging, pressuring, hiding costs or “trickling” them – dark patterns are increasingly being used in commerce, and not only in the online space. The competition authority has also condemned companies...
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Corporate mergers at historic high – GVH works with faster procedures and artificial intelligence
A record number of corporate mergers took place in Hungary in 2024, with the combined revenue of the companies involved exceeding HUF 1,000 billion, announced Csaba Rigó, President of the...
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Blacklisting for painting green?
Greenwashing (Hungarian: greenwashing) is the practice of presenting a business policy or a specific product as more environmentally friendly than it actually is. According to domestic experts, a change in...
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Competition Authority guidance for the fashion and textile industry on sustainability and eco-labelling
The international network of consumer protection authorities around the world has issued an open letter of advice to the fashion and textile industry players to promote the transparency of “sustainability...
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GVH: Leading economists from the world’s competition authorities will meet in Hungary in April
Between April 23-25, the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) and the International Competition Network (ICN) will organize a professional meeting of leading economists in Hungary, which will be attended by 59...
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Here is the announcement: the GVH is investigating the dairy products and egg markets as well
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has launched accelerated sector investigations in the domestic market of milk and dairy products and eggs, announced Csaba Balázs Rigó, President of the GVH, at...
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The Economic Committee of the Parliament has accepted the 2024 report of the Hungarian Competition Authority
The Economic Committee of the Parliament has adopted the report of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) on its activities in 2024 and its experiences in applying the Competition Act without...
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GVH: Answear clothing online store will operate more transparently
The Competition Council of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) concluded its proceedings by accepting the commitments of the Polish company operating the Answear clothing online store, and the store will...
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GVH: supporting the SME sector is a good direction in the new artificial intelligence strategy
The renewal of the artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is in line with the proposals of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) on several points, and supporting the SME sector is a...
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