CJEU ‘humiliates’ Hungarians with Spar ruling – GVH head
A recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in favour of supermarket chain Spar "humiliated" Hungarians and showed the court put profit ahead of affordable staples, Csaba Balazs Rigo, the head of the Competition Office (GVH), said in an interview with daily Magyar Nemzet published on Tuesday.
In its ruling, issued earlier in September, the CJEU said that price caps Hungary’s government earlier mandated for staples such as sugar, flour, cooking oil, pork and milk, to keep inflation down “undermined fair competition” and were contrary to EU law. The ruling was made after Spar Magyarorszag contested a fine for violating rules on inventory levels for the affected products.
Rigo told Magyar Nemzet that a follow-up probe GVH had launched to determine whether Spar Magyarorszag had complied with voluntary commitments to expand its local supplier base was unrelated to the CJEU ruling.
