20 minutes: Espace Media files a complaint
Law: The Bern-based Espace Media Groupe (EM) is challenging the Competition Commission’s decision, issued at the end of January, by filing an appeal with the Appeals Commission for Competition Matters
Law The Bern-based Espace Media Groupe (EM) is lodging an appeal with the Competition Appeals Commission against the Competition Commission's (ComCo) decision at the end of January that it may not acquire a stake in 20 Minuten. EM wanted to acquire 17.5 percent of the commuter newspaper via its subsidiary Berner Zeitung AG. EM accuses the Competition Commission of incomplete investigation of the facts and violation of the right to be heard and of antitrust regulations. It also criticizes the way in which the ComCo has defined the relevant market. The authority had misjudged the disciplining of the regional market by the national advertising market.
