{"id":39663,"date":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/case\/setterwalls-has-successfully-represented-stromstads-badanstalt-in-the-market-court\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:44:57","slug":"setterwalls-has-successfully-represented-stromstads-badanstalt-in-the-market-court","status":"publish","type":"assignments","link":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/case\/setterwalls-has-successfully-represented-stromstads-badanstalt-in-the-market-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Setterwalls has successfully represented Str\u00f6mstads Badanstalt in the Market Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Str\u00f6mstads Badanstalt may continue its fitness and spa activities. Setterwalls has represented the municipal company Str\u00f6mstads Badanstalt in a case against the Competition Authority concerning a municipal operator\u2019s right to compete with private operators. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to its bath,sten the company operates a gym and spa. The Market Court, which is the highest court for this type of case, considered, contrary to the Competition Authority\u2019s opinion, that the Competition Authority\u2019s investigation did not show that the presence of Str\u00f6mstads Badanstalts\u2019 gym operations on the market meant that competition was distorted, restricted or is likely to be restricted or distorted. The case is important as it gives guidance on the Competition Authority\u2019s burden of proof and it shows above all that in those cases where there are examples of effective competition and the counterparty can produce such evidence \u2013 in this case there were examples of competing, successful gyms and applications for new establishments \u2013 it becomes difficult for the Competition Authority to gain success against a municipal company\u2019s sales operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Str\u00f6mstads Badanstalt may continue its fitness and spa activities. Setterwalls has represented the municipal company Str\u00f6mstads Badanstalt in a case against the Competition Authority concerning a municipal operator\u2019s right to compete with private operators. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to its bath,sten the company operates a gym and spa. The Market Court, which is the highest court for this type of case, considered, contrary to the Competition Authority\u2019s opinion, that the Competition Authority\u2019s investigation did not show that the presence of Str\u00f6mstads Badanstalts\u2019 gym operations on the market meant that competition was distorted, restricted or is likely to be restricted or distorted. The case is important as it gives guidance on the Competition Authority\u2019s burden of proof and it shows above all that in those cases where there are examples of effective competition and the counterparty can produce such evidence \u2013 in this case there were examples of competing, successful gyms and applications for new establishments \u2013 it becomes difficult for the Competition Authority to gain success against a municipal company\u2019s sales operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34030,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"class_list":["post-39663","assignments","type-assignments","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/assignments\/39663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/assignments"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/assignments"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}