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The FCO 2025/26 Review: What's Next for German Antitrust Enforcement | JD Supra
Germany's Federal Cartel Office published its 2025/26 Annual Report, signalling sustained enforcement focus on digital markets (Section 19a GWB + EU DMA), energy/fuel price monitoring, and food retail concentration, with proceedings becoming more data-intensive and technology-driven.
◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway
If you're building platform, marketplace or cloud infrastructure in Germany or the EU, the FCO is now moving enforcement upstream: they're targeting data access, AI model dependencies and marketplace terms before market dominance cements—Section 19a lets them act faster and earlier than traditional abuse cases. Call your legal team; you may already be on their radar if you control inputs other startups need.
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