(Finance) – The Competition and Market Guarantor Authority has started an investigation against the company Robert Bosch GmbH pto check the hypothesis of abuse of a dominant position on the European market of the systems propulsion for electric bicycles.
In particular – explains the note – as hypothesized in the opening provision, Bosch would not have allowed electrical and digital interoperability between its propulsion systems and the ABS for electric bicycles produced by Blubrake SpA, apparently without any valid justification.
According to the Authority, such conduct could exclude Bosch’s only competitor in the European market for ABS for electric bicyclesdeveloping, and thus negatively impact competition.
In recent days the officials of the Authority participated in the inspectionsconducted in the foreign offices of Bosch and other entities deemed to be in possession of useful elements for the investigation, with the assistance of officials of the German and Dutch Competition Authorities; were also carried out inspections at offices in Italy, with the help of the Special Antitrust Unit of the Guardia di Finanza.