Inadvertent Collusion in E-Commerce: EU’s Highest Court Confirms that Automated Messages Can Put Recipients on the Hook for a Price-Fixing Cartel…

From AntitrustConnect Blog by Bill Batchelor and Grant Murray, Baker & McKenzie
Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania.  An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant discounts would be capped at 3 per cent.  That message appeared in part of the system relating to “information messages”. The Court of Justice found that…

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Kevin Coates, 'Inadvertent Collusion in E-Commerce: EU’s Highest Court Confirms that Automated Messages Can Put Recipients on the Hook for a Price-Fixing Cartel…' (21st Century Competition, 17 February 2016) <https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2016/02/inadvertent-collusion-in-e-commerce-eus-highest-court-confirms-that-automated-messages-can-put-recipients-on-the-hook-for-a-price-fixing-cartel/> accessed 9 April 2026.

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Kevin Coates. "Inadvertent Collusion in E-Commerce: EU’s Highest Court Confirms that Automated Messages Can Put Recipients on the Hook for a Price-Fixing Cartel…." 21st Century Competition, 17 February 2016. https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2016/02/inadvertent-collusion-in-e-commerce-eus-highest-court-confirms-that-automated-messages-can-put-recipients-on-the-hook-for-a-price-fixing-cartel/.

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@misc{kevin-coates2016, author = {Kevin Coates}, title = {{Inadvertent Collusion in E-Commerce: EU’s Highest Court Confirms that Automated Messages Can Put Recipients on the Hook for a Price-Fixing Cartel…}}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2016/02/inadvertent-collusion-in-e-commerce-eus-highest-court-confirms-that-automated-messages-can-put-recipients-on-the-hook-for-a-price-fixing-cartel/}, note = {21st Century Competition} }
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