Draft:Price Supervisor


The Swiss Price Supervisor (German: Preisüberwacher, French: Surveillant des prix), colloquially known as the price watchdog[1], is an office of the federal government which supervises prices and has the power to force firms in concentrated markets to adjust their prices (downwards).

The office of the price supervisor was established as a consequence of a popular initiative in 1982[2].

The role of the Swiss price supervisor is a kind of antitrust regulation, and has few comparables around the world. China’s Price Law may be considered a similar piece of antitrust regulation[3].

References edit

  1. ^ "Price watchdog". SWI swissinfo.ch. 2024-02-26. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  2. ^ "Art. 96 para. 2 lit. a FC". Onlinekommentar.ch. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  3. ^ Tianshu, Zhao (2017-03-01). "Reconstructing the power of price supervision and inspection in the sense of competition law: from the perspective of the Swiss Price Regulation Act". China-EU Law Journal. 5 (3): 197–207. doi:10.1007/s12689-015-0060-5. ISSN 1868-5161. S2CID 255795312.

External Links edit

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