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Administrative endorsements of the Authority Antitrust to the companies Medmar Navi and Alilauro
the first is fined for an amount of 70.000 euros, the second one for 100,000 euros
February 27, 2012
The Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) has comminato administrative endorsements to the companies of navigation Medmar Navi Spa and Alilauro Spa that operate services of marine transport with the islands of the Gulf of Naples. The sanzionatori provisions are emitted as a result of procedures started on signalling of Active Generation, national association that work in defense of the citizen-consumers.
The investigation of the Authority Antitrust is centralized on the presumed penalization operated from the two companies in confronts of the consumers residents in the islands of of the Campania archipelago. In particular - it has explained the AGCM - Medmar and Alilauro do not allow they, also in the period of greater tourist inflow (from April to October of every year), to reserve and to acquire tickets to rate in advance facilitated, being they only allowed the purchase in the hour precedence the departure of the interest race. Various, on the websites of the companies the purchase of tickets to the ordinary price is possible that turns out about three times advanced to that junior clerk to the residents
The AGCM has irrogato is to Medmar Ships that to Alilauro a pecuniary administrative endorsement of 70.000 euros. To the second company an endorsement of 30.000 euros is comminata also inflicted for the particular configuration of the system of reservation on-line of Alilauro, that it adds the straight amount "of reservation", pairs to three euros, to conclusion of the process of purchase of the ticket.
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