Aci, Automobile Club d’Italia, is ended up in the antitrust sights. In fact, the Authority The Competition and Market Guarantor has started an investigation to ascertain a alleged abuse of a dominant position in the market for the organization of non-competitive automotive events.
OBSTACLES TO COMPETITION
By entering more in detail, according to the Antitrust, the Automobile Club of Italy-Aci, Aci Sport S.p.A. and Club Aci Storico would have adopted behaviors to hinder or prevent sports promotion bodies, amateur sports associations and car clubs from organizing non-competitive events and demonstrations with the aim of expanding their position in this market and increase the number of its affiliates/members.
The Authority Competition and Market Guarantor says that the strategy used by Aci “would consist of sending reports to the bodies responsible for controls such as Prefectures, Police Headquarters and/or Authorities”. municipal authorities, close to the start of the recreational-amateur events, to communicate that these events would not have been subjected to the prior opinion of the ACI, which was not foreseen by the relevant legislation and that they would have taken place in non-compliance with the regulations. with the technical-sporting regulations.”
This strategy has been going on for many years. In fact, the Authority adds that "this undue use of its regulatory and coordination powers would have concerned numerous amateur motorsport events organized in various Italian regions, at least starting from 2016, thus altering the market dynamics”.
With the start of the investigation, the officials of the Authority they carried out inspections at the offices of the Automobile Club d’Italia-Aci, Aci Sport S.p.A. and Club Aci Storico, with the help of the Special Antitrust Unit of the Guardia di Finanza. The investigation began following a series of reports received by the Antitrust offices over the last year.
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