( July 9, 2026, 09:52 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: General exchanges of information between companies in Romania's car-insurance sector may still breach EU competition law, despite a lack of details on prices, according to a legal opinion for the EU's Court of Justice. Reviewing a dispute involving Groupama Asigurări, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos said that information sharing could be general, but that investigators also needed to look at the characteristics of a market, such as the nature of products and companies, to see if exchanges were anticompetitive. Rantos said companies were also free to "rebut the presumption" that they acted on the information they received.The opinion of Advocate General Rantos is attached. ...
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