Resale Price Maintenance II

The term “resale price maintenance” (RPM) refers to a particular type of vertical agreement in which an upstream firm controls or restricts the price (or sometimes the terms and conditions) at which a downstream firm can on-sell its product or service, usually to final consumers. The OECD Competition Committee debated Resale Price Maintenance in October 2008. This document includes an executive summary and the documents from the meeting: an analytical note my Mr. Jeremy West for the OECD, written submissions from Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Commission and BIAC, as well as an aide-memoire of the discussion.