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Bundeskartellamt — BKartA — | |
Federal agency overview | |
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Formed | 1 January 1958 |
Headquarters | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia |
Motto | open markets | fair competition [1] |
Employees | 402 [2] |
Federal agency executive |
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Parent department | Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action |
Website | bundeskartellamt.de/EN |
The Federal Cartel Office ( German: Bundeskartellamt, German pronunciation: [bʊndəskaʁˈtɛlˌʔamt] ⓘ; BKartA) is Germany's national competition regulatory agency. First established in 1958, [3] BKartA comes under the authority of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. [4] The agency is headquartered in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. Since 2009, Andreas Mundt has served as the president of BKartA. [5]