Federal Cartel Office | |
Native Name: | Bundeskartellamt — BKartA — |
Type: | Federal agency |
Headquarters: | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia |
Motto: | open markets fair competition[1] |
Employees: | 402[2] |
Chief1 Name: | Andreas Mundt |
Parent Department: | Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action |
Website: | bundeskartellamt.de/EN |
The Federal Cartel Office (pronounced as /de/; 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]