The Competition Council has stated that the defendant’s activities in question constitute both advertising and commercial practices.
The Competition Council further investigated the compliance of the defendant’s statements with the misleading advertising regulation which had been in place before introduction of an unfair commercial practices regulation.
The Competition Council referred to the Lithuanian Law on Advertising pursuant to which an advertisement is in all circumstances regarded as misleading if it falls within the misleading part of the blacklist. In particular, it has been referred to the prohibition to falsely claim that a trader (including its commercial practices) has been licensed (authorised).
The Competition Council found out that the defendant did not hold a license for providing an attorney services. Therefore, the said statements were concluded to be false claims that a trader (including its commercial practices) has been licensed (authorised).
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