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Frankfort (Reuters) - Germany's antitrust regulator has orderly that online change of location broker Engagement.com must chip a drill that forbids hotels from offer rooms at lower berth prices on their have websites.<br>So-known as parity bit clauses in contracts betwixt online reservation sites and hotels are coarse in the industry and stimulate led to complaints by rivals and scrutiny by regulators across European Community.<br>The exercise allows online trip agents so much as Reservation.com, disunite of U.S.-founded Priceline Group, to title that they forever propose the cheapest online rates usable.<br>Germany's Federal Combine Billet aforesaid the clause violates carnival contest rules.<br>In a yielding to regulators, Reservation.com eased its insurance policy in Dec 2014, allowing hotels to whirl turn down prices on competition portals only not on their ain websites. The cartel agency aforementioned that this was ease illegal.<br>"These so-called narrow best-price clauses still limit competition between existing portals as well as competition between the hotels," Andreas Mundt, the combine office's president, aforementioned in a command on Wednesday.<br>"The incentive for a hotel to reduce its prices on a hotel portal is very low when it has to charge higher prices on its own website at the same time," Mundt added.<br>Booking.com leave make to flake the clauses by Jan. 31, the guard dog aforesaid.<br>The regulator aforesaid that its probe into standardized practises at challenger Expedia was on-going. A High German courtyard likewise backed up a contest authority's decisiveness that so much clauses at HRS were illegal.<br>Booking.com said it would invoke the decisiveness and testament shift its policies in FRG until a terminal reigning has been made.<br><br>(Reportage by Harro ten Wolde, editing by Louise Heavens)<br>Read the master clause on Reuters. Copyright 2015. Surveil Reuters on Chitter.<br>More from Reuters:<br><br>Polio proletarian barb as Islamic Republic of Pakistan holds countrywide vaccination drive<br><br>Apple Chief executive officer opposes courtroom place to aid Federal Bureau of Investigation unlock iPhone<br><br>Blast kills at to the lowest degree 8 at southerly Yemeni war machine camp: witnesses, residents<br><br>Ukraine next-to-last friend quits coalition<br><br>Weather-weary American-Indian language farmers refuge to new hard cash crop: blood
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