Related national case laws

• The Finnish Supreme Administrative Court backs up the National Competition Authority and for the first time ever presents its view on the level of fines imposed in cartel cases (Asphalt cartel)
  25 août 2010
• The Italian Competition Authority closes its first leniency application case finding a price fixing cartel among the three main operators in the market for liquefied petroleum gas (Prezzo per il GPL)
  25 août 2010
• The Hungarian Competition authority imposes fines for bid rigging cartel in the railroad construction sector (Colas, MÁVÉPCELL, MÁV MTM, Szentesi Vasútépítő and Vasútépítők)
  25 août 2010
• The Czech Authority fines participants of a nation wide bid-rigging cartel for the first time (Hokra Spedition, Inzet, Prominecon Group, Cbk Shift, Natural Mystic)
  5 août 2010
• The Italian Competition Authority starts investigation against alleged price fixing between the main players in the field of maritime agency service (Servizi di Agenzia Marittima)
  5 août 2010
• The Croatian Competition Authority establishes existence of concerted practices among newspaper publishers that led to a uniform price increase (Slobodna Dalmacija, Europapress holding, RTD, Glas Slavonije, Glas Istre, Novi list, Večernji list, Vjesnik-naklada)
  30 juin 2010
• The Bulgarian Competition Authority finds no cartel on the market for banking services (Association of Banks in Bulgaria)
  17 juin 2010
• The Turkish Competition Board decides that several chicken producers and their professional association distorted competition by establishing a cartel and inflicts fines (Abalıoglu, Banvit, Beypi, CP, Erpilic, Keskinoglu, Pak Tavuk, Seker Pilic and Sen Pilic)
  17 juin 2010
• The UK Office of Fair Trading imposed £129.5 million in fines on construction firms for colluding with competitors (Construction Industry Cartel)
  4 juin 2010
• The Regional Administrative Tribunal for Latium upholds the decision of the Italian Antitrust Authority on the Pricing of Pasta case
  4 juin 2010
• The Croatian Competition Authority holds illegal minimum price fixing agreement among residential management service providers (Eki Inžinjering a. o.)
  19 mai 2010
• The Romanian Competition Authority releases its 2009 annual report
  19 mai 2010
• The UK Office of Fair Trading heavely fines price-fixing practices from supermarkets and tobacco firms in a decision which may be its largest ever combined fine (Imperial Tobacco, Gallaher and retailers)
  19 mai 2010
• The Italian Competition Authority starts investigation against the largest companies active in the production of road blocks (Comast - Road blocks market)
  5 mai 2010
• The Luxembourg Competition Council fines seven companies member of a cartel in the flooring industry (“Cité judiciaire”)
  21 avril 2010
• The Serbian Competition Authority releases its 2009 Annual Report
  17 mars 2010
• The Danish City Court of Århus inflicts an unsubstantial fine for price fixing (Veterinary surgeons)
  8 avril 2010
• The Spanish Competition Authority fines the five major producers of bath and shower gel for a price-fixing cartel in its first successful leniency case (Fabricantes de gel)
  21 avril 2010
• The English High Court sees a way through public policy objections to the recovery of cartel fines from company executives (Safeway Stores)
  3 mars 2010
• The Italian Competition Authority accepts commitments submitted by an association of undertakings in order to cease possible violation of Art. 101 TFUE regarding professional fees (Council of psychologists)
  17 février 2010
• The Lisbon Commerce Court confirms decision against bid-rigging cartel by pharmaceutical companies but substantially reduces fines (Abbott, Menarini and Johnson & Johnson)
  17 février 2010
• The Macedonian Competition Authority finds anticompetitive practices on the market for radio advertising (Ros Metropolis Radio)
  21 avril 2010
• The Czech Regional Court in Brno cancels an NCA decision for not providing sufficient evidence as to the participation of an undertaking in the the cartel conduct (Poultry Producers Cartel)
  8 avril 2010
• The Czech Supreme Administrative Court decides that, under Czech legislation in force prior to 1st. Sept. 2009, sanctions for an infringement of competition law may be imposed on the legal successor of the infringing entity where an intra group merger has been carried out in order to avoid said sanctions (Petrol cartel)
  17 mars 2010
• The Canadian Competition Bureau releases the final version of its Competitor Collaboration Guidelines instituting a new dual-track approach for conspiracy and agreement between competitors (section 45 and 90.1 Competition Act)
  17 mars 2010
• The Polish Competition Authority issues the highest fine in its history (Cement Cartel)
  17 février 2010
• The Hungarian Parliament amends the Competition Act and introduces rewards for information about cartels (Act CLXIII of 2009)
  17 février 2010
• The Portuguese Competition Authority fines individual managers for the first time in a cartel in the catering and related services and grants full exemption under leniency (Eurest, Trivalor, Uniself, ICA/Nordigal, Sodexo Portugal)
  17 février 2010
• The Portuguese Competition Authority fines € 14,7 million five undertakings implicated in the Canteen Cartel and uses the leniency regime for the first time (Eurest, Trivalor, Uniself, ICA/Nordigal, Sodexo Portugal)
  3 février 2010
• The Polish Competition Authority imposes the biggest fine in its history on members of a cement cartel (Lafarge Cement et al.)
  20 janvier 2010
• The Belgian Competition Prosecutor dismisses a complaint from the Union of Belgian French-speaking Booksellers alleging an abuse of dominance and the existence of a cartel between two book distributors (Dilibel)
  21 avril 2010
• The Belgian Competition Prosecutor dismisses a claim from the Union of Belgian French-speaking Booksellers against their main distributors concerning alleged illicit agreement and abuse of dominant position (Interforum)
  21 avril 2010
• The Berlin Higher Regional Court rules on key issues of standing and standard of proof in cartel damages suits
  17 mars 2010
• The High Court of England and Wales declines to issue a stay against a damage claim brought by tyre manufacturers seeking redress from members of an alleged Butadiene Rubber and Emulsion Styrene Butadiene Rubber cartel (Cooper Tire & Rubber Company and others / Shell Chemicals UK Limited and others)
  9 décembre 2009
• The Serbian Competition Authority clarifies its rules on application of the leniency program
  9 décembre 2009
• The Serbian Competition Authority advises the Government to review the list of medicines provided under the national health insurance scheme (Medicines provided under the national health insurance scheme)
  4 novembre 2009
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns an RPM scheme concerning GPS devices (LCP/Mitac)
  28 juin 2010
• The German Federal Cartel Office imposes a multi-millions fine against the market leader in the contact lenses business (CIBA Vision)
  18 novembre 2009
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court discusses in detail the legal consequences of failure to comply with the obligation to inform the EU Commission under Art. 11.3 and 4 of Reg. 1/2003 (Insurance Cartel - Civil Liability)
  6 janvier 2010
• The Portuguese Competition Authority insists on adopting a new decision about a price cartel case in which its previous ruling was annulled by Courts (Cerealis - Milling cartel)
  5 août 2009
• The German Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf halves the fines to the cement cartel based on the result of an independent economic analysis (Cement Cartel)
  20 janvier 2010
• The Swedish Competition Authority uses for the first time the "fine order" procedure as parties accepted not to refute the existence of a cartel in the energy sector (Rundvirke Poles)
  22 septembre 2009
• The Swedish Market Court ends asphalt cartel case by increasing fines up to € 46 M, reaching highest ever fine in a cartel case (NCC a.o.)
  17 juin 2009
• The English Court of Appeal overturns Competition Appeal Tribunal in a pro-defendant judgment on follow-on damages actions (Bcl Old Co. Ltd. / BASF)
  4 juin 2009
• The Swedish Market Court imposes record fines of € 50 M against asphalt cartel (NCC AB)
  4 juin 2009
• The Czech Supreme Administrative Court rules that a continuous offence which lasted after the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU shall be treated as two separate offences (GIS cartel)
  26 novembre 2009
• The English High Court strikes out a representative claim brought on behalf of “all other direct or indirect purchasers of air freight services”, refusing to stretch the scope of the English civil procedure rules in order to encourage the bringing of private damages actions (Emerald Supplies & ANR / British Airways)
  4 juin 2009
• The Czech Supreme Administrative Court rules that the NCA was entitled to sanction a cartel activity a part of which had already been sanctioned by the European Commission (Toshiba)
  20 mai 2009
• The Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters confirms € 1.9 million fine imposed on industrial chemicals wholesale cartel (Donau Chemie and Donauchem)
  18 novembre 2009
• The Hungarian Parliament adopts an amendment limiting the liability of leniency applicants and introducing new calculation of amount of damages
  21 mai 2009
• The Moldovan Competition Authority finds the existence of cartel on the market for international motor insurance (Green Card)
  25 mars 2009
• The Serbian Competition Authority released its 2008 Annual Report
  25 mars 2009
• The German Federal Court of Justice confirms the approach taken by the Federal Cartel Office regarding long-term gas supply agreements (Gaslieferverträge)
  21 octobre 2009
• A Belgian Court of appeal infers a cartel from a similar approach adopted by several medical oxygen providers boycotting a competitor (AGIM/Oxycure)
  22 avril 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority sanctions a cartel of 26 pasta producers and professional associations on the basis of Art. 81.1 EC (Listino prezzi della pasta)
  8 avril 2009
• The Hungarian Constitutional Court condemns a statute imposing ‘occupational ban’ on the executives of cartelist companies
  8 avril 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority investigates the coordination of prices by tree gas suppliers in violation of Art. 81 EC (Prezzo del GPL per riscaldamento regione Sardegna)
  20 mai 2009
• The President of the Czech Republic signs the new Criminal Code which introduces criminal sanctions for horizontal agreements
  25 février 2009
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court upholds an NCA decision evoking Art. 81.1 and 3 EC for the first time (Association of the Bulgarian insurance companies and Others - “Civil liability insurance for car drivers”)
  5 août 2009
• The UK Office of Fair Trading publishes revised leniency guidance for businesses and individuals that come forward with information about their involvement in a cartel (Leniency and no-action : OFT’s guidance note on the handling of applications)
  11 mars 2009
• The Italian competition authority fines four banks for operating as a cartel in the market of public compensation for workers on the basis of art. 81 EC (INAIL, affidamento servizio di cassa)
  28 janvier 2009
• The Austrian Cartel Court imposes fines of € 1.9 million to a company member of a cartel affecting the supply of industrial chemicals (Donau Chemie Group and Donauchem)
  25 février 2009
• The UK Court of Appeal’s judgment in the Marine Hoses cartel shows the interplay between UK criminal investigation and US plea agreement (Whittle, Allison and Brammar)
  29 janvier 2009
• The Greek Competition Authority condemns two multinational companies for a rebate scheme in the gasoline market (BP/Shell)
  14 janvier 2009
• The new Bulgarian Act on the Protection of Competition
  18 décembre 2008
• The Czech Chamber of Deputies adopts a new Code criminalising horizontal agreements
  4 décembre 2008
• A UK Court of Appeal holds that compensatory damages are adequate and that a restitutionary reward is not available following a finding that the competition rules have been breached (Devenish Nutrition Limited vs Anofi-Aventis SA (France) & Ors)
  25 février 2009
• The Austrian Supreme Court upholds record fine amounting to € 75.4 M (Elevators and escalators suppliers)
  4 décembre 2008
• A Swedish court fines eight car dealers for participating in a cartel (Renault and Volvo dealers)
  18 août 2010
• A German Court rules on access to the file in pending antitrust case (Listenpreis)
  25 mars 2009
• The Czech supreme administrative Court confirms regional Court’s cancellation of NCA’s decision concerning participation in alleged price fixing concerted practices (Bakery Cartel)
  14 janvier 2009
• The German Federal Court of Justice finds that a recommendation of the Association of German lottery operators violates the prohibition of Art. 81 EC and s. 1 of the Act Against Restraints of Competition (Lottoblock)
  5 novembre 2008
• The Italian Competition Authority decides not to adopt an interim measure against some batteries smelters investigated for cartel conducts (COBAT and others)
  28 août 2008
• The Bulgarian competition authority applies for the first time Art. 81.1 EC and sanctions 14 insurance companies for fixing minimum levels (Association of the Bulgarian insurance companies et al.)
  13 août 2008
• The UK OFT secures the first ever criminal convictions against individuals for cartel offences : A milestone in antitrust enforcement (Marine Hoses Cartel)
  13 août 2008
• The Finnish Competition Authority closes its investigation into exchange of confidential information in the daily consumer goods retail trade market (RuokaKesko, Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta, Tradeka)
  22 juillet 2008
• The UK Office of Fair Trading issues the first imprisonment and director’s disqualification orders against individuals prosecuted for criminal cartel (Marine Hoses Cartel)
  25 juin 2008
• An Irish Court sentences an individual to a suspended prison sentence for price-fixing (Citroen dealer)
  28 août 2008
• The French NCA rejects a complaint and a request for interim measures lodged by an association of telecommunications operators regarding an exclusive agreement for the distribution of TV programs as catch-up TV (AFORST/France Telecom - France Televisions)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Belgian Competition Council fines three companies nearly € 1.5 M for price fixing, market sharing and output-limitation in the chemical industry and applies leniency (Bayer - Ferro - Lonza and Solutia Europe)
  22 octobre 2008
• The Spanish Competition Authority imposes a € 15 M fine over two associations of carriers for acting as a cartel in the transport sector (‘Transportes Barcelona’)
  23 avril 2008
• The Lisbon Commerce Court confirms against cartel operating in the Port of Setúbal but reduces fines (Rebonave, Rebosado and Lutamar)
  17 mars 2010
• The Romanian Competition Council fines € 22.6 M distributors and manufacturer for sharing insulin portfolio (Eli Lilly, A&A Medical, Mediplus Exim, Relad Pharma)
  25 février 2009
• The UK House of Lords establishes that the conspiracy to defraud offence may not replace the cartel offence, for facts before 2003, where no deceit, misrepresentation nor lies are involved (Norris)
  9 juillet 2008
• The Romanian Competition Council fines a pharmaceutical producer and three distributors for participation into a market-sharing cartel active on the insulin market (Eli Lilly Export, A&A Medical, Mediplus Exim and Relad Pharma)
  25 juin 2008
• The UK OFT proposes payments to whistle-blowers in leniency proceedings
  14 mai 2008
• The highest Luxembourg administrative Court confirms the investigative powers of the competition authorities
  23 avril 2008
• The Turkish Competition Board confirms fine on only one cartel member for price fixing in the ready mixed concrete market (Lafarge)
  28 août 2008
• The French Supreme Court makes an another step towards criminalization of anticompetitive practices (Paris high-schools public markets)
  25 juin 2008
• The German Competition Authority rules against market division and information exchange in the sand-lime brick sector (KS-Quadro)
  11 juin 2008
• A UK Court grants a plaintif judicial review against the NCA’s “sensational publicity” and “public relations” policy regarding the disclosure of investigations’ results (Lactalis Mclelland - "Dairy price fixers’ case")
  26 mars 2008
• The Portuguese Competition Authority adopts a new decision concerning a cartel of pharmaceutical companies following a decision of the Lisbon Commercial Court (Abbot, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Menarini)
  9 avril 2008
• The Luxembourg administrative Court issues final clarification on the leniency procedure
  25 février 2008
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns an RPM scheme concerning navigation devices and PDA software (Navi-Gate)
  28 juin 2010
• The Hungarian Competition Authority invokes cartel rules and leniency policy with regard to an exclusive distribution agreement in the healthcare sector (Kortex/Olympus)
  12 février 2008
• The UK OFT employs a form of direct settlement and agrees over € 155 M penalties in dairies cartel case (Asda, Dairy Crest, Safeway, Sainsbury’s a.o.)
  12 février 2008
• The Lisbon Court of Appeal confirmed the Portuguese NCA’s decision on the salt cartel case (Salexpor, Salmex, Vitasal)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Lisbon Appeal Court confirms a major NCA’s cartel decision paving the way for a robust practice of control of anticompetitive agreements in Portugal (‘Salt Cartel’ - Salexpor, Salmex, Vitasal)
  15 janvier 2008
• The Italian Administrative Supreme Court confirms € 370 million fine against a cartel in the jet fuel market, launching debates on a new era for European joint-ventures (Rifornimenti Aeroportuali)
  18 décembre 2007
• The English High Court finds that following an infringement decision by the European Commission, the appropriate claim is for compensatory and not exemplary or restitutionary damages (Devenish/Sanofi-Aventis - "Vitamins Cartel")
  27 janvier 2008
• The Paris Court of Appeals upholds the French Competition Council’s decision on the railway laying and maintenance cartel but reduces fines (SNCF/ETF and SPTV)
  18 décembre 2007
• The Austrian Federal Competition Authority applies for record fines amounting to EUR 88 M. against five companies in the elevator and escalator industry and applies leniency
  11 décembre 2007
• The Spanish competition authority fines four saving banks for market sharing and coordination of commercial conditions (Caja Vital, BBK, Kutxa, CAN)
  11 décembre 2007
• The Belgian Competition Council adopts a new notice on immunity from fines and reduction of fines in cartel cases in order to align the Belgian leniency program with the ECN model leniency program
  27 novembre 2007
• The Austrian Supreme Court increases one of the fines imposed to banks by the NCA in the ATM agreement case from € 5 to 7 M (Europay Austria, "Bankomat-Vertrag")
  27 novembre 2007
• The Luxembourg Competition Council allows the imposition of an IT tool by a car insurance company on car damage experts (OEIPA/Le FoyerAssurances)
  25 septembre 2007
• The Bundeskartellamt holds that risk pooling by insurance companies for insuring liability risks of auditing firms violates Art. 81 EC but excludes insurance for ‘Big 4’ (Allianz - Axa - R+V - Ergo)
  26 mars 2008
• The German Competition Authority prohibits insurance cartel for insurance for pecuniary loss liability risks of auditors and chartered accountants (Versicherungsstelle Wiesbaden)
  11 décembre 2007
• The UK Office of Fair Trading imposes its highest ever fine and applies leniency in the course of civil and criminal law proceedings (British Airways)
  12 octobre 2007
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of a bank association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  18 mars 2009
• The Stockholm City Court inflicts the highest amount of fines ever but casts doubts on fining predictability and consistency with EU law (Asphalt Cartel)
  26 novembre 2007
• The Stockholm District Court confirms a record fine for the largest cartel in Swedish history (Asphalt Cartel)
  25 septembre 2007
• The French Commercial Supreme Court rules that exchange of information is not prohibited per se and recalls that imposing fine in an oligopolistic market requires to demonstrate a concrete anticompetitive object or effect (Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR, “Mobile telephony case”)
  22 juillet 2008
• The German Federal Supreme Court rules on the methods for quantifying cartel profits (Paper Wholesale-Cartel)
  28 mai 2008
• A German Court finds that a cartel agreement causing a coordination of prices can affect competition substantially even if the involved undertakings have a combined market share of less than 10% (Nord-KS/Xella)
  9 avril 2008
• The French Commercial Supreme Court rules that exchange of information between competitors in an oligopolistic market is not per se contrary to Art. 81 EC and national equivalent provision (Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR)
  24 septembre 2007
• The Czech NCA publishes new version of the Leniency Programme
  20 août 2007
• The German Federal Cartel Office prohibits waste glass joint purchasing cartel between container glass manufacturers (GGA)
  12 octobre 2007
• The OFT uses for the first time home search powers for a criminal investigation into a suspected cartel (Marine Hoses Cartel)
  23 juillet 2007
• The Italian Antitrust Authority opens an investigation under Art. 81 EC for bid rigging in the banking sector (INAIL Affidamento Servizio di Cassa)
  10 juillet 2007
• The Italian Competition Authority grants a cartelist total immunity for the first time under the new Leniency Notice (Produttori di pannelli truciolari in legno)
  10 juillet 2007
• The Italian Competition Authority grants leniency for the first time : 8 companies fined for a total of € 31 million ; Total immunity granted to the first leniency applicant (Produttori di pannelli truciolari in legno)
  20 juin 2007
• The Portuguese Competition Authority fines € 185.000 three undertakings implicated in a cartel operating on the tug services market in the Port of Setúbal (Rebonave, Rebosado and Lutamar)
  9 mars 2010
• The Hungarian Competition Office condemns price fixing and bid rigging for public tenders in the construction sector and for the first time opens criminal proceedings (Bau Art)
  27 novembre 2007
• The French Competition Council publishes a revised leniency programme in line with the European Model Leniency Programme launched by the European Competition Network
  19 septembre 2007
• The German federal Court of justice recalls that norm and type agreements must be open to all potential members on a non-discriminatory basis (PETCYCLE)
  20 août 2007
• The Danish Competition Authority condemns a cartel between seven local banks (Lokalbanksamarbejdet)
  20 juin 2007
• The Irish Supreme Court refers a preliminary question to the ECJ on the validity of the rationalisation programme of a crisis cartel (Beef Industry Development Society - BIDS)
  22 mai 2007
• The Austrian Supreme Court holds that certain aspects of a co-operation agreement between Austrian savings banks violates Art 81 EC (Erste Bank)
  9 mai 2007
• The Czech NCA inflicts a record fines of 35 M € in the gas insulated switchgears market in spite of leniency ("GIS cartel")
  8 mars 2007
• De facto class action for cartel damages in Germany ? A German Court rules on procedural key issues for cartel damages suits (Cartel Damage Claims SA)
  28 février 2007
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of the Italian Bank Association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  19 décembre 2009
• The German Federal Cartel Office accepts commitments offered by four major gas transmission companies ensuring the compatibility of long term gas supply agreements with Art. 81 & 82 EC and German competition law (Bayerngas, Gas-Union, Saar Ferngas, Wingas)
  20 juin 2007
• A French Court refuses to grant damages to alleged victim of the vitamin cartels (Juva/Hoffmann La Roche)
  24 avril 2007
• The Italian Antitrust Authority fines more than 4 M € firms on the basis of Art. 82 EC for having exchanged information on the marine coatings market (Vernici Marine)
  24 mars 2007
• An Irish criminal court imposes criminal sanctions to a cartel in the oil market (Dalton and Corrib Oil)
  27 février 2007
• The Paris Court of Appeal confirms the NCA’s record fine on three mobile telephony operators for exchanging confidential information and maintaining market shares (Bouygues Télécoms, SFR, Orange France)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Hungarian Competition Office imposes record cartel fine in the car insurance sector (Allianz)
  23 janvier 2007
• The Paris Court of appeal upholds France’s highest antitrust fine ever and confirms a strict -yet not entirely clear- approach towards exchange of information between competitors in oligopoly markets (Bouygues Télécom, SFR, Orange France)
  22 janvier 2007
• The Hungarian Competition Office fines three IT companies for collusion in public procurement procedures (Synergon...)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Lithuanian Competition Authority concludes that sharing of confidential information in the wholesale paper distribution markets violates both national competition provisions and Art. 81 EC (Schneidersöhne Baltija)
  24 janvier 2007
• The Hungarian Competition Office fined € 40,000 two IT undertakings for bid rigging (Albacomp, Synergon)
  26 mars 2008
• The Paris Court of Appeal confirms the NCA’s decision sanctioning hotels for operating an illegal cartel by exchanging confidential commercial information (Parisian palaces)
  11 décembre 2006
• The Hungarian competition authority fines a cartel in a public bid for IT services market (Synergon-SAP Hungary)
  11 décembre 2006
• The Finnish Competition Authority grants for the first time immunity from fines for a cartel whistleblower (Oy Arwidson Ab, HL Group Oy, Koivunen Oy...)
  22 octobre 2006
• The German Bundeskartellamt fines 2.64 millions € a cartel of pharmaceutical wholesalers (Andrae Noris Zahn a. o.)
  12 juin 2007
• A Dutch Court quashes the decision of the national competition authority in the mobile operators case for unsufficient motivation (KPN Mobile, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone Libertel...)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Portuguese Competition Authority condemns cartel in the salt sector under Art. 81 EC and imposes a fine of 1 M € (‘Salt Cartel’ - Salexpor, Salmex, Vitasal)
  25 septembre 2006
• The Austrian Supreme Court confirms the NCA’s decision fining a cartel between cement producers having planned a joint production facility on the basis of the new cartel law with references to EC Law ("Austrian Cartel Cement")
  7 mars 2007
• A German Court prohibits long term gas supply agreements between the incumbent and regional and local distributors on the bases of both Art. 81, 82 EC and German competition law (E.ON Ruhrgas)
  7 février 2007
• The Italian Competition Authority fines the main suppliers of jet fuel in the Italian market for breach of Art. 81 EC (Rifornimenti Aeroportuali)
  25 juillet 2006
• The German Higher Regional Court clarifies new German rules on private enforcement of competition law (Cement cartel)
  13 septembre 2006
• The Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia fines the main Spanish food retailers € 75,000 for imposing uniform trading conditions on their suppliers of alcoholic beverages (FIAB)
  11 juin 2006
• The German Federal Cartel Office issues a revised notice on the immunity from and reduction of fines in cartel cases (Leniency Notice - “Bonusregelung”)
  25 mai 2006
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns collective RPM of publishers and bookstores (MKKE)
  6 juillet 2010
• The Italian antitrust authority, after an investigative coordination with a criminal court, imposed € 3.7 million fines to antiseptic and disinfectant product distributors for infringement of Art. 81 EC (Prodotti disinfettanti)
  1er juillet 2006
• The French Competition Council implements the leniency procedure for the first time (Door manufacturing sector)
  1er juillet 2006
• The French Competition Council specifies the scope and the mechanism of its anti-cartel leniency programme by simultaneously issuing its first leniency decision and publishing a procedural leniency notice (Doors manufacturing)
  12 avril 2006
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns factual resale price maintenance (Kemira)
  6 juillet 2010
• The Hellenic Competition Commission adopts a leniency programme
  24 mai 2006
• The German NCA publishes a new Leniency Program
  10 mai 2006
• The Paris Court of Appeal upholds the NCA decision fining a cartel in the public passenger urban transport market with reference to the EC Commission’s notice on effect on trade (Keolis - Connex - Transdev)
  8 mars 2006
• The Slovak Antimonopoly Office imposes high fines for bid-rigging (Highway D1)
  18 février 2006
• The German Federal Cartel Office issued a statement of objections against Germany’s major gas company with the aim of prohibiting certain long term supply agreements with regional and local gas distributors that violate European and German competition law (E.ON Ruhrgas)
  16 janvier 2006
• The German Federal Cartel Office applies a small and medium-sized undertakings exemption to a cartel in the sector of brick production and finds that trade between Member States is not affected (Ziegelwerk Bellenberg Wiest a. o.)
  17 mars 2006
• The French Competition Authority fines a price-fixing cartel in the essential lavender oils sector under Art. 81.1 EC (CIHEF)
  22 novembre 2005
• The Hungarian Competition Authority fines construction companies for bid rigging in six construction tenders (Adeptus and others)
  30 septembre 2008
• The upcoming reform of Serbian competition law : A necessary step towards closer approximation with EU law
  13 août 2008
• The German Federal Cartel Office fines € 20 M a cartel of insurance companies (Sparkassen)
  18 février 2006
• The French Competition Authority fined three major national companies for implementing a cartel in the public passenger urban transport market, with potential appreciable effect on trade between member States (Keolis, Connex and Transdev)
  19 septembre 2005
• The Hungarian Competition Authority fines IT companies for bid rigging (SAP and others)
  30 septembre 2008
• The German Federal Court of Justice rules on the standard of proof for the existence of a revenue surplus from a cartel agreement (Transportbeton Berlin)
  8 mars 2006
• The Hungarian Competition Authority reduces a fine imposed to an undertaking in the framework of a leniency programme (Kemira, Tessenderlo)
  18 septembre 2005
• The German Mannheim Regional Court decided on the right to claim against a vertically integrated cartelist and the standard of proof for antitrust damages in a follow on-suit (Carbonless paper)
  26 mars 2008
• A Swedish Court applies the Commission’s notice on immunity from fines and reduction of fines in cartel cases before the Swedish Competition Authority’s corresponding notice (Konkurrensverket/Keyvent/Building Systems)
  29 octobre 2009
• The Polish Competition Authority fines five taxi companies for entering into an anti-competitive price fixing agreement (Echo Taxi, Tele Taxi a.o.)
  19 juillet 2005
• The Court of The Hague condemns the Dutch State to make good the damage suffered by an undertaking following the publication by the Competition Authority of a press release (Accel)
  19 juillet 2005
• The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal unanimously dismissed the appeal in the roofing cartel appeal (Apex Asphalt/OFT)
  4 juillet 2009
• The French Competition Council refers a hard-core cartel to the public prosecutor (“Ready-made concrete stairs”)
  23 juillet 2007
• The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal decides for the first time on claims for damages for breach of Art. 81 EC under national competition provision (Vitamins)
  12 juin 2006
• The Swedish Supreme Court declares that a concerted practice cannot be subject to nullity under section 7 of the [former] Swedish Competition Act (Boliden Mineral Aktiebolag/AB Fortum Värme samägt med Stockholms stad)
  29 octobre 2009
• The Latvian Competition Council fined a professionnal association for coordinating prices and exchanging price related information (Eggs Cartel)
  22 juillet 2008
• The French Competition Authority catches a defensive cartel of maritime transport carrier companies for abusive pricing on the basis of both national and EC competition laws (Channel Islands)
  13 septembre 2005
• The Finish Competition Authority proposes to Market Court to impose fines on companies members of a cartel in the asphalt sector
  13 septembre 2005
• The Stockholm City Court holds that a company may be fined for having undertaken cartel activities against itself (Asphalt Cartel)
  12 décembre 2006
• The Hungarian Competition Authority fined construction companies for bid rigging in Budapest public construction tenders (Alterra)
  30 septembre 2008
• The French Competition Council refers a hard-core cartel case to the public prosecutor (Bakery sector in the Marne department)
  23 juillet 2007
• The Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court decides on passing on defence in the "Vitamins cartel" (Vitaminpreise)
  26 mars 2008
• Competition law in Albania
  23 avril 2009
• The Dutch Competition Authority fines over € 13 M shrimp wholesalers and fisheries for the first time on the basis of Art. 81 EC (North Sea Shrimp Sector)
  18 mars 2009
• An overview of Swedish competition law and upcoming reforms
  8 mars 2007
• The German Federal Court of Justice finds that a recommendation of the Association of German lottery operators violates the prohibition of Art. 81 EC and s. 1 of the Act Against Restraints of Competition (Lottoblock)
  5 novembre 2008
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court upholds an NCA decision evoking Art. 81.1 and 3 EC for the first time (Association of the Bulgarian insurance companies and Others - “Civil liability insurance for car drivers”)
  5 août 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority investigates the coordination of prices by tree gas suppliers in violation of Art. 81 EC (Prezzo del GPL per riscaldamento regione Sardegna)
  20 mai 2009
• The Austrian Supreme Court holds that certain aspects of a co-operation agreement between Austrian savings banks violates Art 81 EC (Erste Bank)
  9 mai 2007
• The German Federal Cartel Office applies a small and medium-sized undertakings exemption to a cartel in the sector of brick production and finds that trade between Member States is not affected (Ziegelwerk Bellenberg Wiest a. o.)
  17 mars 2006
• The French Competition Authority fined three major national companies for implementing a cartel in the public passenger urban transport market, with potential appreciable effect on trade between member States (Keolis, Connex and Transdev)
  19 septembre 2005
• The French Competition Authority catches a defensive cartel of maritime transport carrier companies for abusive pricing on the basis of both national and EC competition laws (Channel Islands)
  13 septembre 2005
• The Lisbon Commerce Court confirms decision against bid-rigging cartel by pharmaceutical companies but substantially reduces fines (Abbott, Menarini and Johnson & Johnson)
  17 février 2010
• The Serbian Competition Authority advises the Government to review the list of medicines provided under the national health insurance scheme (Medicines provided under the national health insurance scheme)
  4 novembre 2009
• A UK Court of Appeal holds that compensatory damages are adequate and that a restitutionary reward is not available following a finding that the competition rules have been breached (Devenish Nutrition Limited vs Anofi-Aventis SA (France) & Ors)
  25 février 2009
• The Romanian Competition Council fines a pharmaceutical producer and three distributors for participation into a market-sharing cartel active on the insulin market (Eli Lilly Export, A&A Medical, Mediplus Exim and Relad Pharma)
  25 juin 2008
• The Portuguese Competition Authority adopts a new decision concerning a cartel of pharmaceutical companies following a decision of the Lisbon Commercial Court (Abbot, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Menarini)
  9 avril 2008
• The English High Court finds that following an infringement decision by the European Commission, the appropriate claim is for compensatory and not exemplary or restitutionary damages (Devenish/Sanofi-Aventis - "Vitamins Cartel")
  27 janvier 2008
• The German Bundeskartellamt fines 2.64 millions € a cartel of pharmaceutical wholesalers (Andrae Noris Zahn a. o.)
  12 juin 2007
• The UK Office of Fair Trading heavely fines price-fixing practices from supermarkets and tobacco firms in a decision which may be its largest ever combined fine (Imperial Tobacco, Gallaher and retailers)
  19 mai 2010
• Leniency : Main issues in national antitrust case laws
  10 mars 2010
• The English High Court sees a way through public policy objections to the recovery of cartel fines from company executives (Safeway Stores)
  3 mars 2010
• The Hungarian Parliament amends the Competition Act and introduces rewards for information about cartels (Act CLXIII of 2009)
  17 février 2010
• The Portuguese Competition Authority fines € 14,7 million five undertakings implicated in the Canteen Cartel and uses the leniency regime for the first time (Eurest, Trivalor, Uniself, ICA/Nordigal, Sodexo Portugal)
  3 février 2010
• The Polish Competition Authority imposes the biggest fine in its history on members of a cement cartel (Lafarge Cement et al.)
  20 janvier 2010
• The Serbian Competition Authority clarifies its rules on application of the leniency program
  9 décembre 2009
• The Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters confirms € 1.9 million fine imposed on industrial chemicals wholesale cartel (Donau Chemie and Donauchem)
  18 novembre 2009
• A Swedish Court applies the Commission’s notice on immunity from fines and reduction of fines in cartel cases before the Swedish Competition Authority’s corresponding notice (Konkurrensverket/Keyvent/Building Systems)
  29 octobre 2009
• The Swedish Competition Authority uses for the first time the "fine order" procedure as parties accepted not to refute the existence of a cartel in the energy sector (Rundvirke Poles)
  22 septembre 2009
• The Swedish Market Court imposes record fines of € 50 M against asphalt cartel (NCC AB)
  4 juin 2009
• The Hungarian Parliament adopts an amendment limiting the liability of leniency applicants and introducing new calculation of amount of damages
  21 mai 2009
• A German Court rules on access to the file in pending antitrust case (Listenpreis)
  25 mars 2009
• The UK Office of Fair Trading publishes revised leniency guidance for businesses and individuals that come forward with information about their involvement in a cartel (Leniency and no-action : OFT’s guidance note on the handling of applications)
  11 mars 2009
• The Austrian Cartel Court imposes fines of € 1.9 million to a company member of a cartel affecting the supply of industrial chemicals (Donau Chemie Group and Donauchem)
  25 février 2009
• The Hungarian Competition Authority reduces a fine imposed to an undertaking in the framework of a leniency programme (Kemira, Tessenderlo)
  4 février 2009
• The Czech NCA inflicts a record fines of 35 M € in the gas insulated switchgears market in spite of leniency ("GIS cartel")
  29 janvier 2009
• A UK Court grants a plaintif judicial review against the NCA’s “sensational publicity” and “public relations” policy regarding the disclosure of investigations’ results (Lactalis Mclelland - "Dairy price fixers’ case")
  29 janvier 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority grants a cartelist total immunity for the first time under the new Leniency Notice (Produttori di pannelli truciolari in legno)
  25 janvier 2009
• The Austrian Supreme Court upholds record fine amounting to € 75.4 M (Elevators and escalators suppliers)
  20 janvier 2009
• Les politiques de clémence en Europe
  11 septembre 2008
• The upcoming reform of Serbian competition law : A necessary step towards closer approximation with EU law
  13 août 2008
• The UK OFT proposes payments to whistle-blowers in leniency proceedings
  14 mai 2008
• The Luxembourg administrative Court issues final clarification on the leniency procedure
  25 février 2008
• The Hungarian Competition Authority invokes cartel rules and leniency policy with regard to an exclusive distribution agreement in the healthcare sector (Kortex/Olympus)
  12 février 2008
• The Austrian Federal Competition Authority applies for record fines amounting to EUR 88 M. against five companies in the elevator and escalator industry and applies leniency
  11 décembre 2007
• The Belgian Competition Council adopts a new notice on immunity from fines and reduction of fines in cartel cases in order to align the Belgian leniency program with the ECN model leniency program
  27 novembre 2007
• The French Competition Council publishes a revised leniency programme in line with the European Model Leniency Programme launched by the European Competition Network
  19 septembre 2007
• The Finnish Competition Authority grants for the first time immunity from fines for a cartel whistleblower (Oy Arwidson Ab, HL Group Oy, Koivunen Oy...)
  22 octobre 2006
• The Hellenic Competition Commission adopts a leniency programme
  24 mai 2006
• The German NCA publishes a new Leniency Program
  10 mai 2006
• The French Competition Council specifies the scope and the mechanism of its anti-cartel leniency programme by simultaneously issuing its first leniency decision and publishing a procedural leniency notice (Doors manufacturing)
  12 avril 2006
• The Croatian Competition Authority holds illegal minimum price fixing agreement among residential management service providers (Eki Inžinjering a. o.)
  19 mai 2010
• A Swedish court fines eight car dealers for participating in a cartel (Renault and Volvo dealers)
  31 juillet 2009
• A German Court finds that a cartel agreement causing a coordination of prices can affect competition substantially even if the involved undertakings have a combined market share of less than 10% (Nord-KS/Xella)
  9 avril 2008
• The Danish Competition Authority condemns a cartel between seven local banks (Lokalbanksamarbejdet)
  20 juin 2007
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court discusses in detail the legal consequences of failure to comply with the obligation to inform the EU Commission of Art. 11.3 and 4 of Reg. 1/2003 (Insurance Cartel - Civil Liability)
  6 janvier 2010
• A German Court rules on access to the file in pending antitrust case (Listenpreis)
  25 mars 2009
• A Belgian Court of appeal infers a cartel from a similar approach adopted by several medical oxygen providers boycotting a competitor (AGIM/Oxycure)
  22 avril 2009
• The German Federal Court of Justice rules on the standard of proof for the existence of a revenue surplus from a cartel agreement (Transportbeton Berlin)
  8 mars 2006
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns factual resale price maintenance (Kemira)
  6 juillet 2010
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns collective RPM of publishers and bookstores (MKKE)
  6 juillet 2010
• The Hungarian Competition Authority invokes cartel rules and leniency policy with regard to an exclusive distribution agreement in the healthcare sector (Kortex/Olympus)
  12 février 2008
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court upholds an NCA decision evoking Art. 81.1 and 3 EC for the first time (Association of the Bulgarian insurance companies and Others - “Civil liability insurance for car drivers”)
  5 août 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority accepts commitments submitted by an association of undertakings in order to cease possible violation of Art. 101 TFUE regarding professional fees (Council of psychologists)
  17 février 2010
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of a bank association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  18 mars 2009
• The German Federal Cartel Office accepts commitments offered by four major gas transmission companies ensuring the compatibility of long term gas supply agreements with Art. 81 & 82 EC and German competition law (Bayerngas, Gas-Union, Saar Ferngas, Wingas)
  27 janvier 2009
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court discusses in detail the legal consequences of failure to comply with the obligation to inform the EU Commission under Art. 11.3 and 4 of Reg. 1/2003 (Insurance Cartel - Civil Liability)
  6 janvier 2010
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court upholds an NCA decision evoking Art. 81.1 and 3 EC for the first time (Association of the Bulgarian insurance companies and Others - “Civil liability insurance for car drivers”)
  5 août 2009
• The Moldovan Competition Authority finds the existence of cartel on the market for international motor insurance (Green Card)
  25 mars 2009
• The Bundeskartellamt holds that risk pooling by insurance companies for insuring liability risks of auditing firms violates Art. 81 EC but excludes insurance for ‘Big 4’ (Allianz - Axa - R+V - Ergo)
  29 janvier 2009
• The Bulgarian competition authority applies for the first time Art. 81.1 EC and sanctions 14 insurance companies for fixing minimum levels (Association of the Bulgarian insurance companies et al.)
  13 août 2008
• The German Competition Authority prohibits insurance cartel for insurance for pecuniary loss liability risks of auditors and chartered accountants (Versicherungsstelle Wiesbaden)
  11 décembre 2007
• The Luxembourg Competition Council allows the imposition of an IT tool by a car insurance company on car damage experts (OEIPA/Le FoyerAssurances)
  25 septembre 2007
• The Hungarian Competition Office imposes record cartel fine in the car insurance sector (Allianz)
  23 janvier 2007
• The German Federal Cartel Office fines € 20 M a cartel of insurance companies (Sparkassen)
  18 février 2006
• The Hungarian Competition Office imposes record cartel fine in the car insurance sector (Allianz)
  23 janvier 2007
• The Lisbon Commerce Court confirms against cartel operating in the Port of Setúbal but reduces fines (Rebonave, Rebosado and Lutamar)
  17 mars 2010
• The Polish Competition Authority issues the highest fine in its history (Cement Cartel)
  17 février 2010
• The Lisbon Commerce Court confirms decision against bid-rigging cartel by pharmaceutical companies but substantially reduces fines (Abbott, Menarini and Johnson & Johnson)
  17 février 2010
• The UK Office of Fair Trading publishes revised leniency guidance for businesses and individuals that come forward with information about their involvement in a cartel (Leniency and no-action : OFT’s guidance note on the handling of applications)
  11 mars 2009
• The Turkish Competition Board confirms fine on only one cartel member for price fixing in the ready mixed concrete market (Lafarge)
  28 août 2008
• The German Federal Supreme Court rules on the methods for quantifying cartel profits (Paper Wholesale-Cartel)
  28 mai 2008
• The Paris Court of Appeals upholds the French Competition Council’s decision on the railway laying and maintenance cartel but reduces fines (SNCF/ETF and SPTV)
  18 décembre 2007
• The Austrian Supreme Court increases one of the fines imposed to banks by the NCA in the ATM agreement case from € 5 to 7 M (Europay Austria, "Bankomat-Vertrag")
  27 novembre 2007
• The Stockholm City Court inflicts the highest amount of fines ever but casts doubts on fining predictability and consistency with EU law (Asphalt Cartel)
  26 novembre 2007
• A Swedish court fines eight car dealers for participating in a cartel (Renault and Volvo dealers)
  31 juillet 2009
• The Finnish Competition Authority grants for the first time immunity from fines for a cartel whistleblower (Oy Arwidson Ab, HL Group Oy, Koivunen Oy...)
  23 février 2009
• An Irish Court sentences an individual to a suspended prison sentence for price-fixing (Citroen dealer)
  28 août 2008
• The Czech Supreme Administrative Court rules that the NCA was entitled to sanction a cartel activity a part of which had already been sanctioned by the European Commission (Toshiba)
  20 mai 2009
• A Dutch Court quashes the decision of the national competition authority in the mobile operators case for unsufficient motivation (KPN Mobile, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone Libertel...)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Canadian Competition Bureau releases the final version of its Competitor Collaboration Guidelines (section 45 and 90.1 Competition Act)
  17 mars 2010
• The President of the Czech Republic signs the new Criminal Code which introduces criminal sanctions for horizontal agreements
  18 mars 2009
• The UK Office of Fair Trading publishes revised leniency guidance for businesses and individuals that come forward with information about their involvement in a cartel (Leniency and no-action : OFT’s guidance note on the handling of applications)
  18 mars 2009
• The Hungarian Competition Office condemns price fixing and bid rigging for public tenders in the construction sector and for the first time opens criminal proceedings (Bau Art)
  29 janvier 2009
• The UK Court of Appeal’s judgment in the cartel shows the interplay between UK criminal investigation and US plea agreement (Whittle, Allison and Brammar)
  29 janvier 2009
• The UK Office of Fair Trading issues the first imprisonment and director’s disqualification orders against individuals prosecuted for criminal cartel (Marine Hoses Cartel)
  27 janvier 2009
• An Irish Court sentences an individual to a suspended prison sentence for price-fixing (Citroen dealer)
  20 janvier 2009
• The Czech Chamber of Deputies adopts a new Code criminalising horizontal agreements
  20 janvier 2009
• The UK OFT secures the first ever criminal convictions against individuals for cartel offences : A milestone in antitrust enforcement (Marine Hoses Cartel)
  13 août 2008
• The UK House of Lords establishes that the conspiracy to defraud offence may not replace the cartel offence, for facts before 2003, where no deceit, misrepresentation nor lies are involved (Norris)
  9 juillet 2008
• The UK OFT proposes payments to whistle-blowers in leniency proceedings
  14 mai 2008
• The UK Office of Fair Trading imposes its highest ever fine and applies leniency in the course of civil and criminal law proceedings (British Airways)
  12 octobre 2007
• The OFT uses for the first time home search powers for a criminal investigation into a suspected cartel (Marine Hoses Cartel)
  23 juillet 2007
• The French Competition Council refers a hard-core cartel case to the public prosecutor (Bakery sector in the Marne department)
  23 juillet 2007
• The French Competition Council refers a hard-core cartel to the public prosecutor (“Ready-made concrete stairs”)
  23 juillet 2007
• An Irish criminal court imposes criminal sanctions to a cartel in the oil market (Dalton and Corrib Oil)
  27 février 2007
• The Italian antitrust authority, after an investigative coordination with a criminal court, imposed € 3.7 million fines to antiseptic and disinfectant product distributors for infringement of Art. 81 EC (Prodotti disinfettanti)
  1er juillet 2006
• The French Competition Council implements the leniency procedure for the first time (Door manufacturing sector)
  1er juillet 2006
• The Italian Competition Authority starts investigation against alleged price fixing between the main players in the field of maritime agency service (Servizi di Agenzia Marittima)
  5 août 2010
• The Belgian Competition Prosecutor dismisses a complaint from the Union of Belgian French-speaking Booksellers alleging an abuse of dominance and the existence of a cartel between two book distributors (Dilibel)
  21 avril 2010
• The Belgian Competition Prosecutor dismisses a claim from the Union of Belgian French-speaking Booksellers against their main distributors concerning alleged illicit agreement and abuse of dominant position (Interforum)
  21 avril 2010
• The Italian Competition Authority accepts commitments submitted by an association of undertakings in order to cease possible violation of Art. 101 TFUE regarding professional fees (Council of psychologists)
  17 février 2010
• The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court upholds an NCA decision evoking Art. 81.1 and 3 EC for the first time (Association of the Bulgarian insurance companies and Others - “Civil liability insurance for car drivers”)
  5 août 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of a bank association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  18 mars 2009
• The Spanish Competition Authority imposes a € 15 M fine over two associations of carriers for acting as a cartel in the transport sector (‘Transportes Barcelona’)
  25 février 2009
• The German federal Court of justice recalls that norm and type agreements must be open to all potential members on a non-discriminatory basis (PETCYCLE)
  29 janvier 2009
• The Hungarian Competition authority imposes fines for bid rigging cartel in the railroad construction sector (Colas, MÁVÉPCELL, MÁV MTM, Szentesi Vasútépítő and Vasútépítők)
  13 août 2010
• The Portuguese Competition Authority fines € 185.000 three undertakings implicated in a cartel operating on the tug services market in the Port of Setúbal (Rebonave, Rebosado and Lutamar)
  9 mars 2010
• The Spanish Competition Authority imposes a € 15 M fine over two associations of carriers for acting as a cartel in the transport sector (‘Transportes Barcelona’)
  23 avril 2008
• The Paris Court of Appeals upholds the French Competition Council’s decision on the railway laying and maintenance cartel but reduces fines (SNCF/ETF and SPTV)
  18 décembre 2007
• The Paris Court of Appeal upholds the NCA decision fining a cartel in the public passenger urban transport market with reference to the EC Commission’s notice on effect on trade (Keolis - Connex - Transdev)
  8 mars 2006
• The Bulgarian Competition Authority finds no cartel on the market for banking services (Association of Banks in Bulgaria)
  17 juin 2010
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of the Italian Bank Association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  15 novembre 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of a bank association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  18 mars 2009
• The Italian competition authority fines four banks for operating as a cartel in the market of public compensation for workers on the basis of art. 81 EC (INAIL, affidamento servizio di cassa)
  28 janvier 2009
• The Spanish competition authority fines four saving banks for market sharing and coordination of commercial conditions (Caja Vital, BBK, Kutxa, CAN)
  20 janvier 2009
• The Austrian Supreme Court increases one of the fines imposed to banks by the NCA in the ATM agreement case from € 5 to 7 M (Europay Austria, "Bankomat-Vertrag")
  27 novembre 2007
• The Italian Antitrust Authority opens an investigation under Art. 81 EC for bid rigging in the banking sector (INAIL Affidamento Servizio di Cassa)
  10 juillet 2007
• The Danish Competition Authority condemns a cartel between seven local banks (Lokalbanksamarbejdet)
  20 juin 2007
• The Swedish Competition Authority uses for the first time the "fine order" procedure as parties accepted not to refute the existence of a cartel in the energy sector (Rundvirke Poles)
  22 septembre 2009
• A Dutch Court quashes the decision of the national competition authority in the mobile operators case for unsufficient motivation (KPN Mobile, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone Libertel...)
  16 février 2009
• The French Commercial Supreme Court rules that exchange of information between competitors in an oligopolistic market is not per se contrary to Art. 81 EC and national equivalent provision (Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR)
  5 février 2009
• The Paris Court of appeal upholds France’s highest antitrust fine ever and confirms a strict -yet not entirely clear- approach towards exchange of information between competitors in oligopoly markets (Bouygues Télécom, SFR, Orange France)
  24 janvier 2009
• The Hungarian Competition Office fines three IT companies for collusion in public procurement procedures (Synergon...)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Paris Court of Appeal confirms the NCA’s record fine on three mobile telephony operators for exchanging confidential information and maintaining market shares (Bouygues Télécoms, SFR, Orange France)
  22 juillet 2008
• The French Commercial Supreme Court rules that exchange of information is not prohibited per se and recalls that imposing fine in an oligopolistic market requires to demonstrate a concrete anticompetitive object or effect (Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR, “Mobile telephony case”)
  22 juillet 2008
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of the Italian Bank Association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  15 novembre 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority finds that the circular of a bank association, interpreting rules on unilateral unfavourable changes of banking contractual conditions, violates Art. 81 EC (Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
  18 mars 2009
• The Italian Competition Authority decides not to adopt an interim measure against some batteries smelters investigated for cartel conducts (COBAT and others)
  20 janvier 2009
• The Finnish Competition Authority grants for the first time immunity from fines for a cartel whistleblower (Oy Arwidson Ab, HL Group Oy, Koivunen Oy...)
  22 octobre 2006
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns factual resale price maintenance (Kemira)
  6 juillet 2010
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns collective RPM of publishers and bookstores (MKKE)
  6 juillet 2010
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns an RPM scheme concerning navigation devices and PDA software (Navi-Gate)
  28 juin 2010
• The Hungarian Competition Authority condemns an RPM scheme concerning GPS devices (LCP/Mitac)
  28 juin 2010
• The Croatian Competition Authority holds illegal minimum price fixing agreement among residential management service providers (Eki Inžinjering a. o.)
  19 mai 2010
• The Romanian Competition Authority releases its 2009 annual report
  19 mai 2010
• The UK Office of Fair Trading heavely fines price-fixing practices from supermarkets and tobacco firms in a decision which may be its largest ever combined fine (Imperial Tobacco, Gallaher and retailers)
  19 mai 2010
• The Spanish Competition Authority fines the five major producers of bath and shower gel for a price-fixing cartel in its first successful leniency case (Fabricantes de gel)
  21 avril 2010
• The Luxembourg Competition Council fines seven companies member of a cartel in the flooring industry
  21 avril 2010
• The Serbian Competition Authority advises the Government to review the list of medicines provided under the national health insurance scheme (Medicines provided under the national health insurance scheme)
  4 novembre 2009
• The Berlin Higher Regional Court rules on key issues of standing and standard of proof in cartel damages suits
  17 mars 2010
• The English High Court strikes out a representative claim brought on behalf of “all other direct or indirect purchasers of air freight services”, refusing to stretch the scope of the English civil procedure rules in order to encourage the bringing of private damages actions (Emerald Supplies & ANR / British Airways)
  4 juin 2009
• The English Court of Appeal overturns Competition Appeal Tribunal in a pro-defendant judgment on follow-on damages actions (Bcl Old Co. Ltd. / BASF)
  4 juin 2009
• The Hungarian Parliament adopts an amendment limiting the liability of leniency applicants and introducing new calculation of amount of damages
  21 mai 2009
• The German Higher Regional Court clarifies new German rules on private enforcement of competition law (Cement cartel)
  5 février 2009
• The Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court decided on passing on defence in the Vitamins cartel (Vitaminpreise)
  29 janvier 2009
• The German Mannheim Regional Court decided on the right to claim against a vertically integrated cartelist and the standard of proof for antitrust damages in a follow on-suit (Carbonless paper)
  29 janvier 2009
• The new Bulgarian Act on the Protection of Competition
  18 décembre 2008
• A French Court refuses to grant damages to alleged victim of the vitamin cartels (Juva/Hoffmann La Roche)
  24 avril 2007
• De facto class action for cartel damages in Germany ? A German Court rules on procedural key issues for cartel damages suits (Cartel Damage Claims SA)
  28 février 2007
• The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal decides for the first time on claims for damages for breach of Art. 81 EC under national competition provision (Vitamins)
  12 juin 2006
• The Serbian Competition Authority clarifies its rules on application of the leniency program
  9 décembre 2009