The Czech Competition Authority reaches settlement with detergent producers in a cartel case while implementing its leniency programme (Henkel / Procter & Gamble / Rakona / Reckitt Benckiser)

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Office for the Protection of Economic Competition (Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže), 28 April 2011, HENKEL ČR, spol. s r.o., Procter & Gamble – Rakona, s.r.o. and Reckitt Benckiser, spol. s r.o. , not yet published
On 10 February 2011, the Czech Competition Authority (the “Competition Authority”) adopted a cartel settlement decision finding that the local subsidiaries of the Henkel, Procter & Gamble and Reckitt Benckiser groups (the “Companies”) had participated in a cartel in respect of the sale of detergents, fabric softeners and washing-up liquids (the “Decision”). The Competition Authority imposed fines in the aggregate amount of CZK 29.274 million (approximately EUR 1.214 million). Henkel was not fined as it was granted full immunity under the Competition Authority’s Leniency Programme for revealing the existence of the cartel to the

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