The UK Competition Authority launches criminal investigation in the automotive sector, promoting the Enterprise Act

Rouzier, Marie-Charlotte

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31 Jan 2010

The UK Competition Authority launches criminal investigation in the automotive sector, promoting the Enterprise Act

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UK Competition Authority, Investigation into automotive sector, CE/9229-09, Press release, February 2010

I. Legal background The UK criminalized competition law in 2002 by adopting the Enterprise Act, which came into force in June 2003. It set up a whole new framework to prosecute, on a criminal basis, the individuals responsible for the establishment and implementation of (of participating in) a hard-core cartel: the cartel offence [1]. The key element of the

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Marie-Charlotte Rouzier
Innovate Finance (London)

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Marie-Charlotte Rouzier, The UK Competition Authority launches criminal investigation in the automotive sector, promoting the Enterprise Act, 31 January 2010, e-Competitions February 2010, Art. N° 34780

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