The Mauritius Competition Commission modifies its leniency programme and extends it to initiators

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Press Release, Competition Commission of Mauritius, CCM’S enhancement of its leniency programme to fight cartels more effectively, 23 January 2018

ENFORCEMENT ALERT: MU COMPETITION COMMISSION TO PERMIT CARTEL INITIATORS TO SEEK LENIENCY* Competition Commission of Mauritius (CCM) has announced changes to its leniency programme. Though the CCM did have a functioning leniency programme in place since its inception in 2009, the it was often criticised as being inadequate. Competition lawyer John Oxenham notes that under the existing programme, firms which were found to be cartel ‘initiators’ (an enterprise which has coerced others into a collusive agreement) did not

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