Leniency - Evidence: The French Competition Council recalls its position related to the admission and the value of the evidences in a leniency procedure (Cartel in the steel industry)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Conc. conc. dec. no. 08-D-32 of 16 December 2008 on practices implemented in the steel products trading sector Also in the steel trading case, the Competition Council was called upon to take a position on another leniency issue, that of the admissibility and probative value of the evidence produced by the beneficiary of this procedure. It is true that the documents and even more so the statements of leniency applicants are regularly the subject of debate, particularly under Community law, as to their sincerity and probative value. On the admissibility of the elements produced by the leniency beneficiary In the present case, three