CASE COMMENTS: ANTICOMPETITIVE PRACTICES - DECISION OF THE COMMISSION - CUMULATIVE REDUCTION OF FINE - LENIENCY - SETTLEMENT

Reduction of fine: The Commission applies without problem cumulative reductions of fines through leniency and settlement (refrigerant compressors case)

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Commission européenne, 7 décembre 2011, COMP/39.600, relative à une procédure d’application de l’article 101 du traité et de l’article 53 de l’accord EEE, dite affaire des compresseurs frigorifiques

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The European Commission sanctioned on the same day, 7 December 2011, a agreement between producers of household refrigeration compressors and commercial products used in refrigerators, freezers, freezers, and vending machines and ice cream preservatives for an amount 161 million in fines: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1511&format=HTML&aged=0&language=FR&guiLanguage=en This case illustrates, incidentally, the divergent practices of the European Commission and the Competition Authority, in the case of

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