Participation to the infringement : The Competition Council sanctions a cartel and specifies the conditions under which the participation of a meeting is sufficient to characterize the participation to an anticompetitive agreement (Sector of heating, sanitary, plumbing, air conditioning

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Pursuant to Decision No. 06-D-03 of March 9, 2006, the Board of the competition has uncovered and sanctioned some 70 companies specialized in the trade or manufacture of heating appliances, sanitary ceramics and taps, as well as 7 professional federations manufacturers, wholesalers and installers, for a cumulative amount of 26.5 million, for having implemented, between 1993 and 1998, a series of of horizontal and vertical agreements to squeeze out large areas of do-it-yourself (DIY), as well as installers' cooperatives, which have started to market, at low prices, sanitary-heating products from of 1992, in particular through the holding of anti-competitive