Leniency: The French Competition Council applies for the third time the leniency procedure and sanctions a price cartel in the sector of plywood manufacturing (UPM Kymmene Wood)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a very interesting decision No. 08-D-12 of May 21, 2008, the Permanent Commission of the Competition Council has come to sanction 6 plywood manufacturers for a price cartel for a total of 8 million euros. In doing so, the Board is applying for third time, after the cartel of doors and the moving cartel, of its leniency program. One of the cartelists, UPM Kymmene Company Corporation, terminated the agreement in which it participated in May 2004. The The Competition Council has taken up the practices denounced and has launched obviously, as part of broader investigations coordinated by European Commission of various operations of visits and seizures in