Prescription: The CFI rules on situations where the power to impose a fine remains devoid of consequence, due to the lack of timely execution (Ferriere Nord)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CFI, 27 September 2006, Ferriere Nord v. Commission, Case T-153/04 Is it useful to proclaim its willingness to increase the fines imposed on companies which violate the Community competition rules if at the same time there is a delay in recovering the product? Such negligence is probably not too frequent, and it is to be hoped that the Ferriere judgment, in which the administration was condemned by the court on the grounds that it persisted in recovering the sum owed by an undertaking convicted of participating in a cartel when it was far too