Settlement : The European Commission fines a parking heaters producer €68 million in cartel "settlement" (Eberspächer)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Even if it bears its name badly, since it proceeds more, if not exclusively, from the non-contestation of grievances, the so-called "settlement" procedure is nonetheless a certain success, if not a sure success. As a reminder, this procedure was introduced by the Commission in 2008 (see Commission Regulation (EC) No 622/2008 of 30 June 2008 amending Regulation No 773/2004, as regards the conduct of settlement procedures in cartel cases (OJ L 171, p. 3)), and the details of its implementation were set out in a Commission Notice also issued in 2008 (see Commission Regulation (EC) No 622/2008 of 30 June 2008 amending Regulation No 773/2004, as regards the conduct