The UK OFT proposes for the first time a settlement in order to cease information exchange and price-fixing (Independent Schools)

Jones, Alison

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9 Nov 2005

The UK OFT proposes for the first time a settlement in order to cease information exchange and price-fixing (Independent Schools)

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Press Release 214/05

United Kingdom Office of Fair Trading (OFT), 9 november 2005, Statement of objections, Independent schools

In recent years the Office of Fair Trading (the “OFT”) has been concerned about exchanges of information by UK independent schools. For some years it has been conducting an investigation into allegations of price fixing, through a voluntary exchange of information, by 50 independent schools with charitable status in breach of Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 (“CA”) (the equivalent of Article 81(1) EC). The schools being investigated have alleged, amongst other things, that the breach, if any, was an inadvertent technicality, since they were unaware that

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Alison Jones
King’s College (London)

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Alison Jones, The UK OFT proposes for the first time a settlement in order to cease information exchange and price-fixing (Independent Schools), 9 novembre 2005, e-Competitions November 2005, Art. N° 684

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