On July 20th 2010, the European Commission has concluded its first settlement of a cartel case in a hybrid scenario, where both the settlement and ordinary procedures were followed. It has fined producers of animal feed phosphates a total of €175 647 000 for operating a cartel that lasted over thirty years. Animal feed phosphates [...]
The European Commission adopted yesterday a new Regulation that ‘block exempts’ distribution and supply agreements at different levels of the production and distribution chain. The existing Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation (VRBER) and accompanying Guidelines were 10 years old. The Regulation and accompanying Guidelines take into account the development, in the last 10 years, of [...]
A Study from a consultancy, Oxera, has been produced for the European Commission on the matter of quantifying damages for competition/antitrust infringements.
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