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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.

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€936.7mTotal of monetary amounts
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23 Sep 2025 Eni S.p.A., Kuwait Petroleum Italia S.p.A. (Q8), Italiana Petroli S.p.A. (IP) u. a. (6 Unternehmen)Fuel cartel: AGCM fines Eni, Q8, IP and three others a total of €936.7m ItalyCartels and collusion €936.7m

According to the AGCM, Eni, Kuwait Petroleum Italia (Q8), Italiana Petroli (IP), Esso Italiana, Tamoil Italia and Saras raised the price component for blending biofuels (the "componente bio") simultaneously and in a coordinated manner from 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2023; price information in the trade publication Staffetta Quotidiana, among other things, served to stabilise the arrangement. The fines total 936,659,087 EUR: Eni 336,214,660, Kuwait Petroleum Italia 172,592,363, Italiana Petroli 163,669,804, Esso Italiana 129,363,561, Tamoil Italia 91,029,755 and Saras 43,788,944 EUR. Eni's basic amount was increased by 10–15% for its leading role in initiating and monitoring the coordination.

What organisations can take from it

A competition compliance programme only reduces a fine if it is effectively implemented and demonstrated in good time, and public price information can itself sustain a cartel.

Relevance to training and awareness

Competition law: coordinated price increases and price signalling via trade media

Authority / court
Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
Area of law
Competition law · Cartels and collusion
Legal basis
Art. 101 AEUV; Art. 15 Legge n. 287/1990
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Energy and utilities
Mitigating circumstances
Saras received a reduction of 5–10% because it submitted its antitrust compliance programme in January 2024, which the AGCM regarded as in good time; the AGCM could no longer take into account the programmes that Eni and IP only submitted in June 2025.
Published
26 Sep 2025

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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