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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 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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by company- Eni S.p.A., Kuwait Petroleum Italia S.p.A. (Q8), Italiana Petroli S.p.A. (IP) u. a. (6 Unternehmen) €936.7m 65 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €263.7m 18 % · 14 cases
- TotalEnergies Marketing France, Rubis Énergie, Rubis Terminal, EG Retail €187.5m 13 % · 1 case
- Repsol Soluciones Energéticas (vormals Repsol Comercial de Productos Petrolíferos), Solred, Campsa Estaciones de Servicio u. a. (5 Gesellschaften) €20.5m 1 % · 1 case
- Landsvirkjun €9.79m 1 % · 1 case
- Saubermacher Dienstleistungs-Aktiengesellschaft, Trüger Recycling- und Transport-GesmbH, pink robin gmbh €7.09m 0 % · 1 case
- XCL Resources Holdings LLC, Verdun Oil Company II LLC, EP Energy LLC €5.39m 0 % · 1 case
- Comércio de Combustíveis Stang Ltda., Pato Comércio de Combustíveis Ltda. u. a. (3 Unternehmen) €2.63m 0 % · 1 case
- RASEMA s.r.o.; M – D – J, spol. s.r.o.; SIMA plus Krompachy, s.r.o.; BarCom spol. s.r.o. €1.1m 0 % · 1 case
- UAB „Emsi“ €1.02m 0 % · 1 case
- 7 more€546,256
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | €42.7m |
| 2023 | 5 | €174.9m |
| 2024 | 4 | €53.2m |
| 2025 | 10 | €1.14bn |
| 2026 | 5 | €24.5m |
30 cases
24 Sep 2026 Kalibrate Canada (Tochter der Kalibrate Technologies Ltd.)Canada: Kalibrate must stop sharing retailer-specific petrol station data Order
Kalibrate's "Market Intelligence" product passed on retailer-specific sales data from petrol stations that allowed conclusions to be drawn about competitors and could facilitate coordinated pricing behaviour. In an agreement registered with the Competition Tribunal, Kalibrate undertakes to supply only aggregated and time-delayed data – the first case under the reformed abuse of dominance rules.
Providers of market and price data must ensure that their products do not disseminate individualised competitor data.
- Authority / court
- Competition Bureau Canada (Consent Agreement beim Competition Tribunal)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Abuse-of-dominance-Bestimmungen des Competition Act (Fassung 2023)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 24 Sep 2026
- Competition Bureau secures agreement with Kalibrate to protect competition in the retail gas industry Press release of an authority
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13 May 2026 Comércio de Combustíveis Stang Ltda., Pato Comércio de Combustíveis Ltda. u. a. (3 Unternehmen)CADE: fuel cartel in Coronel Vivida – fines cut to BRL 15.1m on embargos €2.63m
The CADE Tribunal convicted three petrol station companies because in 2017 they had divided the lots of municipal fuel tenders in Coronel Vivida (Paraná) among themselves in advance and had also coordinated retail pump prices. The fines on the companies initially totalled 43,953,905.42 BRL (Comércio de Combustíveis Stang 25,801,726.15; a further petrol station company 9,406,784.68; Pato Comércio de Combustíveis 8,745,394.59 BRL). On motions for clarification (embargos) the Tribunal reduced, on 1 July 2026, the fines on Stang to 4,615,849.76 BRL and on Pato to 1,090,682.28 BRL owing to a subsequently arising fact relevant to the calculation, leaving 15,113,316.72 BRL. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
Dividing lots in public tenders is a cartel infringement carrying heavy fines, even in small municipal procurement.
Division of tender lots between competitors
- Authority / court
- Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), Tribunal Administrativo
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Lei nº 12.529/2011; Art. 38 VI (Handelsverbot für natürliche Personen)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 13 May 2026
Original amount 15,113,316.72 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 13 May 2026.
- Diário Oficial da União, 22.05.2026, Seção 1, S. 54: Ata da 265ª Sessão Ordinária de Julgamento (13.05.2026), PA nº 08700.002545/2023-70 Official register or notice
- Diário Oficial da União, 08.07.2026, Seção 1, S. 132: Ata da 268ª Sessão Ordinária de Julgamento (01.07.2026), Embargos – Herabsetzung Official register or notice
- CADE, 13.05.2026: Cade condena empresas e empresários por cartel de combustíveis em Coronel Vivida/PR Press release of an authority
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3 Mar 2026 Killer GmbH & Co KG, Killer GmbHWaste cartel: €278,000 fine on waste firm Killer despite leniency status €278,000
The Kartellgericht (Cartel Court) fined Killer GmbH & Co KG and Killer GmbH allegedly 278,000 EUR for taking part in the nationwide waste management cartel from July 2002 to March 2021, mainly in Lower and Upper Austria and occasionally in Tyrol. The participants fixed prices, shared territories and customers and exchanged competitively sensitive information, including in tenders for waste collection. The fine was reduced because of leniency status and the consensual termination of the proceedings.
A leniency application made only after a dawn raid can reduce a fine but will not necessarily waive it; companies should investigate suspicions internally at an early stage.
Territorial and customer allocation in regional markets
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht (Antrag der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 1 Abs. 1 KartG und Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV; § 29 Abs. 1 Z 1 lit. a und d KartG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Reduction for cooperation under the leniency programme and the consensual termination of the proceedings.
- Published
- 15 Sep 2026
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29 Jan 2026 RASEMA s.r.o.; M – D – J, spol. s.r.o.; SIMA plus Krompachy, s.r.o.; BarCom spol. s.r.o.Photovoltaic tender: 1.1 million EUR – the contracting entity was also a cartel member €1.1m
In a tender for industrial photovoltaic installations that was to be financed from EU Structural Funds, three bidders coordinated their bids so that a pre-selected bidder would win; the contracting entity BarCom acted as facilitator. The Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, PMÚ SR) imposed a total of 1,098,200 EUR and three-year procurement bans on all four; the EU funding was refused because of the indications of competition infringements, and the collusion was proven by e-mails secured during the inspection.
A contracting entity that determines the winner of a funded tender in advance is itself liable under competition law and additionally risks losing the funding.
Collusion in funded procurement
- Authority / court
- Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (PMÚ SR)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Slowakisches Wettbewerbsschutzgesetz (Submissionsabsprache)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 11 Feb 2026
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28 Jan 2026 Repsol Soluciones Energéticas (vormals Repsol Comercial de Productos Petrolíferos), Solred, Campsa Estaciones de Servicio u. a. (5 Gesellschaften)CNMC: €20.5m fine and procurement ban for Repsol over margin squeeze €20.5m
The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC, Spanish competition and markets authority) imposed a fine of 20,500,000 EUR on Repsol group companies, for which Repsol S.A. and Repsol Customer Centric are also jointly and severally liable as parent companies: between April and December 2022 Repsol used its dominant position in the wholesale supply of motor fuels to service stations to squeeze the diesel margins of independent stations by raising wholesale prices while granting additional discounts to professional drivers at its own stations. In addition, three companies are barred for six months from public tenders for the supply of diesel fuel.
Vertically integrated dominant firms must set wholesale and retail prices so that equally efficient competitors at the downstream level can remain viable.
Margin squeeze by vertically integrated undertakings
- Authority / court
- Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 2 und Art. 62.4.b) Ley 15/2007 de Defensa de la Competencia; Art. 102 AEUV; Vergabeverbot nach Art. 71.1.b) Ley 9/2017 de Contratos del Sector Público
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 3 Feb 2026
- CNMC, Resolución S/0011/22 DISTRIBUCIÓN HIDROCARBUROS (28.01.2026) Decision of an authority
- CNMC Expediente S/0011/22 - DISTRIBUCION HIDROCARBUROS Enforcement database of an authority
- La CNMC multa con 20,5 millones a varias empresas del Grupo Repsol y les prohíbe participar en contratos públicos Press release of an authority
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1 Dec 2025 SUROVINA d.o.o.; SALOMON d.o.o.; RECIKEL d.o.o.; DINOS d.o.o.Packaging waste: AVK finds market sharing by four waste management companies Order
In the reopened proceedings, the Javna agencija Republike Slovenije za varstvo konkurence (Slovenian Competition Protection Agency, AVK) found that the companies had shared the market for take-back schemes for packaging waste and agreed to stop providing their services to a competitor (now Interzero). The authority ordered immediate termination; the decision is not final, and an earlier decision from 2019 in the same matter is partly final.
An agreement to stop supplying a common competitor is a cartel – even in regulated waste management markets.
Boycott and market-sharing agreements
- Authority / court
- Javna agencija Republike Slovenije za varstvo konkurence (AVK)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 6 ZPOmK-1, Art. 101 AEUV
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 16 Apr 2026
- Izrek odločbe z dne 1. 12. 2025 (3062-5/2017) Decision of an authority
- AVK – Odločitve agencije Enforcement database of an authority
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21 Nov 2025 Rethmann SE & Co. KG (Rethmann-Gruppe, u. a. Remondis)Bundeskartellamt: Rethmann Group must notify future acquisitions for three years Order
Applying Section 32f(2) of the German Competition Act (GWB) for the first time, the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) required Rethmann SE & Co. KG and its affiliated companies (the Rethmann Group, which includes Remondis) to notify for three years before completion even mergers below the general turnover thresholds, where the target generates more than 1 million EUR in domestic turnover and at least 100,000 EUR in the collection of non-hazardous municipal waste or the processing of hollow glass. The decision builds on the findings of the sector inquiry into municipal waste completed at the end of 2023; it was not yet final when announced.
Market leaders in regionally defined markets must expect that even small acquisitions below the turnover thresholds may become notifiable.
Merger control obligations for small acquisitions
- Authority / court
- Bundeskartellamt
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- § 32f Abs. 2 GWB (Az. B5-31/24)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 24 Nov 2025
- Bundeskartellamt verpflichtet Rethmann-Gruppe zur Anmeldung künftiger Zusammenschlüsse (24.11.2025) Press release of an authority
- Bundeskartellamt, Beschluss B5-31/24 vom 21.11.2025 (Verfügung gem. § 32f Abs. 2 GWB, öffentliche Version) Decision of an authority
- Bundeskartellamt: Veröffentlichte Entscheidung – Anmeldeverpflichtung der Rethmann-Gruppe nach § 32f Abs. 2 GWB (Entscheidung vom 21.11.2025) Press release of an authority
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17 Nov 2025 TotalEnergies Marketing France, Rubis Énergie, Rubis Terminal, EG RetailFrance: 187.5 million EUR against fuel suppliers over depot agreement in Corsica €187.5m
Between 2016 and 2023, the shareholders of the Corsican fuel storage company DPLC made the use of the depots conditional on a shareholding by means of a contractual clause; non-shareholders had to buy their fuel from their competitors, which could push up pump prices in Corsica (decision 25-D-07). Fines: TotalEnergies Marketing France 115.82 million EUR, Rubis 64.67 million EUR, EG Retail 7 million EUR.
Shared infrastructure of competitors must be open to third parties on fair terms – shareholder agreements should be reviewed under competition law.
Joint ventures of competitors and access conditions for third parties
- Authority / court
- Autorité de la concurrence
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. L.420-1 Code de commerce, Art. 101 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 17 Nov 2025
- Carburants en Corse : l'Autorité de la concurrence inflige une sanction de 187,5 millions d'euros Press release of an authority
- Décision 25-D-07 relative à des pratiques mises en œuvre dans le secteur de l'approvisionnement, du stockage et de la distribution des carburants en Corse Decision of an authority
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6 Nov 2025 UAB „Emsi“Emsi took over four filling stations without merger clearance – 1.02 million EUR €1.02m
In 2024, Emsi acquired control of four filling stations in Kaunas, Vilnius and Maišiagala through leases (via an affiliated company) and purchases without obtaining the required clearances, ignoring previous notices from the Konkurencijos taryba (Lithuanian Competition Council). For two concentrations, fines of 545,160 EUR and 477,010 EUR were imposed, a total of 1,022,170 EUR, together with an obligation to remedy the situation within three months. Source: archived copy of the press release.
Even the long-term lease of individual sites may require notification – if in doubt, ask the authority beforehand.
Merger control also for leases of individual sites
- Authority / court
- Konkurencijos taryba (Litauischer Wettbewerbsrat)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Konkurencijos įstatymas (Anmelde- und Genehmigungspflicht für Zusammenschlüsse)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 6 Nov 2025
- Konkurencijos taryba, Pranešimas 2025-11-06 (Archivkopie web.archive.org von kt.gov.lt) Press release of an authority
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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 €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.
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.
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
- AGCM, Provvedimento I864 (Adunanza 23.09.2025), Chiusura istruttoria e sanzioni Decision of an authority
- AGCM, Comunicato stampa 26.09.2025: I864 – Sanzione per oltre 936 milioni complessivi a Eni, Esso, Ip, Q8, Saras e Tamoil Press release of an authority
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18 Aug 2025 LandsvirkjunIceland: Landsvirkjun fined 1.4 billion ISK for margin squeeze €9.79m
Samkeppniseftirlitið (Icelandic Competition Authority) found that the dominant electricity producer Landsvirkjun, from 2017 to 2021, in many cases bid lower in the tenders of grid operator Landsnet for transmission losses than the price at which it sold wholesale electricity to competitors, so that they could only keep up at a loss (margin squeeze). The authority classified this as an intentional abuse of a dominant position and imposed a fine of 1,400,000,000 ISK; aggravating factors were the long duration and the fact that the conduct increased after Landsvirkjun knew of the investigation.
A dominant company that also supplies its competitors must price its own offers so that these customers can still compete profitably on the downstream market.
Abuse of market power: margin squeeze against competitors who are also customers
- Authority / court
- Samkeppniseftirlitið
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 11 Samkeppnislög Nr. 44/2005 (isländisches Wettbewerbsgesetz) und Art. 54 EWR-Abkommen; Geldbuße nach Art. 37 Samkeppnislög
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 18 Aug 2025
Original amount 1,400,000,000 ISK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Aug 2025.
- Samkeppniseftirlitið: Ákvörðun nr. 29/2025 – Ólögmætur verðþrýstingur Landsvirkjunar á raforkumarkaði (18. ágúst 2025) Decision of an authority
- Samkeppniseftirlitið: Ákvörðun 29/2025 (Übersichtsseite mit Datum und Unternehmen) Decision of an authority
- Samkeppniseftirlitið: Landsvirkjun sektuð vegna alvarlegra brota á samkeppnislögum (18. ágúst 2025) Press release of an authority
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26 Jun 2025 SIA "Mārupes komunālie pakalpojumi"Water utility Mārupes komunālie pakalpojumi abuses monopoly over additional meters €78,056
From January 2022, by internal instruction, the municipal water utility reserved to itself the installation of additional water meters (for example for garden water), thereby excluding other providers; customers also had to pay for sewerage they did not use. The Konkurences padome (Latvian Competition Council) found an abuse of a dominant position, imposed 78,055.79 EUR and ordered remedies.
Municipal utilities are also subject to competition law – internal instructions that foreclose neighbouring markets are risky.
- Authority / court
- Konkurences padome (Lettischer Wettbewerbsrat)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 13 Konkurences likums
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 9 Jul 2025
- Konkurences padome soda SIA „Mārupes komunālie pakalpojumi“ (09.07.2025) Press release of an authority
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24 Jun 2025 Brantner Fatra, s.r.o.Brantner Fatra: 180,200 EUR for excessive landfill prices charged to two towns upheld €180,200
In 2019–2022, the waste management company charged the towns of Martin and Vrútky significantly higher prices for landfilling residual waste than other municipalities without objective justification, although they had no alternative. The Council of the Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, PMÚ SR) upheld the fine of 180,200 EUR; the decision became final on 3 July 2025.
Suppliers without a local alternative must be able to justify and document price differences between customers on objective grounds.
- Authority / court
- Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (PMÚ SR)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Slowakisches Wettbewerbsschutzgesetz (Missbrauch einer marktbeherrschenden Stellung)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 9 Jul 2025
- Rada PMÚ potvrdila pokutu pre spoločnosť Brantner Fatra za zneužívanie dominantného postavenia Press release of an authority
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24 Jun 2025 Slovenská asociácia palivového priemyslu a obchoduFirst labour market cartel: fuel association sanctioned for no-poach rule €10,000
In a ‘code of ethics’, the industry association obliged its members not to poach each other’s employees. In its first decision on labour market cartels, the Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, PMÚ SR) imposed a symbolic fine of 10,000 EUR (first instance) as a warning to business.
No-poach agreements between competitors are cartels – HR departments and associations should review existing codes.
No-poach agreements and HR departments
- Authority / court
- Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (PMÚ SR)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Slowakisches Wettbewerbsschutzgesetz (Beschluss einer Unternehmensvereinigung)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 2 Jul 2025
- KARTELY: PMÚ uložil prvú pokutu za kartelovú dohodu na trhu práce Press release of an authority
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7 Jan 2025 XCL Resources Holdings LLC, Verdun Oil Company II LLC, EP Energy LLCFTC: record penalty of 5.6 million USD for gun-jumping in oil producer acquisition €5.39m
During the HSR waiting period for the 1.4 billion USD acquisition of EP Energy, XCL and Verdun already took control of day-to-day operations: they halted drilling projects, managed customer contracts in Utah and coordinated prices in Texas (94 days). In a settlement filed by the DOJ on behalf of the FTC, the companies agreed to a civil penalty of 5.6 million USD – the highest ever for gun-jumping in the US; court approval under the Tunney Act was still pending at the time of publication.
Until clearance, the buyer must not exert any influence on the target company's operations – integration teams need clear gun-jumping rules.
Standstill obligation before clearance (gun-jumping) in integration planning
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (Klage durch das U.S. Department of Justice)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 7 Jan 2025
Original amount 5,600,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 7 Jan 2025.
- Oil Companies to Pay Record FTC Gun-Jumping Fine for Antitrust Law Violation Press release of an authority
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29 Nov 2024 Saubermacher Dienstleistungs-Aktiengesellschaft, Trüger Recycling- und Transport-GesmbH, pink robin gmbhWaste cartel: €7.085m fine on Saubermacher, Trüger and pink robin €7.09m
The Kartellgericht (Cartel Court) fined Saubermacher Dienstleistungs-Aktiengesellschaft, Trüger Recycling- und Transport-GesmbH and pink robin gmbh 7.085 million EUR for taking part in a nationwide cartel in waste collection (July 2002 to March 2021). The participants fixed prices, shared markets and exchanged information on public and private tenders; the three companies' periods of involvement differed in length. Starting from 15.58 million EUR, the Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde (BWB, Federal Competition Authority) granted a reduction for the consensual termination of the proceedings.
Tacitly leaving each other's home territories alone (home-market principle) is a hardcore restriction and is punished like an express agreement.
Market sharing and price fixing between competitors
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht (Antrag der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 1 Abs. 1 KartG und Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV; § 29 Z 1 lit. a und d KartG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Reduction for the consensual termination of the proceedings (starting amount 15.58 million EUR).
- Published
- 8 May 2026
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7 Oct 2024 an Estonian waste management companyWaste management company must reduce excessive charges for moving waste containers Order
In 17 municipalities and towns with organised waste collection (16 price lists), an Estonian waste management company charged 8.33 to 20 EUR net per occasion for manually fetching containers over distances of 10 to 30 metres. The Estonian Competition Authority (Konkurentsiamet) considered this an abuse of a dominant position through excessively high prices and ordered the prices to be reduced to cost plus a reasonable profit by 31 October 2024.
Companies with exclusive waste collection rights in an area must also price additional services on a cost basis.
- Authority / court
- Konkurentsiamet (Estnische Wettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- § 16 Nr. 1, § 61¹ KonkS; § 28 Abs. 1 KorS
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Konkurentsiamet, Wettbewerbsfälle (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
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28 May 2024 a Scottish offshore wind farm companyOfgem: offshore wind farm pays GBP 33.14m over excessive constraint bids €39m
The operator of the offshore wind farm accepted that it had breached the Transmission Constraint Licence Condition by charging excessive prices in the balancing mechanism to reduce its output during grid constraints, thereby pushing up costs for consumers. Instead of a formal investigation, it paid GBP 33.14m into Ofgem's redress fund and changed its bid pricing policy; in its own view the breach was unintentional.
A generator facing little competition during grid constraints must not exploit this with excessive prices – and must review and document the compliance of its bids.
Pricing when holding market power in constraint situations
- Authority / court
- Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Condition 20A Electricity Generation Standard Licence Conditions (Transmission Constraint Licence Condition)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Mitigating circumstances
- Admission, full cooperation and immediate change to its bid pricing policy; closed without a formal investigation.
- Published
- 28 May 2024
Original amount 33,140,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 May 2024.
- Ofgem, Bußgelder und Redress-Zahlungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
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21 Feb 2024 four Slovak electrical engineering and energy construction companiesPMÚ: EUR 7.2m fines and public procurement bans for bid rigging on a substation tender €7.17m
The Council of the Slovak competition authority PMÚ (Antimonopoly Office) sanctioned bid rigging in the tender of the transmission system operator for the conversion of the 400 kV Podunajské Biskupice substation with fines totalling 7,165,100 EUR: 4,436,700 EUR, 1,792,500 EUR, 776,200 EUR and 159,700 EUR on the four companies. The first three companies were also excluded from public procurement for three years. The first-instance decision of 11 September 2023 had provided for a total of 7,233,751 EUR and a one-year ban for the fourth company; proceedings against two further companies were discontinued.
Coordinated bids in public tenders cost not only a fine but also access to public contracts for years.
Bid rigging in public tenders
- Authority / court
- Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (PMÚ SR), Rada úradu
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 4 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Abs. 4 lit. a, c und f, § 38 Abs. 1, § 38e, § 38h Zákon č. 136/2001 Z. z. (Fassung bis 26. 12. 2016); Art. 101 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 14 Mar 2024
- PMÚ SR, Startseite mit Meldungen (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
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14 Dec 2023 a Greek oil companyGreece: EUR 9.2 million fine on an oil company for obstructing a dawn raid €9.2m
During an unannounced inspection as part of an investigation into the fuel market, a Greek oil company, according to the decision of the Hellenic Competition Commission, did not actively cooperate but caused obstacles and delays and did not ensure the integrity and availability of the business records. The Commission fined the company EUR 9,200,000.
A dawn-raid protocol with clear responsibilities and retention rules prevents non-cooperation from costing more than the underlying allegation.
Conduct during dawn raids and preservation of records
- Authority / court
- Επιτροπή Ανταγωνισμού (Hellenic Competition Commission)
- Area of law
- Competition law
- Legal basis
- Art. 39 Abs. 5 ν. 3959/2011
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
- Published
- 30 Sep 2024
- Epitropi Antagonismou, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
- Epitropi Antagonismou, Entscheidungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
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