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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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Where?
by authority- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) €92.9m 100 % · 2 cases
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Ford, Volkswagen, BMW u. a. (10 Fahrzeughersteller sowie die Verbände ACEA und SMMT) €92.9m 100 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €34,779 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €34,779 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 1 | €92.9m |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
2 cases
1 Apr 2025 Ford, Volkswagen, BMW u. a. (10 Fahrzeughersteller sowie die Verbände ACEA und SMMT)CMA: GBP 77.7m fine for carmakers over recycling and advertising collusion €92.9m
The CMA found two cartel infringements: from 2002 to 2017 the manufacturers had agreed not to advertise recyclability rates above the statutory minimum of 85%, and from 2004 to 2018 eight of them, later joined by others, had operated a buyers' cartel agreeing not to pay companies that recycle end-of-life vehicles. Under settlement, fines totalling GBP 77,688,917 were imposed: Ford 18,541,929, Volkswagen 14,755,900, BMW 11,060,925, Nissan/Renault 9,979,826 jointly plus 2,800,646 for Nissan alone, Peugeot Citroën/Stellantis 5,189,948, Vauxhall/Opel (with General Motors and Stellantis as former and current owners) 5,171,248 in total, Jaguar Land Rover 4,626,404, Toyota 4,502,760, Mitsubishi 898,531, ACEA 114,000 and SMMT 46,800 GBP. Mercedes-Benz had reported the cartel and received full immunity; the European Commission adopted its own decision for the EU on the same day.
Agreements on green advertising or purchasing terms reached in trade association meetings are still cartels – sustainability goals do not justify coordination between competitors.
Sustainability agreements and buyers' cartels in trade association meetings
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Chapter I prohibition, section 2(1) Competition Act 1998
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Automotive
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Mitigating circumstances
- 20% settlement discount for all addressees; additional leniency reductions for Peugeot Citroën and Vauxhall/Opel together with their current and former owners Stellantis and General Motors (45%), the SMMT (35%) and Mitsubishi (25%); full immunity for Mercedes-Benz as the first to report.
- Published
- 1 Apr 2025
Original amount 77,688,917 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Apr 2025.
- CMA case page: Anti-competitive conduct in relation to vehicle recycling and advertising of recycling-related information Enforcement database of an authority
- CMA press release: Car industry settles competition law case (1 April 2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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8 Dec 2022 a German car manufacturerCMA: penalty against German car manufacturer for incomplete response to an information request €34,779
In the competition proceedings concerning end-of-life vehicle recycling, the group did not fully respond to a formal information request from the CMA and disputed its jurisdiction. The CMA imposed a fixed penalty of 30,000 GBP and a daily penalty of 15,000 GBP until compliance.
Respond to information requests from competition authorities across the group, on time and in full – a jurisdictional dispute does not protect against periodic penalties.
Handling official information requests within a group
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Competition Act 1998 (Pflicht zur Beantwortung förmlicher Auskunftsverlangen)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Automotive
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 8 Dec 2022
Original amount 30,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Dec 2022.
- CMA, Fallübersicht (Entscheidung 2022) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 8 Dec 2024 · Direct link