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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
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- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) €31.3m 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €31.3m 100 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | €31.3m |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 0 | – |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
9 Feb 2023 four German carmakersAdBlue dosing agreement: fines for three German carmakers in Korea €31.3m
The KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea's competition authority) sanctioned an agreement reached in 2006 by the four German manufacturers to use a dosing strategy with lower AdBlue consumption in the software of their SCR exhaust after-treatment systems; in doing so they had blocked the development of more effective nitrogen oxide reduction and deprived buyers in Korea of the choice of cleaner diesel cars. In addition to cease-and-desist orders, it provisionally set fines totalling KRW 42,372 million (first manufacturer KRW 20,743 million, second manufacturer KRW 15,656 million, third manufacturer KRW 5,973 million; the breakdown shows no amount for the fourth manufacturer). According to the KFTC, it was its first action against an agreement in the field of research and development.
Even technical coordination in joint development bodies is a cartel if competitors use it to fix product characteristics such as environmental performance.
Cartel risks in joint development and standard-setting bodies
- Authority / court
- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 19 Abs. 1 Nr. 6 MRFTA a. F. (Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Automotive
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 9 Feb 2023
Original amount 42,372,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 9 Feb 2023.
- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), Veröffentlichung der Behörde (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 9 Feb 2025 · Direct link