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Automotive Exide, FET (inkl. Elettra), Rombat, EUROBAT (Clarios Kronzeuge) Clear all filters

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15 Dec 2025 Exide, FET (inkl. Elettra), Rombat, EUROBAT (Clarios Kronzeuge)EU: 72 million EUR against starter battery manufacturers and the association EUROBAT EU levelCartels and collusion €72m

From 2005 to 2017, the manufacturers of automotive starter batteries agreed, with the help of the association EUROBAT, to publish jointly calculated lead surcharges (EUROBAT premiums) and to use them in price negotiations with carmakers. Fines: Exide 30 million EUR, Rombat 20.218 million EUR, Elettra 15.594 million EUR, FET 6.11 million EUR, EUROBAT 125,000 EUR; Clarios escaped a fine as leniency applicant.

What organisations can take from it

Suppliers may pass on raw material surcharges individually, but must never fix them in an industry-wide coordinated manner via association indices.

Relevance to training and awareness

Joint raw material surcharges among competitors via association indices

Authority / court: Europäische Kommission
Area of law: Competition law · Cartels and collusion
Legal basis: Art. 101 AEUV, Art. 53 EWR-Abkommen
Action: Fine
Status of proceedings: unknown
Sector: Automotive
Mitigating circumstances: Leniency programme (Clarios 100 %, FET 50 %, Rombat 30 %); reduction for inability to pay for one company; payment in instalments

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Commission fines automotive starter battery manufacturers and association €72 million for participating in a cartel (IP/25/3042) Press release of an authority

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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