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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- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO) €5.37m 100 % · 3 cases
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €5.37m 100 % · 2 cases
- PAUPE HOLDING SA, Bitusag S.A., Bitusag Neuchâtel SA, Wyss Fils SA, Prodo SA, Duckert SA – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | – |
| 2024 | 1 | €5.37m |
| 2025 | 1 | – |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
3 cases
25 Aug 2025 PAUPE HOLDING SA, Bitusag S.A., Bitusag Neuchâtel SA, Wyss Fils SA, Prodo SA, Duckert SAWEKO fines road maintenance firms in Jura/Neuchâtel over bid rigging Fine
Regional suppliers of surface treatments and chip sealing in road maintenance colluded on bids and allocated territories. Switzerland's Competition Commission (Wettbewerbskommission, WEKO) imposed sanctions on Bitusag/Paupe (jointly and severally, CHF 640,000–990,000, exact amount redacted), Wyss Fils (CHF 44,000–74,000), Prodo (CHF 760) and Duckert (CHF 0) and approved amicable settlements; the investigation against Colas Suisse was discontinued.
Small regional road builders are also sanctioned – cover bids and territorial protection must disappear from corporate culture.
Cover bids and territorial agreements in regional road construction
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 3 i.V.m. Abs. 1 KG, Art. 49a Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Mitigating circumstances
- Amicable settlements; leniency programme (Duckert free of sanctions)
- Enduits superficiels et gravillonnage : Décision du 25 août 2025 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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21 May 2024 fourteen Swiss gravel and construction companiesWEKO fines a gravel pit and its shareholders CHF 5.3 million €5.37m
A gravel extraction joint venture, the largest gravel and landfill pit in its region, and its shareholders coordinated through the joint venture's board, granted the shareholders cheaper gravel prices and transport subsidies, undertook not to extract gravel themselves in the joint venture's area and for a time tied the dumping of excavated material to gravel purchases. The Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO, Swiss Competition Commission) imposed sanctions totalling CHF 5,303,750: CHF 3,131,100 on the joint venture, CHF 383,150 on a first shareholder group of three companies, CHF 304,150 on a second group of three companies, CHF 460,750 on a third group of two companies, CHF 242,500 on a gravel works, CHF 387,100 on a fourth group of two companies and CHF 395,000 on a fifth group of two companies, together with conduct requirements concerning the joint venture's board and management. With the exception of individual points, the ruling is under appeal before the Federal Administrative Court (as of December 2025).
Where competitors sit together on the board of a joint venture, clear information barriers are needed, or the board becomes a cartel platform.
Joint ventures between competitors: information exchange and collusion on the board
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 49a Abs. 1 i.V.m. Art. 5 Abs. 1, 3 und 4 KG; bei KAGA zusätzlich Art. 7 Abs. 1 i.V.m. Abs. 2 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Mitigating circumstances
- Several parties concluded amicable settlements with the WEKO secretariat, which WEKO approved.
- Published
- 27 Aug 2024
Original amount 5,303,750 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 21 May 2024.
- WEKO, Entscheide (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 21 May 2026 · Direct link
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3 Jul 2023 a Swiss landfill operatorWEKO sanctions landfill operator for abuse of a dominant position Fine
According to WEKO's findings, the operator of a landfill in the canton of Basel-Landschaft abused its dominant position (Art. 7 para. 2 lit. b KG (Swiss Cartel Act), discrimination against trading partners). The sanction is between CHF 762,048 and 1,143,072 (exact amount redacted in the published version); in addition, there are procedural costs of CHF 196,530.
Regional infrastructure such as landfills can also be dominant – prices and acceptance conditions must be non-discriminatory.
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 7 Abs. 1 und Abs. 2 lit. b KG, Art. 49a Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- WEKO, Entscheide (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 3 Jul 2025 · Direct link