Compliance Radar
Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 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- Datatilsynet 2 cases 67 % · €1.87m
- Konkurransetilsynet 1 case 33 % · €421.7m
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies 1 case 33 % · €421.7m
- Elkjøp Nordic AS, Elkjøp Norge AS 1 case 33 % · €1.85m
- Lab Pharma AS 1 case 33 % · €18,745
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 1 | €421.7m |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 1 | €1.85m |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | €18,745 |
3 cases
12 Aug 2026 Lab Pharma ASLab Pharma AS: NOK 205,000 for threatening Datatilsynet staff €18,745
Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined the online dietary supplement retailer Lab Pharma AS NOK 205,000 for breaching its duty to cooperate with the supervisory authority (Art. 31 GDPR): the company had threatened case handlers with police reports and lawsuits in order to end the investigation of a complaint, and submitted requested documents late. The authority also ordered the company to delete the name and images of a former advertising partner (an influencer) from all its websites and to stop using her data for marketing until it can demonstrate a legal basis, as the underlying contract had already expired in March 2017.
Anyone who considers a supervisory order unlawful must use the available appeal routes – threats against case handlers and missed deadlines become a sanctionable breach in their own right.
Dealing with supervisory authorities and the duty to cooperate
- Authority / court
- Datatilsynet
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 31, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. f, g und i, Art. 83 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- Datatilsynet attributed the intentional conduct of the company's management to the company.
- Published
- 17 Aug 2026
Original amount 205,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Aug 2026.
- Datatilsynet: Overtredelsesgebyr til Lab Pharma AS (17.08.2026) Press release of an authority
- Datatilsynet, Vedtak om overtredelsesgebyr og pålegg om sletting og stans – Lab Pharma AS, 23/00435-62, 12.08.2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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1 Jun 2026 Elkjøp Nordic AS, Elkjøp Norge ASElkjøp: NOK 20m fine over invalid consent in customer club €1.85m
Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined Elkjøp Nordic AS and Elkjøp Norge AS NOK 20,000,000. Following an on-site inspection in June 2022, the authority found that consent for the customer club was neither informed nor specific nor freely given, that club data had been reused without a legal basis for the 'kundematch' (customer match) tool, that the lawfulness of so-called offline conversions had not been assessed and documented, and that rectification requests had not been handled within the deadlines. The decision was adopted under the cooperation mechanism with the supervisory authorities of Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Denmark; more than six million club members across the Nordic countries were affected.
Anyone who ties discounts to club membership must obtain separate, informed and freely given consent in advance for each marketing purpose and must not reuse club data for new purposes such as audience matching without assessment.
Valid consent in customer clubs and loyalty programmes
- Authority / court
- Datatilsynet
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- Art. 6 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 4 Nr. 11, Art. 6 Abs. 4, Art. 5 Abs. 2 i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 12 Abs. 3 DSGVO; Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. i DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Improvements made after the inspection, Datatilsynet's long case-handling time and the lack of evidence that sensitive data were processed; the amount is well below the starting point in the EDPB guidelines (0.4–0.8% of group turnover).
- Published
- 4 Jun 2026
Original amount 20,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Jun 2026.
- Datatilsynet: Overtredelsesgebyr til Elkjøp (04.06.2026) Press release of an authority
- Datatilsynet, Vedtak om overtredelsesgebyr – Kundeklubb og de registrertes rettigheter, 22/00049-13, 01.06.2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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21 Aug 2024 three Norwegian grocery chainsThree Norwegian grocery chains: NOK 4.93bn over price-hunter collaboration €421.7m
Konkurransetilsynet (Norwegian Competition Authority) fined Norway's three largest grocery chains a total of NOK 4,926,981,000: the first chain NOK 2,313,418,000, the second NOK 1,321,024,000, and the third chain and its parent company jointly and severally NOK 1,292,539,000. From January 2011 until at least April 2018, the chains had granted each other's price collectors ('prisjegere') extensive access to their stores, which increased price transparency between the competitors and weakened price competition; the authority also ordered the collaboration to end. The Konkurranseklagenemnda (Competition Appeals Tribunal) upheld the decision on 21 August 2025; according to the courts' official hearing list, Gulating lagmannsrett (Gulating Court of Appeal) will hear an action by the second chain challenging the validity of that ruling from 12 October 2026. The decision is not final.
Even seemingly harmless industry arrangements, such as mutual access for price collection, can amount to an anticompetitive exchange of information and trigger fines running into billions.
Exchange of information between competitors
- Authority / court
- Konkurransetilsynet
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 10 konkurranseloven, Art. 53 EWR-Abkommen; §§ 12 und 29 konkurranseloven; § 6 Abs. 1 EØS-konkurranseloven
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 21 Aug 2024
Original amount 4,926,981,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 21 Aug 2024.
- Konkurransetilsynet, Entscheidungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
- Norges domstoler, Terminliste (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 21 Aug 2026 · Direct link