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by authority- Competition Tribunal (Hongkong), auf Antrag der Competition Commission €659,106 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €659,106 100 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | €659,106 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 0 | – |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
14 Jun 2023 three Hong Kong mail inserter suppliersMail inserter cartel: Tribunal imposes 5,579,000 HKD on three suppliers €659,106
On 14 June 2023 the Competition Tribunal (Hong Kong's specialist competition court), on a joint application with the Competition Commission (Hong Kong's competition authority), imposed pecuniary penalties on three suppliers of mail inserters of the same brand that had fixed prices, shared markets and rigged bids between April 2018 and January 2019 (breach of the First Conduct Rule). The brand manufacturer's two Hong Kong companies (which formerly traded under the brand name) pay 1,399,000 HKD together, the second supplier 3,372,000 HKD and the third supplier 808,000 HKD, 5,579,000 HKD in total; in addition each pays 476,101 HKD in investigation costs plus legal costs. It was the first case in which all parties under investigation cooperated with the authority under its cooperation policy already at the investigation stage; in return the Commission refrained from pursuing the employees involved.
Disclosing a cartel early and cooperating with the authority substantially reduces the penalty and can shield a company's own employees from personal enforcement action.
Price fixing, market sharing and bid rigging in sales
- Authority / court
- Competition Tribunal (Hongkong), auf Antrag der Competition Commission
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Competition Ordinance (Cap. 619), s. 6 (First Conduct Rule), s. 93 (pecuniary penalty), s. 96 (Ermittlungskosten)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation discounts of 25% (brand manufacturer, second supplier) and 28% (third supplier); liability and penalties agreed by consent.
- Published
- 15 Jun 2023
Original amount 5,579,000 HKD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 14 Jun 2023.
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 14 Jun 2025 · Direct link