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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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by company- Schneider Electric; Legrand; Rexel; Sonepar €470m 65 % · 1 case
- ELKOND HHK, VUKI, Prysmian, NKT, KABEX u. a. (Kabelkartell, 9 Unternehmen und ein Verband) €97.4m 14 % · 1 case
- CNH Industrial Polska sp. z o.o., Raitech sp. z o.o., PHU Perkoz sp. z o.o. u. a. (8 Unternehmen) €80.1m 11 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €45.5m 6 % · 9 cases
- IDEMIA France (vormals Oberthur Technologies) €15.5m 2 % · 1 case
- Nexans France, Nexans SA; Sonepar-Gruppe (Sonepar France Distribution u. a.) €6.5m 1 % · 1 case
- Sennheiser electronic SE & Co KG, Sonova AG €634,000 0 % · 1 case
- VARTA AG €620,000 0 % · 1 case
- KLUBB France SAS €558,024 0 % · 1 case
- CalPlus GmbH, Elektronik-Kontor Messtechnik GmbH, TVW Meßtechnik GmbH €453,000 0 % · 1 case
- 3 more€950,000
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €15.9m |
| 2023 | 4 | €23.7m |
| 2024 | 6 | €476.1m |
| 2025 | 8 | €97.3m |
| 2026 | 5 | €105.4m |
24 cases
27 Jul 2026 Dairymaster Unlimited Company€400,000 fine for Dairymaster after fatal incident involving milking parlour gate €400,000
In July 2020 a farmer on a dairy farm in County Limerick was fatally injured by a pneumatically operated milking parlour gate designed and manufactured by Dairymaster. The company pleaded guilty to six counts; the court imposed €200,000 each for breaches of s. 16(3) and s. 16(1)(a) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 (duties of designers and manufacturers), totalling €400,000, with the remaining counts taken into consideration.
Manufacturers of work equipment are criminally liable for safe design, testing and adequate safety information.
- Authority / court
- Limerick Circuit Criminal Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Authority)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- s. 16(1)(a), 16(3) i. V. m. s. 77(2)(a), 77(9)(a) Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 28 Jul 2026
- HSA: Dairymaster Unlimited Company fined €400,000 following a fatal workplace incident (28.07.2026) Press release of an authority
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15 Jul 2026 CalPlus GmbH, Elektronik-Kontor Messtechnik GmbH, TVW Meßtechnik GmbHBundeskartellamt: 453,000 EUR against distributors of test and measuring equipment €453,000
From 2016 to 2022, three distributors of test and measuring equipment coordinated discounts as essential price components and informed each other of customer contacts, usually with a request for "restraint". This was evidenced by more than 400 emails; the proceedings ended in settlements.
Small distributors are liable too: merely asking a competitor to "hold back" with a customer is a prohibited customer allocation agreement.
Email contacts with competitors about customers and discounts
- Authority / court
- Bundeskartellamt
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 1 GWB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement; cooperation by Elektronik-Kontor Messtechnik taken into account
- Published
- 15 Jul 2026
- Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder wegen Preisabsprachen beim Vertrieb von Prüf- und Messgeräten Press release of an authority
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23 Jun 2026 VARTA AGVARTA: late ad hoc announcement and missing half-yearly financial report €620,000
BaFin imposed fines on the battery manufacturer because it had not disclosed inside information without delay and had not published the half-yearly financial report for the 2024 financial year.
Ad hoc assessments and periodic disclosure require fixed responsibilities and deadline controls so that neither inside information nor mandatory reports are left pending.
- Authority / court
- Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- Art. 17 Abs. 1 UAbs. 1 MAR; § 115 Abs. 1 Satz 1 WpHG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 1 Jul 2026
- VARTA AG: BaFin setzt Geldbußen fest Decision of an authority
- Bekanntmachung der BaFin zur VARTA AG (Maßnahmenansicht mit Rechtskraftvermerk) Official register or notice
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2 Apr 2026 Nexans France, Nexans SA; Sonepar-Gruppe (Sonepar France Distribution u. a.)Nexans and Sonepar: EUR 6.5 million for exclusive import rights in overseas territories €6.5m
From 13 May 2015 to 20 November 2023, Nexans granted companies of the Sonepar group exclusive rights to import Nexans cables into La Réunion, Mayotte, French Guiana, Martinique and Guadeloupe, which Art. L. 420-2-1 of the Code de commerce (French Commercial Code) prohibits for the overseas territories. In a settlement procedure the Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) imposed EUR 3 million on Nexans France (jointly with Nexans SA) and EUR 3.5 million on the Sonepar companies involved, EUR 6.5 million in total. It is the authority’s first decision based on a report by a person with protected whistleblower status.
Exclusive import or distribution rights for the French overseas territories are prohibited in principle and should be reviewed before any contract is signed.
Exclusive distribution and import rights; whistleblowers as a source of detection
- Authority / court
- Autorité de la concurrence
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. L. 420-2-1 Code de commerce; Vergleichsverfahren nach Art. L. 464-2 III Code de commerce
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement procedure (transaction): the companies did not contest the objections.
- Published
- 2 Apr 2026
- Autorité de la concurrence, Décision 26-D-04 du 2 avril 2026 (Entscheidungsseite) Decision of an authority
- Autorité de la concurrence, Décision 26-D-04 (Volltext, PDF) Decision of an authority
- Autorité de la concurrence, Communiqué de presse zu 26-D-04 Press release of an authority
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12 Feb 2026 ELKOND HHK, VUKI, Prysmian, NKT, KABEX u. a. (Kabelkartell, 9 Unternehmen und ein Verband)Cable cartel: PMÚ imposes record fines of 97.4 million EUR €97.4m
Manufacturers and suppliers of copper and aluminium cables coordinated a common calculation of the metal surcharge, which makes up a significant part of the final price; an industry association acted as facilitator. The Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, PMÚ SR) imposed a total of 97,434,800 EUR, the highest amount in a single proceeding; two leniency applicants were not fined (not final). Addressees: ELKOND HHK, a.s.; VUKI a.s.; Prysmian Kablo s.r.o.; Prysmian Kabely, s.r.o.; Kablo Vrchlabí s.r.o.; NKT s.r.o.; PRECON s.r.o.; Tele–Fonika Kabely CZ s.r.o.; KABELOVNA KABEX a. s.; Asociace výrobců kabelů a vodičů ČR a SR (leniency applicants without a fine: ICS Industrial Cables Slovakia, PRAKAB).
A coordinated calculation formula for price components is also price fixing – association work needs competition law support.
Price coordination via associations and surcharge formulas
- Authority / court
- Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (PMÚ SR)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Slowakisches Wettbewerbsschutzgesetz (Kartellverbot)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 11 Mar 2026
- KARTELY: PMÚ odhalil kartel výrobcov a dodávateľov káblov, uložil pokuty takmer 100 miliónov eur Press release of an authority
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16 Dec 2025 Luxembourg: 7,000 EUR against equipment manufacturer over incomplete record of processing €7,000
During an on-site inspection in November 2023, a Luxembourg manufacturer of technical equipment (pseudonymised in the decision as “Société A”) did not hand over its record of processing activities but only showed it in an online application; the record exported from the software the following day, with 40 entries, was incomplete and inaccurate, including as regards contact details, categories of data subjects and data, recipients and transfers to third countries. The CNPD (Commission nationale pour la protection des données, the Luxembourg data protection authority) imposed 7,000 EUR, issued a reprimand and ordered the record to be completed within two months.
Have your record of processing activities available on request and name recipients and third countries specifically – “group companies” or “service providers” is not enough.
Maintaining the record of processing activities
- Authority / court
- Commission nationale pour la protection des données (CNPD), formation restreinte
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 30 Abs. 1 lit. a, c, d, e
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- negligent
- Délibération n° 7FR/2025 du 16 décembre 2025 – amende et autres mesures correctrices Decision of an authority
- Entscheidung 7FR/2025 (pseudonymisierte Fassung, PDF) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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9 Dec 2025 CNH Industrial Polska sp. z o.o., Raitech sp. z o.o., PHU Perkoz sp. z o.o. u. a. (8 Unternehmen)CNH Industrial Polska and dealers: PLN 338.8m for agricultural machinery cartel €80.1m
UOKiK sanctioned CNH Industrial Polska and seven dealers of the New Holland, Case IH and Steyr brands for dividing the Polish market for agricultural machinery of these brands and coordinating prices. The fines on the undertakings total PLN 338,827,000 (CNH Industrial Polska 241,599,000, Raitech 24,391,000, Perkoz 23,778,000, Adler Agro 15,335,000, Rolserwis 13,356,000, a further dealer company (partnership) 8,249,000, Kisiel Agrotech 6,778,000, Kisiel 5,341,000 PLN). Fines on natural persons are not included in the amount. The decision is not final.
Agreements on sales territories and prices within a dealer network are serious cartel infringements in agricultural machinery distribution too.
Market sharing and price coordination between manufacturer and dealers
- Authority / court
- Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów (UOKiK)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 6 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 und 3 ustawa o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów; Art. 101 Abs. 1 lit. a und c AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
Original amount 338,827,000 PLN, converted at the ECB reference rate of 9 Dec 2025.
- UOKiK-Entscheidungsdatenbank: Decyzja DOK-5/2025 (CNH Industrial Polska u. a.) Enforcement database of an authority
- Decyzja nr DOK-5/2025 vom 09.12.2025 (öffentliche Fassung) Decision of an authority
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19 Nov 2025 Pfanner Schutzbekleidung GmbH, Protos GmbH, Pronocer Holding GmbH (vormals Holding-AG der Gruppe)Pfanner: €400,000 fine for resale price maintenance in workwear trade €400,000
The Kartellgericht (Cartel Court) fined Pfanner Schutzbekleidung GmbH, Protos GmbH and their holding company (now Pronocer Holding GmbH) 400,000 EUR because, from 9 March 2016 to 25 November 2021, they fixed their dealers' resale prices for work and protective clothing in Austria. Compliance was monitored systematically, dealers who deviated were contacted, and in 2019 a circular reminded all dealers of the prices. Reductions were granted for the settlement, cooperation and a newly introduced compliance system.
Circulars urging dealers to keep to prices are direct evidence of resale price maintenance and should be legally reviewed before they are sent.
Resale price maintenance towards dealers
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht (Antrag der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 1 Abs. 1 und 4 KartG und Art. 101 AEUV; § 29 Z 1 lit. a und d KartG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Consensual termination of the proceedings, cooperation with the BWB (Federal Competition Authority), introduction of a compliance system.
- Published
- 18 Sep 2026
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27 Jun 2025 IDEMIA France (vormals Oberthur Technologies)Paris prosecutor: CJIP with IDEMIA France for €15.54m over foreign bribery €15.5m
IDEMIA France, formerly Oberthur Technologies, undertook to pay a public interest fine of 15,541,130 EUR in a CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement) with the Paris public prosecutor. The investigation opened in 2013, including for bribery of foreign public officials and money laundering, concerned contracts between the Angolan central bank (BNA) and Oberthur Technologies from its former banknote business; validation took place on 27 June 2025.
Contracts with state bodies such as central banks require particularly careful scrutiny of intermediaries and payment flows.
Bribery risks in contracts with state central banks
- Authority / court
- Parquet de Paris (Procureure de la République); Validierung durch das Tribunal judiciaire de Paris
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 41-1-2 Code de procédure pénale (corruption d'agent public étranger, blanchiment)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 27 Jun 2025
- Communiqué de presse de la Procureure de la République de Paris, 27 juin 2025 (CJIP IDEMIA France) Press release of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice: Liste der Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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30 Apr 2025 Luxembourg engineering firm: 7,000 EUR for incomplete record of processing activities €7,000
In an audit campaign on records of processing activities, the Commission nationale pour la protection des données (Luxembourg data protection authority, CNPD) found that an engineering and design consultancy (pseudonymised as ‘Société A’) had omitted mandatory information such as name and contact details, categories of data subjects and data, and retention periods. It imposed 7,000 EUR.
The record of processing activities is the first thing supervisory authorities request – it must be complete, including retention periods.
- Authority / court
- Commission nationale pour la protection des données (CNPD) – formation restreinte
- Area of law
- Data protection
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 30 Abs. 1 lit. a, c, f
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- CNPD – Délibération n° 3FR/2025 du 30 avril 2025 (Société A) Decision of an authority
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19 Mar 2025 Sennheiser electronic SE & Co KG, Sonova AGSennheiser and Sonova: €634,000 for resale price maintenance on consumer audio products €634,000
The Kartellgericht (Cartel Court) imposed fines totalling 634,000 EUR for vertical resale price maintenance on Sennheiser-brand consumer electronics audio products (headphones): 534,000 EUR on Sennheiser electronic SE & Co KG for May 2015 to February 2022 and 100,000 EUR on Sonova AG for March to September 2022. Retailers were given end-customer prices whose observance was monitored; both companies cooperated and did not contest the facts.
Non-binding recommended prices become prohibited resale price maintenance as soon as manufacturers monitor retail prices and object to deviations.
Resale price maintenance in online retail
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht (Antrag der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV und § 1 Abs. 1 KartG; § 29 Z 1 lit. a und d KartG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Full cooperation in clarifying the facts; all essential facts left undisputed (acknowledgement).
- Published
- 16 Dec 2025
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11 Feb 2025 KLUBB France SASVehicle body builder KLUBB France: CJIP over an ambulance contract in Algeria €558,024
Following a referral from the public prosecutor's office in Rennes, the PNF investigated bribery of foreign public officials in the performance of a contract for the supply of ambulances to Algeria. KLUBB France is paying a public interest fine of 558,024 EUR and is undergoing a three-year AFA compliance programme.
Medium-sized exporters are also in the spotlight: companies supplying foreign authorities need a robust anti-corruption programme under Sapin II (the French anti-corruption law).
Export contracts with state bodies
- Authority / court
- Parquet national financier (PNF); Validierung durch den Präsidenten des Tribunal judiciaire de Paris
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 41-1-2 Code de procédure pénale (CJIP); Bestechung ausländischer Amtsträger
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.
- Published
- 11 Feb 2025
- Communiqué de presse du procureur de la République financier – CJIP KLUBB France Press release of an authority
- CJIP KLUBB France SAS (10.02.2025) Decision of an authority
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10 Feb 2025 Fatal pallet fall in warehouse: 100,000 EUR fine for industrial door manufacturer €100,000
In January 2023, in the warehouse of a manufacturer of industrial doors in Didam (anonymised in the judgment), a 792 kg pallet fell from an unstable stack four high onto a new employee, who died; the forklift used, fitted with fork extensions, had no CE marking of its own and was unsuitable for the load, the risk assessment was incomplete and the instruction of the victim, who did not speak Dutch, was inadequate. The Overijssel District Court (Rechtbank Overijssel, economic division) imposed 100,000 EUR (of which 25,000 EUR suspended) for intentional violations of the Dutch Working Conditions Act (Arbowet), plus 17,500 EUR in damages to the mother (ECLI:NL:RBOVE:2025:711).
Instruct employees in a language they understand – and draw consequences from earlier reportable accidents.
Instruction of employees who speak other languages; safe stacking
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Rechtbank Overijssel (economische kamer)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Art. 32 Arbeidsomstandighedenwet i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1, 8 Abs. 1 Arbeidsomstandighedenwet; Art. 3.17, 7.2 Abs. 1, 7.18 Abs. 2 Arbeidsomstandighedenbesluit
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- No previous convictions of the company; part of the fine suspended.
- Rechtbank Overijssel, ECLI:NL:RBOVE:2025:711 vom 10.02.2025 Court decision
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26 Nov 2024 Niederländische Jachtwerft (anonymisiert)OM: €150,000 against Dutch yacht builder over Myanmar teak (EUTR) €150,000
The Openbaar Ministerie (OM, Dutch Public Prosecution Service) settled proceedings against a Dutch yacht builder, not named in the release, with a penalty order of 150,000 EUR because in 2022 it sourced furniture and finishing wood made of Myanmar teak from a Turkish woodworking company and, as the first to place it on the EU market, did not meet the due diligence obligations of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR); the legal origin of the wood could no longer be established. The yard was not at fault regarding the deck timber of the superyacht, because a German trader had placed that on the market; the information was passed to the German authorities. The OM took into account that the yard admitted the breach and no longer uses Myanmar teak.
Anyone importing timber products directly from non-EU countries becomes an operator with due diligence obligations and must be able to prove legal origin before buying.
Due diligence when importing timber products from non-EU countries
- Authority / court
- Openbaar Ministerie (OM), Functioneel Parket
- Area of law
- Supply chain and human rights · Supply chain due diligence
- Legal basis
- Europäische Holzhandelsverordnung (EUTR), Sorgfaltspflichten des Marktteilnehmers; Strafbefehl des OM
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Admission of the breach; complete abandonment of Myanmar teak.
- Published
- 26 Nov 2024
- OM: OM treft schikking met Nederlandse jachtbouwer voor gebruik van fout hout Press release of an authority
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29 Oct 2024 Schneider Electric; Legrand; Rexel; SoneparElectrical equipment: EUR 470 million against Schneider Electric, Legrand, Rexel and Sonepar €470m
The Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) sanctioned two vertical price agreements in the distribution of low-voltage electrical equipment: Schneider Electric with the wholesalers Rexel and Sonepar (13 December 2012 to 6 September 2018) and Legrand with Rexel (24 May 2012 to 14 September 2015). Through the system of so-called “dérogations”, i.e. special discounts granted by the manufacturers on the standard purchase price for particular end customers, the distributors’ prices to those customers were in effect fixed. Fines: Schneider Electric 207 million, Rexel 124 million, Sonepar 96 million and Legrand 43 million EUR.
Special discounts for individual customers or projects must not be used to set the distributor’s price to the end customer.
Resale price maintenance via discount and special-terms systems
- Authority / court
- Autorité de la concurrence
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. L. 420-1 Code de commerce; Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 30 Oct 2024
- Autorité de la concurrence, Liste des décisions et avis (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
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8 Jul 2024 two suppliers of fire protection products on the Belgian marketFire protection cartel: €2.21m against one supplier for sharing public contracts €2.21m
In a settlement procedure, the competition authority found that two suppliers of fire protection products (supplier A and supplier B) shared public customers between them in tenders and negotiated procedures for fire protection products from April 2009 to September 2016 by refraining from bidding or submitting cover bids. Supplier B and a further company of its group must pay allegedly 2,207,682 EUR jointly and severally; supplier A, as first leniency applicant, received a fine of 0 EUR and committed to compensating injured customers and to a donation of 50,000 EUR to a charity.
Sharing customers with competitors in public tenders risks heavy fines; full immunity goes only to the first to come forward.
Competition law in public tenders: market sharing and cover bids
- Authority / court
- Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (ABC/BMA) – Auditorat (Vergleichsentscheidung)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. IV.1 Code de droit économique (CDE), Art. 101 AEUV; Art. IV.59, IV.60 und IV.79 § 1 CDE
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement; according to the press release supplier B obtained a 50% reduction for its cooperation; supplier A received immunity as first leniency applicant.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 8 Jul 2024
- ABC/BMA, Décisions (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Version 2 · Company name anonymised since 8 Jul 2026 · Direct link
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27 Jun 2024 an Austrian industrial goods manufacturer and its owning entityAustria: EUR 3m fine on an industrial goods manufacturer for resale price maintenance and territorial protection €3m
The Kartellgericht (Cartel Court) imposed a joint fine of EUR 3 million on an Austrian industrial goods manufacturer and its owning entity for a long-running infringement in the distribution of its own products in Austria between 2007 and 2021. Resale prices, a territorial split and non-compete obligations were agreed with authorised dealers, together with concerted practices such as cover bids. The companies acknowledged the infringement and received reductions for cooperation and settlement.
Distribution agreements must be checked for resale price maintenance, territorial protection and non-compete clauses before signature; cover bids by dealers at the manufacturer's request are also cartel infringements.
Resale price maintenance and territorial protection in distribution agreements
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht (Antrag der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 1 KartG und Art. 101 AEUV; § 29 Z 1 lit. a und d KartG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Acknowledgement of the infringement; reductions for cooperation and settlement.
- Published
- 10 Jan 2025
- RIS, Judikatur Justiz (Suche) (Entscheidung 2024) Court decision
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1 Mar 2024 a German aircraft engine manufacturerEngine manufacturer: inside information not disclosed without delay overturned
BaFin imposed a fine of 510,000 EUR on the engine manufacturer because it allegedly had not disclosed inside information without delay. Following an objection by the company, the Local Court of Frankfurt am Main (Amtsgericht) discontinued the proceedings on 21 January 2025 pursuant to Section 47 (2) OWiG (German Administrative Offences Act).
Document the ad hoc assessment in such a way that the company can later substantiate its decision on the timing and content of a disclosure.
Ad hoc disclosure: recognising inside information and disclosing it without delay
- Authority / court
- Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- Art. 17 Abs. 1 UAbs. 1 MAR
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- overturned
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 20 Mar 2024
Amount in EUR; no ECB reference rate is available for this currency.
- BaFin, Maßnahmen und Sanktionen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
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19 Feb 2024 an Austrian supplier of functional and protective clothingBundeskartellamt: €783,900 on protective clothing supplier for resale price maintenance €783,900
The Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) fined the Austrian supplier of functional and protective clothing 783,900 EUR because, from early 2016 to the end of November 2021, it had agreed with specialist retailers in Germany that their resale prices – in store and online – should as far as possible match the recommended retail price and that cash discounts should generally not be granted. The case was triggered by a retailer's cooperation request; the authority used requests for information under Section 82b GWB (German Competition Act), and the fining decision is final following a settlement.
Manufacturers may only recommend prices to retailers; agreements designed to prevent discounts or prices below the recommended price attract fines.
Resale price maintenance in specialist and online retail
- Authority / court
- Bundeskartellamt
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Prompt, comprehensive and cooperative replies to two requests for information; agreement to a settlement.
- Published
- 13 Mar 2024
- Bundeskartellamt, Presse (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 19 Feb 2026 · Direct link
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7 Dec 2023 a German intralogistics groupIntralogistics group: ad hoc disclosure obligation breached, fine final €280,000
The intralogistics and forklift truck group had not disclosed inside information. BaFin imposed a fine of 280,000 EUR, which has been final since January 2024.
Escalate potential inside information to the ad hoc disclosure committee immediately, not at the next reporting date.
Ad hoc disclosure: recognising inside information and disclosing it without delay
- Authority / court
- Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- Art. 17 Abs. 1 UAbs. 1 MAR
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 21 Dec 2023
- BaFin, Maßnahmen und Sanktionen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 7 Dec 2025 · Direct link