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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 718 cases from 32 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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€23.3mTotal of monetary amounts
€23.3mMedian per case with an amount

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28 Apr 2026 Amica Chips S.p.A., Pata S.p.A., Preziosi Food S.p.A.Italy: 23.3 million EUR against Amica Chips, Pata and Preziosi Food over snack cartel ItalyCartels and collusion €23.3m

In a secret, continuing agreement, three manufacturers of salty snacks and crisps divided up among themselves the supply of private-label snacks to food retailers. Fines: Amica Chips 8,239,210 EUR, Pata 7,555,387 EUR, Preziosi Food 7,503,550 EUR; this was the first time Italy's competition authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, AGCM) applied its settlement procedure.

What organisations can take from it

Retailers' tenders for private labels are competition – coordinated sham bids to retailers constitute a cartel.

Relevance to training and awareness

Sham bids in retailers' private-label tenders

Authority / court
Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
Area of law
Competition law · Cartels and collusion
Legal basis
Art. 101 AEUV; Art. 14-quater Gesetz 287/1990 (Settlement)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Food and agriculture
Mitigating circumstances
Leniency reduction for Pata and Amica Chips; 10 % settlement discount for all
Published
28 Apr 2026

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

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