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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 countryWhat for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
- Data protection €19m 25 % · 31 cases
- Bribery and corruption €18.4m 24 % · 1 case
- Competition law €16.9m 22 % · 10 cases
- Consumer protection and online retail €14m 18 % · 5 cases
- Capital markets and financial supervision €3.65m 5 % · 4 cases
- Money laundering and terrorist financing €1.6m 2 % · 7 cases
- Environment and sustainability €1.5m 2 % · 2 cases
- Health and safety and employment law €741,341 1 % · 5 cases
- Sanctions and export control €195,000 0 % · 1 case
Who?
by company- SURYS SAS (Gruppe Imprimerie Nationale) €18.4m 24 % · 1 case
- Ö Aktiengesellschaft (in der Entscheidung abgekürzt; Adressverlag und Direktwerbeunternehmen) €13m 17 % · 1 case
- Philip Morris Italia S.r.l. €7m 9 % · 1 case
- Società Cooperativa Culture (CoopCulture) €7m 9 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €6.39m 8 % · 18 cases
- Associação Portuguesa das Empresas do Setor Privado de Emprego e de Recursos Humanos (APESPE) €4.52m 6 % · 1 case
- Syndicat National des Moniteurs du Ski Français (SNMSF) €3.4m 4 % · 1 case
- Liquidaciones Vizcaya, SL; Albujón Solar 81, SL €3m 4 % · 1 case
- ECIT Account A/S €2.68m 4 % · 1 case
- Informa D&B, S.A. €1.8m 2 % · 1 case
- 34 more€8.48m
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €142,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | €1.59m |
| 2024 | 17 | €7.75m |
| 2025 | 18 | €36.2m |
| 2026 | 20 | €30.3m |
66 cases
24 Aug 2026 Fitnessstudiokette in Amsterdam (anonymisiert)Labour Authority: €316,875 in fines for Amsterdam gym chain €316,875
The Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie (Netherlands Labour Authority) imposed fines totalling 316,875 EUR on a gym chain in Amsterdam that is not named in the release. For 25 foreign workers the required work permit or combined residence and work permit was missing, and for three people identity had not been established (Wav, Foreign Nationals Employment Act, 234,375 EUR); because of deficient records it could not be verified whether the minimum wage had been paid for all hours worked (WML, Minimum Wage and Minimum Holiday Allowance Act, 60,000 EUR), plus a breach of the Arbeidstijdenwet (Working Hours Act, 22,500 EUR). The company also received two warnings that work may be preventively halted if the same or similar breaches recur.
Before anyone starts work, their right to work and identity must be checked and working hours must be fully recorded.
Checking the right to work and recording working hours
- Authority / court
- Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Legal basis
- Wet arbeid vreemdelingen (Wav); Wet minimumloon en minimumvakantiebijslag (WML); Arbeidstijdenwet (ATW)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 24 Aug 2026
- Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie: Sportschoolketen krijgt ruim 3 ton euro aan boetes Press release of an authority
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19 Aug 2026 Poliserv JG (PJG) SRLPhishing on admin account – Poliserv JG must pay 3,000 EUR €2,998
Attackers obtained the credentials of a user account with administrator rights through phishing and accessed customer data. The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) criticised the lack of technical and organisational measures and of regular effectiveness testing, imposed 15,728 lei (3,000 EUR) and ordered regular employee training, including on recognising phishing e-mails. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in the previous month.
Admin accounts need MFA, and all employees must be able to recognise phishing – the supervisory authority now expressly orders training.
Phishing recognition, protection of privileged accounts
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b und Abs. 2 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 19 Aug 2026
Original amount 15,728 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Aug 2026.
- ANSPDCP – Comunicat de presă 19.08.2026 (Poliserv JG (PJG) SRL) Press release of an authority
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6 Aug 2026 AMATO BESTSELLER S.R.L.AMATO BESTSELLER: 45,000 EUR plus 50,000 lei for data access and robocalls €54,316
Following several complaints, the Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (Romanian data protection authority, ANSPDCP) found that current and former employees, untrained and without procedural rules, had access to extensive data (including health, family and income data), that data subjects were not informed under Art. 14 GDPR, that excessive data were collected and that automated advertising calls were made without consent. Fines: 78,465 lei (15,000 EUR, Art. 32(4)), 52,310 lei (10,000 EUR, Art. 14), 104,620 lei (20,000 EUR, Art. 5/9 GDPR) and 50,000 lei (Law 506/2004); in addition, an order to provide regular employee training. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in June 2026.
Anyone giving employees access to sensitive customer data must train them and limit access on a need-to-know basis.
Training employees in handling customer data; consent for advertising calls
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. c i. V. m. Art. 9, Art. 14, Art. 32 Abs. 4 DSGVO; Art. 12 Abs. 1 Gesetz 506/2004
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 6 Aug 2026
Original amount 285,395 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Aug 2026.
- ANSPDCP – Comunicat de presă 06.08.2026 (AMATO BESTSELLER S.R.L.) Press release of an authority
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5 Aug 2026 GmbH (im Urteil anonymisiert)Illegal dumping of construction waste: company must pay €375,000 forfeiture €375,000
The Oberlandesgericht (OLG, Higher Regional Court) Linz added a forfeiture of 375,000 EUR to the conviction of a limited company under the Verbandsverantwortlichkeitsgesetz (VbVG, Austrian Corporate Criminal Liability Act) for intentionally handling and moving waste in a way that endangered the environment; the suspended corporate fine of 30 daily rates of 500 EUR (15,000 EUR) imposed by the Landesgericht (Regional Court) Salzburg remained in place. From May 2021 to May 2024 and again from May 2025 to February 2026, contrary to the AWG 2002 (Waste Management Act) and partly to an official decision, the company had excavated soil, construction waste, asphalt and concrete rubble accepted for payment and deposited on a plot; removal costs were put at around 3.24 million EUR. Only the forfeiture of EUR 375,000 is recorded as the amount; the corporate fine of EUR 15,000 was conditionally suspended.
Anyone accepting and depositing waste without a permit risks not only a corporate fine but also forfeiture of the fees received for it, which can far exceed the fine.
Waste law and official conditions for excavated soil and construction waste
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Linz (Berufung gegen Urteil des Landesgerichts Salzburg vom 06.03.2026)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances
- Legal basis
- § 181b Abs. 1 und 2 StGB; §§ 3, 4 Abs. 1 und 3, § 6 Abs. 1, § 14 Abs. 1 VbVG; § 20 Abs. 3 StGB; AWG 2002
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- No previous convictions of the company; rather low environmental risk. Further circumstances taken into account by the court concern a natural person and are not reported here.
- Liability of senior managers
- Under the VbVG, the company's liability is linked to the conduct of its managing director.
- OLG Linz, 9 Bs 153/26b vom 05.08.2026 (RIS) Court decision
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24 Jul 2026 Callcenter (anonymisiert)BNetzA: €34,327 fine on call centre, including for incomplete records of consent €34,327
The Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) imposed fines totalling 34,327 EUR on a call centre that mainly marketed telecoms products: 32,000 EUR for unlawful telephone advertising and 2,327 EUR because consents to sales calls had not been fully documented. The campaign continued despite the gaps and requests to stop calling were sometimes ignored; the company has appealed.
Consents to telephone marketing must be fully documented – if the proof is missing, the campaign must not continue.
Consent and proof of consent for telephone marketing
- Authority / court
- Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- UWG – Verbot unerlaubter Telefonwerbung gegenüber Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern; § 7a UWG (Dokumentation und Aufbewahrung von Einwilligungen)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Other
- BNetzA: Bußgelder Unerlaubte Telefonwerbung (laufende Liste mit Einzelmeldungen) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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16 Jul 2026 BGH: online cancellation page must not offer a "pause contract" alternative Order
On the confirmation page of its online cancellation process, a gym operator displayed a highlighted notice with the button "Pause contract via self-service"; in addition, the confirmation button was labelled "Find contract", which the defendant had already acknowledged. In an action brought by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband), the BGH ruled that the confirmation page may only contain the information required for the cancellation and the confirmation button, set aside the judgment of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (OLG Düsseldorf) dismissing the action to that extent and ordered the operator to cease and desist.
Keep retention or pause offers off the confirmation page of the online cancellation process.
Design of the cancellation process (cancellation button, retention offers)
- Authority / court
- Bundesgerichtshof (I. Zivilsenat), Az. I ZR 200/25
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Information duties in online retail
- Legal basis
- § 312k Abs. 1 Satz 1, Abs. 2 BGB (Kündigungsbutton)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 16 Jul 2026
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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14 Jul 2026 Goldwin LtdMalta: 80,907 EUR against online casino Goldwin for missing customer risk assessment €80,907
The 2022 examination revealed that for more than two years the remote gaming operator had had no proper customer risk assessment for almost its entire player base; the assessments submitted had been prepared specifically for the examination. In addition, once players reached the deposit threshold of 2,000 EUR, it did not check in good time whether they were politically exposed persons. The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) imposed 80,907 EUR; the fine was still open to appeal at the time of publication.
Supervisory authorities see through risk assessments prepared only for the examination – they must be applied in day-to-day business.
Risk-based customer assessment in gambling
- Authority / court
- Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU)
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence
- Legal basis
- Reg. 5(5)(a)(ii), 11(5), 21 PMLFTR; FIAU Implementing Procedures Part I und II (Remote Gaming)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 16 Jul 2026
- Administrative Measure Publication Notice – Goldwin Ltd Decision of an authority
- Publication of AML/CFT Administrative Penalties and Measures – FIAU Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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24 Jun 2026 Ö Aktiengesellschaft (in der Entscheidung abgekürzt; Adressverlag und Direktwerbeunternehmen)VwGH sets data protection fine for party affinities definitively at 13 million EUR €13m
The company had stored statistically calculated ‘party affinities’ for around 2.2 million people and in some cases sold them to advertising clients – special categories of personal data without consent; in addition, parcel frequency data was further processed for incompatible purposes. The Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde, DSB) had imposed 18 million EUR in 2019 and the Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, BVwG) 16 million EUR in 2024; Austria's Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof, VwGH) has now set the fine with final effect at 13 million EUR (plus 100,000 EUR in procedural costs).
Calculated characteristics such as political leanings are themselves special categories – companies that derive them for advertising need explicit consent.
- Authority / court
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Ausgangsbescheid: Datenschutzbehörde)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a und b, Art. 6 Abs. 4, Art. 9 Abs. 1 (VwGH Ro 2025/04/0007)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Other
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Comprehensive cooperation, deletion of the party affinities, settlements with data subjects, long duration of proceedings (5 years, 10 months).
- Published
- 16 Jul 2026
- VwGH 24.06.2026, Ro 2025/04/0007 Court decision
- VwGH bestätigt unrechtmäßige Verarbeitung von Partei-Affinitäten und setzt Geldbuße mit EUR 13 Mio. fest Press release of an authority
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15 Jun 2026 SSG SELECT SOLUTIONS S.R.L.Stranger in Kaufland CCTV room – service provider SSG Select Solutions pays 2,000 EUR €1,948
An employee of the service provider acting as processor for Kaufland România let a third party into a store’s video surveillance room; that person filmed the images and distributed them on social media. Kaufland reported the incident. The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) imposed 10,200 lei (2,000 EUR) on the processor and ordered additional checks of the work instructions; the fine has been paid. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in April 2026.
Anyone with access to surveillance rooms must know: video footage is confidential, and third parties have no access there.
Access to surveillance rooms; staff bound by instructions
- Authority / court
- Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Video surveillance
- Legal basis
- Art. 29, Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b, Abs. 2 und 4 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 15 Jun 2026
Original amount 10,200 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Jun 2026.
- ANSPDCP – Comunicat de presă 15.06.2026 (SSG SELECT SOLUTIONS S.R.L.) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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9 Jun 2026 Philip Morris Italia S.r.l.AGCM fines Philip Morris Italia €7m over "senza fumo" (smoke-free) advertising €7m
Philip Morris Italia widely promoted heated tobacco devices, e-cigarettes and nicotine products for oral use with phrases such as "senza fumo" (smoke-free) and a "smoke-free future"; the AGCM considered this misleading because it suggested that the products were harmless or less harmful, although they can endanger health and safety. The authority imposed a fine of 7,000,000 EUR and prohibited continuation; the proceedings were triggered by a report from the Ministry of Health.
Health-related advertising claims must be complete and substantiated, and a slogan such as "smoke-free" must not imply that a product is harmless.
Health-related advertising claims for tobacco and nicotine products
- Authority / court
- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Misleading advertising and pricing
- Legal basis
- Art. 20, 21 Abs. 1 und 3, 22 Codice del consumo (D.lgs. 206/2005)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 10 Jun 2026
- AGCM, Provvedimento PS12940 (Adunanza 09.06.2026) Decision of an authority
- AGCM, Comunicato stampa 10.06.2026: PS12940 – Sanzione di 7 milioni a Philip Morris Italia S.r.l. Press release of an authority
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8 Jun 2026 A. Tsokkos Hotels Public LimitedCyprus: 16,500 EUR against A. Tsokkos Hotels for late annual financial report €16,500
The listed hotel group did not publish its 2024 annual financial report on time; the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) imposed a total of 16,500 EUR. At the same meeting, eleven other issuers were fined between 1,500 and 17,000 EUR for the same reason; a fine of 13,500 EUR had already been imposed on the company under the same law in 2025.
Publication deadlines for financial reports are not negotiable – repeated delays lead to fines and, in extreme cases, to suspension of trading.
- Authority / court
- Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- Sec. 9(1), 37(2)(a) Transparency Requirements (Securities Admitted to Trading on a Regulated Market) Law 2007
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Repeat case
- yes
- Published
- 7 Aug 2026
- CySEC Board Decision – Fines under the Transparency Requirements Law (08.06.2026) Decision of an authority
- CySEC Board Decision – Fines under the Transparency Requirements Law (14.07.2025, Jahresbericht 2023) Decision of an authority
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9 Apr 2026 Arbeitgeber (in der Mitteilung nicht namentlich genannt)Slovenia: 71,474 EUR for covert monitoring of employees using spyware €71,474
An employer installed the software Spyrix Employee Monitoring on the work computers of individual employees, which for months recorded screen content, audio and even private e-mails and conversations without informing the employees. The supervisory authority, the Informacijski pooblaščenec (Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, IP), imposed 71,474 EUR on the company.
Covert employee monitoring by software is practically never permissible – IT and managers must know this before tools are installed.
Permissible monitoring of employees and IT use
- Authority / court
- Informacijski pooblaščenec Republike Slovenije (IP)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Employee data
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 und Art. 6 Abs. 1 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
- Published
- 9 Apr 2026
- Delodajalcu, ki je prikrito nadzoroval vse aktivnosti zaposlenih na računalnikih, izrečena globa več kot 70.000 EUR Press release of an authority
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24 Mar 2026 SIA "Fitsypro"Fitsypro fails to answer access request and DVI enquiries – 1,500 EUR €1,500
A person complained that Fitsypro had not responded to their request for access, rectification and erasure of November 2023. Three requests for information from the Datu valsts inspekcija (Latvian Data State Inspectorate, DVI) between 2024 and 2026 went unanswered, and nobody attended the hearing. The DVI imposed 1,500 EUR and requested the information by 21 April 2026.
Official mailboxes (eAdrese) and data protection e-mail addresses must be monitored – silence towards the supervisory authority costs money.
Handling data subject requests and correspondence from authorities
- Authority / court
- Datu valsts inspekcija (DVI)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 58 Abs. 1 lit. e, Art. 83 Abs. 5 lit. e DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Culpability
- intentional
- DVI Lēmums Par soda piemērošanu (SIA „Fitsypro“), 24.03.2026 Decision of an authority
- Datu valsts inspekcija – Lēmumi (Liste der veröffentlichten Entscheidungen) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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23 Mar 2026 Stanleybet Malta LimitedMalta: 225,730 EUR against betting operator Stanleybet over lack of customer checks in betting shops €225,730
Malta's Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) imposed 225,730 EUR, a penalty payment of 2,000 EUR per day and a follow-up directive on the licensed gambling operator, which works through a network of independently operated betting shops in an EU member state. The company was unable to link customers' cumulative deposits across different shops and only checked customers from a single deposit of 2,000 EUR upwards, so the threshold could be circumvented. The company has appealed.
Thresholds must be aggregated per customer across all channels and branches – otherwise the system invites structuring.
Recognising structured deposits below the checking threshold
- Authority / court
- Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU)
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence
- Legal basis
- Regulation 21 PMLFTR; Verstöße gegen Regulations 5(5)(a)(ii), 7, 9(1) PMLFTR und FIAU Implementing Procedures
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 16 Apr 2026
- Administrative Measure Publication Notice – Stanleybet Malta Limited Decision of an authority
- Administrative Measures – FIAU Enforcement database of an authority
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17 Mar 2026 Syndicat National des Moniteurs du Ski Français (SNMSF)Ski instructors’ union SNMSF: EUR 3.4 million for exclusivity duty of ESF instructors €3.4m
From 12 May 2006 to 4 February 2025, the model agreement of France’s largest ski instructors’ union prohibited instructors of the Écoles du Ski Français from teaching for competing ski schools or their own clients and threatened exclusion for breaches; the Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) regarded this as a restriction of competition by object on the market for ski tuition. It imposed EUR 3.4 million, for the first time in an ordinary procedure calculated on the basis of the members’ turnover, and ordered the union to amend the rules, publish the decision and, if it cannot pay, call on its members for contributions.
Professional associations are also liable under competition law for statutes and model rules that forbid their members from working for competitors.
Anti-competitive rules in professional associations
- Authority / court
- Autorité de la concurrence
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV; Art. L. 420-1 Code de commerce; Bemessung nach Art. L. 464-2 Code de commerce (Umsetzung der ECN+-Richtlinie)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 17 Mar 2026
- Autorité de la concurrence, Décision 26-D-03 du 17 mars 2026 (Entscheidungsseite) Decision of an authority
- Autorité de la concurrence, Décision 26-D-03 (Volltext, PDF) Decision of an authority
- Autorité de la concurrence, Communiqué de presse zu 26-D-03 Press release of an authority
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12 Mar 2026 Associação Portuguesa das Empresas do Setor Privado de Emprego e de Recursos Humanos (APESPE)Portugal: 4.5 million EUR against temporary work association APESPE for no-poach rule €4.52m
From 1987 to March 2025, the association of temporary work agencies (around 40 members) obliged its members in its code of ethics not to poach each other’s temporary workers. The Autoridade da Concorrência (Portuguese Competition Authority, AdC) regarded this as an anticompetitive decision by an association in the labour market and imposed 4,519,000 EUR, calculated on the basis of the members’ turnover; the decision can be appealed (date = press release).
An association’s code of ethics can also be a cartel – no-poach agreements between competitors are off limits.
No-poach agreements in association rules
- Authority / court
- Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Lei da Concorrência (Lei n.º 19/2012), Art. 9.º
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 12 Mar 2026
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10 Mar 2026 Vier Unternehmen eines Bodenaufbereitungskonzerns aus Barneveld (anonymisiert)OM: €1.125m against four soil firms from Barneveld over environmental fraud €1.13m
The Openbaar Ministerie (OM, Dutch Public Prosecution Service) imposed penalty orders totalling 1,125,000 EUR on four companies from Barneveld that belonged to the same group at the time and are not named in the releases, consisting of 660,000 EUR in fines and 465,000 EUR in confiscation of unlawfully obtained gains. According to the OM, between 2013 and 2016 the firms accepted excessively contaminated sand, cleaned it inadequately or incorrectly and deliberately mixed it with cleaner sand for reuse, in breach of permit conditions and the Wet milieubeheer (Environmental Management Act) and involving forgery. The companies initially lodged an objection (verzet) but withdrew it, so the penalty orders are final (release of 2 July 2026).
In certified recycling chains no stage may bypass acceptance or testing criteria; mixing to conceal contamination turns a permit breach into environmental fraud.
Integrity in certified recycling chains for soil and waste
- Authority / court
- Openbaar Ministerie (OM), Functioneel Parket
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances
- Legal basis
- Vorschriften der Umgebungsgenehmigungen (omgevingsvergunningen); Wet milieubeheer; valsheid in geschrift; Strafbefehle des OM
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- The companies have adapted or ceased their activities, and measures have been taken within the group.
- Published
- 10 Mar 2026
- OM: Verzet tegen boetes van 1.125.000 euro voor milieufraude met verontreinigde zandgrond Press release of an authority
- OM: Boetes van in totaal 1.125.000 euro voor milieufraude met verontreinigde grond na intrekken verzet Press release of an authority
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2 Mar 2026 Nordic Cleaning ApSNordic Cleaning: fine for leaving access request unanswered despite an order €8,031
Despite repeated follow-ups by the trade union, the cleaning company did not respond to a union member’s access request and also failed to comply with the order of the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) to decide on the request. Datatilsynet reported the company; the case was closed on 2 March 2026 with a fine notice of 60,000 DKK.
Access requests and orders from authorities need a fixed intake channel and a responsible person – ignoring them leads straight to a criminal complaint.
Handling access requests (Art. 15 GDPR)
- Authority / court
- Anklagemyndigheden (Bødeforelæg) auf Anzeige der Datatilsynet
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 15; Nichtbefolgung einer Anordnung der Datatilsynet; databeskyttelsesloven
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
Original amount 60,000 DKK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 2 Mar 2026.
- Datatilsynet – Klein2 ApS og Nordic Cleaning ApS indstilles til bøde (Opdatering: afgjort 2. marts 2026) Press release of an authority
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29 Jan 2026 Associação de Guias de Informação Turística dos Açores (AGITA)Portugal: 8,200 EUR against Azores tour guide association for minimum price list €8,200
Since 2020, the only association of tour guides in the Azores (57 active members, around 43% of active guides) had recommended a fee table to its members by e-mail as minimum prices. Following a complaint, the Autoridade da Concorrência (Portuguese Competition Authority, AdC) imposed 8,200 EUR, taking the economic situation into account (date = press release).
Even small professional associations must not circulate fee tables as minimum prices – an e-mail is sufficient evidence.
No price recommendations by professional associations
- Authority / court
- Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Lei da Concorrência (Lei n.º 19/2012), Art. 9.º; Art. 101 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 29 Jan 2026
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19 Jan 2026 D*** GmbH (Digitalmarketing- und Recruitingagentur, anonymisiert)Recruitment agency: 25,500 EUR for secretly recorded calls with applicants €25,500
The agency conducted telephone pre-screening interviews with applicants on behalf of client companies, recorded them without valid consent, stored them indefinitely and presented itself as the client company in doing so. The Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde, DSB) imposed 25,500 EUR (plus 2,550 EUR in costs) for lack of a legal basis and transparency; the company has lodged an appeal against the amount of the fine with the Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht).
Call recordings in recruitment need a genuine legal basis and clear information about who is actually responsible.
Recording of telephone calls and applicant data
- Authority / court
- Datenschutzbehörde
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, c und e, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 12, 13
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Other
- Employees
- Under 50
- Mitigating circumstances
- No relevant previous violations, cooperation in the proceedings; adjustment of the starting amount to the company's small size.
- Datenschutzbehörde, Straferkenntnis 2025-1.049.138 vom 19.01.2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link