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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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by authority- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) €70m 100 % · 1 case
- Europäische Staatsanwaltschaft (EPPO), Büro Bologna — 0 % · 1 case
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| Q1 2025 | 1 | — |
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| Q4 2025 | 1 | €70m |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
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| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
2 cases
31 Dec 2025 C2MAC Group, Fonderie De Riccardis, Zanardi Fonderie u. a. (Gießereikartell, 12 Unternehmen und Assofond)Italy: 70 million EUR against 16 foundries and the association Assofond over price index cartel €70m
From 2004 to June 2024, foundries coordinated their pricing strategies via the association Assofond: they exchanged sensitive information and developed joint indexation mechanisms ("Assofond indicators") in order to push through price increases including margins. The AGCM imposed fines of 70 million EUR (maximum around 600 million EUR), taking the crisis in the sector into account as a mitigating factor. Addressees: C2MAC Group, Fonderia Corrà, Fonderie De Riccardis, Fonderie Guido Glisenti/Lead Time, Pilenga Baldassarre/E.F. Group, Fonderie Mora Gavardo/Camozzi Group, Zanardi Fonderie, VDP Fonderia, Fonderie Ariotti, Ironcastings, Fonderia Zardo, ZML Industries/Cividale, Assofond.
Joint price indices within an association are only permissible if they do not enable coordination of margins or prices – metalworking companies should have their association activities accompanied by competition law advice.
Association indices and price adjustment clauses as a coordination tool
- Authority / court
- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 101 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Mitigating circumstances
- The severe crisis in the foundry sector was taken into account in setting the fines
- Published
- 31 Dec 2025
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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10 Feb 2025 EPPO freezes assets: Chinese stainless steel declared as Korean Order
In 110 imports via a customs agency in Ferrara, two companies are alleged to have declared stainless steel coils from China as being of South Korean origin, thereby evading almost 2.4 million EUR in additional duty under the 2019 EU anti-dumping regulation; 60 further imports by one of the companies using the same method involve around 950,000 EUR. At the request of the Bologna office of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), assets totalling more than 3.3 million EUR were frozen; searches took place in Ferrara, Varese, Milan and La Spezia.
False origin declarations for steel subject to anti-dumping duties are prosecuted across borders by the EU prosecutor – with asset freezes already at the investigation stage.
Origin declarations for steel imports and liability of management
- Authority / court
- Europäische Staatsanwaltschaft (EPPO), Büro Bologna
- Area of law
- Sanctions and export control · Customs
- Legal basis
- EU-Antidumpingverordnung von 2019 (Edelstahlcoils aus China); Hinterziehung von Einfuhrzöllen
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Liability of senior managers
- Those responsible at the companies are alleged to have certified the South Korean origin.
- Published
- 10 Feb 2025
- EPPO: Italy – EPPO seizes €950 000 in probe into import of stainless steel coils (10.02.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link