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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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Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €72m 99 % · 7 cases
- Securitas Sicherheitsdienstleistungen GmbH, Securitas AB €540,000 1 % · 1 case
- „Вазовски машиностроителни заводи“ ЕАД (VMZ) €50,855 0 % · 1 case
- Unternehmen für private Sicherheitsdienste (anonymisiert) €2,784 0 % · 1 case
- Securitas Sverige Aktiebolag – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €150,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | €7.53m |
| 2024 | 3 | €64.3m |
| 2025 | 2 | €542,784 |
| 2026 | 2 | €50,855 |
11 cases
16 Jun 2026 Securitas Sverige AktiebolagSecuritas Sverige: reprimand over cameras in company vehicles without legal basis Reprimand or warning
The security services provider used cameras in vehicles through which personal data was processed without any legal basis for doing so. The Swedish data protection authority (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, IMY) issued a reprimand under Art. 58 GDPR; no fine was imposed.
Dashcams in company cars also need a verified legal basis and a balancing against the interests of employees and passers-by.
Use of cameras in vehicles
- Authority / court
- Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Video surveillance
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 6 Abs. 1
- Action
- Reprimand or warning
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Defence and security
- IMY – Tillsyn Securitas Sverige Aktiebolag Decision of an authority
- IMY – Beslut Securitas Sverige AB Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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30 Apr 2026 „Вазовски машиностроителни заводи“ ЕАД (VMZ)Arms manufacturer VMZ used a partner’s know-how for disposable grenade launchers – 50,855 EUR €50,855
On application by a client, the Комисия за защита на конкуренцията (Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition, KZK) found that VMZ had used technical documentation on disposable grenade launchers that had been provided in confidence (trade secret) contrary to the confidentiality agreements and good commercial practice (Art. 37(1) ZZK – Bulgarian Protection of Competition Act). Sanction of 50,855.09 EUR and obligation to cease, with immediate enforceability. Appeals have been lodged against the decision.
Design documents provided in confidence may only be used within the agreed scope – especially in sensitive industries.
Handling confidential know-how of business partners
- Authority / court
- Комисия за защита на конкуренцията (КЗК, Bulgarische Wettbewerbskommission)
- Area of law
- Competition law
- Legal basis
- Art. 37 Abs. 1 ZZK (Geschäftsgeheimnisse)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Defence and security
- КЗК Публичен електронен регистър – Производство (Решение № 389 от 30.04.2026; Volltext als PDF im Register) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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16 Dec 2025 Unternehmen für private Sicherheitsdienste (anonymisiert)Luxembourg security services firm: EUR 2,784 for incomplete record of processing €2,784
The CNPD (Luxembourg data protection authority) imposed a fine of EUR 2,784, a reprimand and an order on a Luxembourg private security services company with more than 250 employees because its record of processing activities did not fully contain the information required by Art. 30(1) GDPR. Within one month it had to describe the security measures for its whistleblowing report handling, or state expressly that there were none.
The record of processing must contain, for every processing operation – including the handling of whistleblower reports – complete information on purposes, recipients, erasure periods and security measures.
- Authority / court
- Commission nationale pour la protection des données (CNPD), formation restreinte
- Area of law
- Data protection
- Legal basis
- Art. 30(1)(a), (c), (d), (e), (f) und (g) DSGVO; Art. 58(2) und 83 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Defence and security
- CNPD, Délibération n° 4FR/2025 du 16 décembre 2025 (version pseudonymisée) Decision of an authority
- CNPD, Décisions – Délibération n° 4FR/2025 Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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8 Apr 2025 Securitas Sicherheitsdienstleistungen GmbH, Securitas ABSecuritas: €540,000 fine for collusion in tenders for security services €540,000
The Kartellgericht (Cartel Court) imposed a fine of 540,000 EUR, jointly and severally, on Securitas Sicherheitsdienstleistungen GmbH and Securitas AB. From August 2019 to December 2022, an employee coordinated prices and strategic information with a competitor in three private tenders for manned security services. The Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde (BWB, Federal Competition Authority) granted a reduction for the consensual termination of the proceedings.
Even a few coordinated bids in private tenders are enough for a fine; sales teams need clear rules on contacts with competitors.
Information exchange with competitors in tenders
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht (Antrag der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- § 1 Abs. 1 KartG; § 29 Z 1 lit. a KartG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Employees
- 1,000 to 9,999
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Reduction for the consensual termination of the proceedings.
- Published
- 12 Feb 2026
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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2 Jul 2024 three Belgian security services companiesSecurity services cartel: €47.1m against two providers, third as leniency applicant €47.1m
In a settlement procedure, the Belgian competition authority found that three security services companies (providers A, B and C), from 2008 to 2020 and across Belgium, applied minimum hourly rates from their trade association, coordinated their conduct in public and private tenders and agreed not to poach each other's staff (no-poach). The fines amount to 35,895,112 EUR jointly and severally for provider A and its parent companies and 11,200,000 EUR jointly and severally for provider B and its parent companies, allegedly 47,095,112 EUR in total; provider C and its parent company, as leniency applicants, received a fine of 0 EUR. According to the authority's press release, it thereby made clear for the first time that no-poach agreements are prohibited as restrictions by object.
Agreements not to poach each other's employees are cartel infringements just like price-fixing and bid rigging and belong in every competition law training.
Competition law: bid rigging, trade association price recommendations and no-poach agreements
- Authority / court
- Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit / Autorité belge de la Concurrence (BMA/ABC) – Auditorat (Vergleichsentscheidung)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. IV.1 Wetboek van economisch recht / Code de droit économique (WER/CDE), Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV; Art. IV.59 und IV.79 § 1 WER/CDE
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement procedure with acknowledgement of participation; provider C received full immunity from fines as leniency applicant.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 3 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 2 Jul 2026 · Direct link
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30 Apr 2024 a German defence groupCNMC: €13m fine on German defence group for misleading merger notification €13m
The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC, Spanish competition and markets authority) imposed two fines of 6,500,000 EUR each, totalling 13,000,000 EUR, on the defence group because, when notifying its acquisition of a Spanish munitions manufacturer, the group concealed the parties' activities in nitrocellulose and wet paste (a mixture of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine). In response to a later request for information from the authority it also provided incomplete and misleading information; the acquisition had previously been cleared in phase one.
Merger notifications must disclose every market in which the parties are active; incomplete information is punished as obstruction of the authority even after clearance has been granted.
Complete and truthful information in merger control proceedings
- Authority / court
- Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Art. 62.3.c) und Art. 39 Ley 15/2007 de Defensa de la Competencia
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 14 May 2024
- CNMC, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 30 Apr 2026 · Direct link
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12 Mar 2024 an Italian alarm system providerAGCM fines alarm system provider €4.25m over advertising and cancellation hurdles €4.25m
The provider did not make clear in its advertising that the alarm system is only lent under an open-ended security subscription, obstructed cancellations through continued invoicing and delayed removal, started providing the service during the withdrawal period without an express request and stated the competent court unclearly. The AGCM imposed fines of 1,200,000, 2,500,000, 500,000 and 50,000 EUR, a total of 4,250,000 EUR.
Rental models must be clearly identifiable as subscriptions in advertising, and a cancellation must be implemented promptly without further billing.
Transparent subscription models and smooth cancellation
- 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, 22, 24, 26 Abs. 1 lit. f, 50 Abs. 3, 51 Abs. 8, 57 Abs. 4 lit. a Nr. 2, 66-bis Codice del consumo (D.lgs. 206/2005)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Published
- 26 Mar 2024
- AGCM, Suche nach Entscheidungen (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 12 Mar 2026 · Direct link
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21 Sep 2023 a German defence groupDefence group: €1.2m fine for market sharing in military hand grenades €1.2m
According to the European Commission's findings, the group and a competitor shared the national markets for military hand grenades in the EEA between themselves from 7 November 2007 to 23 November 2021 – the Commission's first cartel case in the defence sector. In the settlement procedure, the group received a fine of €1.2m after reductions of 50% (leniency) and 10% (settlement), the amount having first been significantly increased for deterrence; the competitor, as leniency applicant, was not fined.
In the defence sector too, sharing national markets between manufacturers is a cartel infringement.
Market sharing between competitors
- Authority / court
- Europäische Kommission
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 101 AEUV; Art. 53 EWR-Abkommen
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Mitigating circumstances
- 50% reduction under the leniency programme and 10% for the settlement.
- Published
- 21 Sep 2023
- Europäische Kommission, Presseraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 21 Sep 2025 · Direct link
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19 Jul 2023 four Spanish defence suppliersCNMC: cartel fines on defence suppliers for sharing out army contracts €6.23m
The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC, Spanish competition and markets authority) sanctioned two cartels through which companies shared out tenders of the Spanish Ministry of Defence for the maintenance and modernisation of military vehicles and for camp containers between 2016 and 2021; almost one hundred contracts worth around 60 million EUR were affected. The fines on the companies total 6,225,076 EUR (3,302,912, 1,517,944, 1,304,220 and 100,000 EUR). The decision was forwarded to the Junta Consultiva de Contratación Pública del Estado (State public procurement advisory board) with a view to a possible debarment.
Cover bids, non-participation agreements and misused bidding consortia in public tenders lead to fines and debarment; an effective compliance programme is taken into account when assessing the exclusion.
Bid rigging in public tenders
- Authority / court
- Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 1 und Art. 62.4.a) Ley 15/2007 de Defensa de la Competencia; Art. 101 AEUV; Vergabeverbot nach Art. 71.1.b) Ley 9/2017 de Contratos del Sector Público (Prüfung durch die Junta Consultiva)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Mitigating circumstances
- The CNMC assessed some of the compliance programmes submitted positively; they did not reduce the fines, but after a review in six months they may be taken into account in the decision on debarment.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
- Published
- 25 Jul 2023
- CNMC, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 19 Jul 2025 · Direct link
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1 Feb 2023 an alarm system provider in SpainAlarm system provider in Spain: 100,000 EUR because data subject rights could only be exercised via a 902 number €100,000
On the video surveillance signs that the alarm system provider supplies to its customers, only a chargeable 902 telephone number was given for access and objection requests. The Spanish data protection authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, AEPD) considered this to obstruct the exercise of rights, imposed 100,000 EUR and ordered the signs to be replaced within twelve months; the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published the decision in September 2026.
The route for exercising data subject rights must be free of charge and easily accessible, including on signs at customers' premises.
- Authority / court
- Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 12 Abs. 2, Art. 83 Abs. 5 lit. b
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Published
- 22 Sep 2026
- AEPD, Resoluciones (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
- EDSA (EDPB), Nachrichten (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 5 · Company name anonymised since 1 Feb 2025 · Direct link
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18 Oct 2022 a German defence groupBaFin fines a defence group €150,000 for late ad hoc disclosure €150,000
On 18 October 2022 BaFin (German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority) imposed a fine of 150,000 EUR on a German defence group because the company had not disclosed inside information without delay. The fine is final.
Delays in ad hoc disclosure are sanctioned; internal decision paths for publications must be designed accordingly.
Ad hoc duty: publishing inside information 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 (Verordnung (EU) Nr. 596/2014)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Defence and security
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 1 Nov 2022
- BaFin, Maßnahmen und Sanktionen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2022) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 18 Oct 2024 · Direct link