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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
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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Where?
by authority- Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (BMA) €23.1m 94 % · 2 cases
- Autorité des services et marchés financiers (FSMA) €1.24m 5 % · 4 cases
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse €243,176 1 % · 2 cases
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse; Cour des marchés €5,000 0 % · 1 case
What for?
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Who?
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When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 1 | €157,176 |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €11.2m |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €10,000 |
| Q4 2025 | 2 | €80,000 |
| Q1 2026 | 1 | €11.9m |
| Q2 2026 | 3 | €1.24m |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
9 cases
12 Feb 2026 DPG Media nv; Mediahuis nv; PPP Belgium bv; bpost nv (Kronzeuge)Press concession: 11.9 million EUR for collusion in newspaper delivery tender €11.9m
So that bpost would obtain the state concession for newspaper delivery for 2023–2027, its competitor PPP refrained from submitting a bid and in return received additional delivery volumes from DPG Media and Mediahuis (bid rigging). In a settlement procedure, the Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (Belgian Competition Authority, BMA) imposed 3,786,574 EUR (DPG Media), 7,788,423 EUR (Mediahuis) and 323,486 EUR (PPP); bpost, as leniency applicant, received full immunity, and two bpost employees involved were fined a total of 6,300 EUR.
Agreements on who participates in a tender are hardcore cartels – individuals are also liable, and leniency applicants benefit.
Collusion in public tenders
- Authority / court
- Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (BMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Code de droit économique Art. IV.1; AEUV Art. 101
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Mitigating circumstances
- Leniency programme (immunity for bpost; reductions of 50% and 40% for DPG Media and Mediahuis respectively) and 10% settlement reduction.
- Liability of senior managers
- First-ever fines against two natural persons (employed by bpost), totalling 6,300 EUR.
- Published
- 13 Feb 2026
- BMA – Communiqué de presse N° 6/2026 (13.02.2026) Press release of an authority
- BMA – Beslissing BMA-2026-RPR-04-AUD (Krantenconcessie), publieke versie, 12.02.2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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26 Jun 2026 Banque Degroof Petercam SABanque Degroof Petercam: 1 million EUR settlement over hidden costs in employee stock options €1m
In stock option plans for employees of client companies (2018–2023), the bank did not fully inform the beneficiaries about costs, had initially not recorded the conflicts of interest in this business and assessed clients’ knowledge only with a yes/no question. The Autorité des services et marchés financiers (Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority, FSMA) accepted a settlement of 1 million EUR with publication by name and commitments on cost information.
Full cost transparency and a dedicated conflicts register also apply to ancillary business such as employee stock option plans.
- Authority / court
- Autorité des services et marchés financiers (FSMA)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
- Legal basis
- Loi du 2 août 2002; Wohlverhaltensregeln (Loyalität, Kostentransparenz, bestmögliche Ausführung, Interessenkonflikte, Kundenkenntnis)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Repeat case
- yes
- Mitigating circumstances
- Remediation of all deficiencies (appropriateness test, conflicts policy, cost disclosure, waiver of CVA/KVA discounts).
- Published
- 26 Jun 2026
- FSMA – Règlement transactionnel Banque Degroof Petercam (26.06.2026) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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12 May 2026 Société Wallonne des Eaux (SWDE)SWDE: 86,000 EUR for call recordings without sufficient transparency €86,000
The Walloon water utility recorded and listened in on customer calls for quality control and training purposes; the Litigation Chamber of the Autorité de protection des données (Belgian Data Protection Authority, APD/GBA) found infringements of transparency and fairness as well as in the engagement of a sub-processor. It imposed two fines totalling 86,000 EUR (85,000 + 1,000) after reducing the amounts in view of the situation of the public utility; an appeal against the decision has been lodged with the Market Court.
Anyone recording customer calls must clearly communicate purpose, legal basis and the parties involved in advance and engage service providers under proper contracts.
Recording of customer calls
- Authority / court
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 12 Abs. 1, Art. 13, Art. 28 Abs. 3
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- APD – Décision quant au fond n° 102/2026 du 12 mai 2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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5 May 2026 P&V Assurances SCP&V Assurances: 150,000 EUR – distribution via a deregistered insurance intermediary €150,000
One of the insurer’s intermediaries was removed from the FSMA register in December 2023; owing to a human data entry error in the monitoring tool, P&V only noticed this after more than a month and concluded 34 contracts through him during that time. The Autorité des services et marchés financiers (Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority, FSMA) accepted a settlement of 150,000 EUR; there had already been a settlement for the same amount in 2020.
Automated register checks are only as good as the underlying data maintenance – critical entries require a four-eyes principle.
Care in master data maintenance / register reconciliation
- Authority / court
- Autorité des services et marchés financiers (FSMA)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
- Legal basis
- Loi du 4 avril 2014 relative aux assurances, Art. 259
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Repeat case
- yes
- Mitigating circumstances
- IT adjustments to prevent recurrence.
- Published
- 5 May 2026
- FSMA – Règlement transactionnel P&V Assurances SC (05.05.2026) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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27 Nov 2025 Infobel SAInfobel: data broker sold consumer data for direct marketing without legal basis €5,000
The address broker (formerly Kapitol) had passed on the complainant’s data via a media agency to an advertiser for direct marketing without being able to demonstrate valid consent. The Autorité de protection des données (Belgian Data Protection Authority, APD) imposed 40,000 EUR and ordered erasure and information of the recipients; on 3 June 2026 the Cour des marchés (Brussels Market Court) set aside these parts and itself set the fine at 5,000 EUR.
Data brokers must be able to prove for every record on which legal basis it was collected and resold.
- Authority / court
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse; Cour des marchés
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 24
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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21 Oct 2025 Taxshelter.be SATaxshelter.be: 75,000 EUR for missing prospectus supplement on guarantee risks €75,000
After the tax authority had refused the tax shelter certificates for a financed show and the insurer left cover open, the provider failed to inform investors of this material risk in good time by means of a prospectus supplement. The Autorité des services et marchés financiers (Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority, FSMA) accepted a settlement of 75,000 EUR with publication by name.
New material risks for investors trigger an immediate obligation to publish a supplement – not only in the next annual prospectus.
- Authority / court
- Autorité des services et marchés financiers (FSMA)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- Verordnung (EU) 2017/1129 Art. 23; Loi du 11 juillet 2018 (Loi Prospectus)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 21 Oct 2025
- FSMA – Règlement transactionnel Taxshelter.be (21.10.2025) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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16 Sep 2025 Go West Invest SAGo West Invest: 10,000 EUR for outdated information note in tax shelter offering €10,000
From June 2021 to October 2024, the company, which raises tax shelter funds through public offerings, kept a public offering on its website with an information note from 2020 without publishing an updated note and filing it with the Autorité des services et marchés financiers (Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority, FSMA); several dozen investors with an investment volume of under 5 million EUR were affected. The FSMA accepted a settlement of 10,000 EUR.
Investor information has an expiry date – a deadline calendar for mandatory documents prevents infringements.
- Authority / court
- Autorité des services et marchés financiers (FSMA)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- Loi du 11 juillet 2018 (Loi Prospectus), Art. 10, 11
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 16 Sep 2025
- FSMA – Règlement transactionnel SA Go West Invest (16.09.2025) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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24 Apr 2025 Johnson & Johnson Consumer NV; Boehringer Ingelheim SComm; Haleon Belgium NVJohnson & Johnson, Boehringer, Haleon: 11.2 million EUR for shelf-placement collusion in pharmacies €11.2m
Over more than 15 years, the three OTC medicine manufacturers jointly developed the category management project ‘SMAN’, through which they steered the placement of non-prescription medicines in selected pharmacies in their favour and disadvantaged or excluded competing products. In a settlement procedure, the Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (Belgian Competition Authority, BMA) imposed a total of 11,249,280.48 EUR.
Category management agreements with retailers must not push competitors off the shelf – joint planograms with competitors are off limits.
Competition law limits of category management
- Authority / court
- Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (BMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Code de droit économique Art. IV.1; AEUV Art. 101
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 24 Apr 2025
- BMA – Communiqué de presse N°16/2025 (24.04.2025) Press release of an authority
- BMA – Beslissing BMA-2025-RPR-13-AUD (SMAN), publieke versie Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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16 Jan 2024 Black Tiger Belgium (vormals Bisnode Belgium)Black Tiger Belgium: fine for non-transparent data trading, reduced by 10% in court €157,176
The data broker processed data obtained from third-party sources (including the companies register) on a large scale and over a long period without proactively informing the data subjects; access requests were answered incompletely and the record of processing activities had gaps. The Autorité de protection des données (Belgian Data Protection Authority, APD) imposed three fines totalling 174,640 EUR and prohibited, among other things, the ‘Data Quality’ service until data subjects had been informed; on 4 September 2024 the Brussels Market Court set aside the orders and reduced the fines by 10% to a total of 157,176 EUR.
Anyone collecting data indirectly must actively inform data subjects – legitimate interest does not hold where laws prohibit further use.
- Authority / court
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO – Rechtmäßigkeit, Fairness und Transparenz, Auskunftsrecht, Verzeichnis von Verarbeitungstätigkeiten
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Mitigating circumstances
- Discontinuation of the ‘Data Delivery’ service and destruction of the CMX consumer database.
- Published
- 16 Jan 2024
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link