On 7 April 2016, the CNMC (Spain's National Authority for Markets and Competition) Council imposed fines totalling €6.12 million on six Spanish nougat ("turrón") producers for agreeing to share the…
Mark Katz and Alysha Manji-Knight
Introduction
Combatting corruption in public procurement is a top enforcement priority of the Canadian government. Canada's Competition Bureau ("Bureau") plays a…
The result is in. The United Kingdom will leave the European Union, with profound economic, social, and, naturally, legal consequences. As the dust settles, lawyers practising across a wide range…
On 1 March 2016, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") adopted its new Leniency Guidelines ("the 2016 Leniency Guidelines"). The 2016 Leniency Guidelines replace the 2007 Notice of the…
In all competition investigations, it is inevitable that the parties under investigation, and often also third parties, will receive numerous information requests and demands to produce documents and…
Longstanding CCPC dawn raid practice to copy electronic data (including entire email accounts) for later off-site review by investigators is unlawful according to a recent ruling of the Irish…
Once upon a time, but not so long ago, a certain company received a request for information (“RFI”) from the European Commission (in the form of a binding decision). This RFI was nothing like any…
In her recent opinion, Advocate General J. Kokott went over one of the most important elements for companies facing cartel sanction: the fines calculation method. If this specific point is often…
by Anita Banicevic and Mark Katz[1]
2015 saw a number of interesting developments in cartel enforcement in Canada, the most important of which were setbacks suffered by Canada's competition…
