SÜDZUCKER FACES DAMAGES ACTIONS FOLLOWING THE GERMAN SUGAR CARTEL DECISION

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Vivil, a German producer of cough drops and vitamin sweets, sued Südzucker, Europe’s largest sugar refiner, for compensation of damages caused by the German ‘sugar cartel’. The defendant participated, together with Nordzucker and Pfeifer, to anticompetitive agreements on sales areas, quotas and prices. The infringements involved the sale of sugar for the processing industry (so-called industrial…

THE SPANISH COMPETITION AUTHORITY (CNMC) IMPOSES A FINE OF EUR 8.75 MILLION TO REPSOL FOR NOT COMPLYING WITH A PREVIOUS DECISION

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In 2009, the CNMC sanctioned Repsol, Cepsa and BP for indirectly fixing the retail price charged to independent petrol stations that operated under their flag. In doing so, they restricted competition between the petrol stations of their network and all the other petrol stations. This decision aimed at avoiding price fixing of the fuel in…