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 sugar) and sugar for the end consumer (so-called retail sugar) and were sanctioned by the Bundeskartellamt with a decision issued on 18 February 2014.
Vivil is now claiming compensation for damages caused by such infringements, calculating the amount in 1.3 million Euros.
The proceeding has been initiated before the Regional Court of Mannheim. The defendant undertaking has revealed that this is just one of a number of damages actions initiated on the basis of the same decision of the German Antitrust Authority.
Source: Reuters

Categories: Cartels, Damages Actions, PRIVATE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENTBy Claudio Lombardi March 23, 2015 Leave a comment

Tags: cartels damages actions follow-on action private antitrust enforcement

Author: Claudio Lombardi

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Claudio Lombardi is editor-in-chief of the Antitrust Observatory. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and at the Europa-Kolleg Institute for European Integration, Hamburg. Claudio is also a visiting lecturer at the International University College of Turin (IUC). Before joining the Max-Planck, Claudio was a research fellow at the Higher School of Economics and Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development, Moscow, where he worked, with Prof. Ioannis Lianos (UCL), on a project on competition law and policy in the global food value chain, involving the cooperation of numerous national and international institutions. Prior to joining the Institute, he was a PhD student (competition law) and tutor (in private law) at the University of Trento and a Max-Planck Institute guest researcher (MPRIV – Hamburg). Claudio was also awarded a DAAD Grant of the Europa-Kolleg Institute of Hamburg in 2013 and an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for doctoral researchers in 2012. You can write him at clombardi27 at gmail.com

SÜDZUCKER FACES DAMAGES ACTIONS FOLLOWING THE GERMAN SUGAR CARTEL DECISION

Author: Claudio Lombardi

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