ntitrust Division ended the year with the second
AIn its fight against cartels and other anti-competitive behaviour in the year 2006 of the antitrust division scored its second highest level of criminal fines obtained in the department of history. The department can also experienced increases in merger has more demands and challenges of merging the two previous years, announced the Ministry of Justice.
In addition, the Division of initiatives to improve the analysis of civil non-merger of behaviour, both the USA and internationally, and participated in several U.S. Supreme Court cases important to improve on the monitoring of antitrust regulation.
“The Division results reflect the hard work of its employees, are forced too aggressive, but balanced implementation of the agreements,” said Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General in the department of anti-trust division. “Thanks to its compliance with rules ensuring that the illegal conduct is stopped, procompetitive transactions can go and companies are able to behave in a broad competition leads to lower prices, better quality and more choice for consumers. ”
Cartel Enforcement
Anticompetitive behaviour of criminal cartels - as agreements on prices, supply Rigging, acquisition and fraud - remains the first priority of the implementation of the anti-trust division. For the year ending September 30, 2006, the Division of fines won a total of 473445600 euros, which represents an increase of 29 percent compared to 2005 GJ and 33 cases, criminal cases, many of whom are several defendants. (See table).
Fiscal 2006 was 5383 days of imprisonment imposed for price fixing, bid Rigging, disability, fraud and anticompetitive behavior. And since the December 15, 2006, just months after the beginning of GJ 2007, the Division has already obtained rates a total of 9,135 days in prison.
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