The European Commission has fined ten undertakings participating in five different cartels in the market of retail packaging trays.
Eight manufacturers (Huhtamäki of Finland, Nespak and Vitembal of France, Silver Plastics of Germany, Coopbox, Magic Pack and Sirap-Gema of Italy and Linpac of the UK) and two distributors (Ovarpack of Portugal and Propack of the UK) have been found colluding in different geographic areas of Europe, through price fixing, costumer allocation, bid rigging and exchange of commercially sensitive information.
The investigations started with a leniency application by Linpac, which consequently benefited from immunity. The Commission observed that each undertaking was involved at least in one of the five cartel and has imposed a total fine amounting to € 115.865.000.
Source: European Commission
Author: Claudio Lombardi
http://clombardi 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.
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The European Commission has fined ten undertakings participating in five different cartels in the market of retail packaging trays.
