(Boursier.com) – The rumor is now official: the Competition Authority has sanctioned 21 industrial poultry and two professional organizations in the sector to pay 15.2 million euros for colluding between 2000 and 2007 “to reduce uncertainty in the course of commercial negotiations,” she wrote in a statement on Wednesday.
Sector Crisis
LDC Sable scoop the most severe penalty: it is five million. However and given the financial difficulties faced by some players, antitrust policeman decided to waive the usual rules by reducing the amount of sanctions. This is the case of Duke, whose fine was reduced by 90%, from 100,000 to one million euros, but also Ronsard, Gastronome and Galéo (-60%). Some – such as Doux- was a “major player when these practices” have even been totally exempted, in particular because of their liquidation during proceedings
The need for a legal framework.
On the merits, the Competition Authority criticized the players in question to have met illegally. The meetings “have failed to establish a genuine tariff arrangement to control the prices of wholesale and retail markets in question,” she says. Furthermore, it notes that these exchanges “on the wholesale prices recorded were not pursuing an illegal objective in itself” but require a legal framework. Simply to have a “well organized interprofessional”. The actors in question have committed to put in place.
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