In a cartel between companies make arrangements to make it difficult for competitors. This may for example by fixing prices or divide the market among themselves. According to ACM, products or services by cartels soon 15 percent.
Chairman of ACM Chris Fonteijn calls such agreements “ordinary theft.” “A cartel agreement affects a healthy competitive economy and undermines citizens’ trust in companies. We call on everyone to roll with us cartels” Fonteijn says.
The regulator has made an educational video and displays on the website additional information on prohibited agreements. There is a cartel check, that doubters can check whether they may have discovered a cartel. ACM will directly approach people through social media with information on cartels.
In Confidence
The regulator hopes people through the campaign more inclined to share its evidence of cartel agreements. They can report it in confidence
ACM focuses thereby according Fonteijn on the weakest link of cartels:. “People around the cartel who know it, their hearing or to perform.”
The regulator can impose fines companies as they have forbidden agreed. The penalty for a company can amount to tens of millions of euros. From July 1 it is also possible to hand out personal fines of up to 900,000 euro
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