That the two organizations Tuesday known. According to the consumer organisations have the electronics companies with their cartel of consumers adversely affected. They paid for many years to many for televisions and computer screens.
The European Commission imposed earlier in 2012, already a substantial fine. After long litigation, the European Court at the end of last year that the kartelbedrijven an amount of nearly 1.5 billion euro have to pay. An appeal against it is still pending.
The Consumers association and ConsumentenClaim have in recent years tried with Philips to agree on a compensation. The company wants, according to the organizations, however, only his own customers to satisfy, not those of the other members of the cartel. Therefore, the case is still in court.
“We ask the court to session to keep up with all the cartel parties to appear”, says director Bart Combée of the Consumers. “So we want to be with the right arrangements on the vervolgaanpak. For example, this is necessary because the participants come from different countries.” It is the first collective procedure, which in the Netherlands is launched for consumers on the liability for cartels.
A spokesman for Philips spoke of “a complex case”, given the involvement of several foreign companies. “We understand that these parties are matter to the court wish to submit and wait for the next steps,” he said.
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