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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13275

20 October 2023
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 37
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Competition
Commission imposes fines totalling €13.4 million on six pharmaceutical companies involved in cartel
Brussels, 19/10/2023 (Agence Europe)

On Thursday 19 October, the European Commission announced that it had imposed fines totalling €13.4 million on six companies in the pharmaceuticals sector that engaged in a cartel between 1 November 2005 and 17 September 2019: Alkaloids of Australia, Alkaloids Corporation, Boehringer, Linnea and Transo-Pharm, with C2 PHARMA benefitting from the European leniency programme as it disclosed the cartel to the Commission and was exempted from fines.

The cartel, which took place within...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
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JUSTICE: harmonisation of insolvency rules and fight against impunity for Russian leaders in relation to Ukraine on agenda of EU countries
DIGITAL: Commission requests information from Meta and TikTok on measures taken to stop dissemination of illegal content online
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ENVIRONMENT: European Commission is preparing regulations on minimum hygiene requirements for materials coming into contact with drinking water
ENVIRONMENT: neonicotinoids, Belgian Council of State annuls Belgium’s abusive derogations following ruling of Court of Justice of EU
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CLIMATE: ETS, European Commission announces new auctioning regulation to include new sectors and enhance transparency
TRANSPORT: number of road deaths in EU rose between 2021 and 2022
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AGRICULTURE: European Parliament calls for protein strategy but one excluding cell-based foods
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RESEARCH: Christian Elher and Iliana Ivanova agree on need for adequate funding for research in Europe
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