Brussels, 19/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - Legal advice given by a law firm or a decision of a national competition authority which causes an undertaking to engage in anti-competitive conduct does not exonerate that undertaking of commiting an infringement or exempt it from imposition of a fine. National competition authorities may, by way of exception, refrain from imposing a fine where the infringing undertaking has participated in a national leniency programme.
This decision by the European...