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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8149

13 February 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 15 / 29
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission encourages companies to blow whistle on cartels

Brussels, 12/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the European Commission is expected to endorse a Communication prepared by DG Competition encouraging companies to blow the whistle more (or earlier) on cartels. At the moment, only the first company denouncing an illegal agreement it is involved in can have its fine reduced (the scale of the reduction depends on the speed at which it informs on the practice and the quality of the information it supplies). Since the rules came into force...

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