Brussels, 13/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has fined 14 road bitumen companies in the Netherlands a total of 266.717 million EUR for having taken part in a price-fixing cartel, a restrictive practice which runs counter to article 81 of the Treaty. Between 1994 and 2002, eight suppliers and six buyers of road bitumen in the Netherlands set the gross price for all bitumen sold in the Netherlands and agreed on uniform minimum rebates in favour of the construction companies which were...