Brussels, 20/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the Commission fined 30 companies which produce copper fittings a total of 314.7 million EUR for having taken part in a price-fixing agreement between 1988 and 2004. This sum, the fifth-highest ever for a cartel, concerns 11 groups of companies which set prices, discounts and rebates, agreed on mechanisms to coordinate price increases, allocated customers and exchanged commercially important and confidential information. (A fitting...