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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9558

6 December 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission fines producers of chloroprene rubber € 243.2 million

Brussels, 05/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has imposed a total of €243 210 000 fines on the Bayer, Denka, DuPont, Dow, ENI and Tosoh groups for participating in a cartel for chloroprene rubber in the European Economic Area (EEA) in violation of the EC Treaty (Article 81). Between 1993 and 2002, these companies shared a market worth €160 million, and in 2001 fixed the prices for chloroprene rubber. This product is used as an adhesive, such as latex for the production...

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