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What does Cartels mean? In legal practice, a cartel is secret or coordinated conduct between competing businesses to remove or reduce rivalry. It typically involves price‑fixing, allocating customers or territories, bid‑rigging, limiting output, or exchanging commercially sensitive information so as to influence market outcomes. “Cartel” is a descriptive term. The underlying prohibitions are found in competition law: in the UK, the Chapter I prohibition in the Competition Act 1998 (mirroring Article 101 TFEU concepts of agreements and concerted practices between undertakings), and the criminal cartel offence for individuals under the Enterprise Act 2002. In Ireland, section 4 of the Competition Act 2002 (as amended) and...

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Automotive wire harnesses cartels (COMP/39.748): European Commission Article 101 TFEU decision imposing €141m fines; tender rigging in bids to Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Renault; leniency, settlements, Sumitomo immunity

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CASE HUB ARCHIVED –this archived case hub reflects the position at the date of the decision of 10 July 2013; it is no longer maintained.

This archived hub records the position as at the decision date of 10 July 2013 and is not maintained.

Case facts

Outline: European Commission Article 101 TFEU investigation into five Cartels within the market for wire harnesses for cars (case number COMP/39.748).

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On 10 July 2013, the Commission handed down its Infringement decision and levied fines totalling €141m. Sumitomo received immunity from fines after it brought the cartels to the Commission’s attention, admitted wrongdoing and co-operated fully...

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