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Cartels definition

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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EFTA competition enforcement tracker: closed behavioural investigations under Articles 101/102 TFEU (cartels, anti-competitive agreements, abuse of a dominant position), 2016–2022

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This table outlines every concluded inquiry by the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) into suspected Cartels, anti‑competitive arrangements, and misuse of dominance (Articles 101/102 TFEU) from 2016 onwards.

Note—only those investigations that have been disclosed publicly appear in this table.

2022

Investigations under Article 101 TFEU

EFTA issued no decisions under Article 101 in the year 2022.

Investigations under Article 102 TFEU

EFTA issued no decisions under Article 102 TFEU in the year 2022.

2021

Investigations under Article 101 TFEU

EFTA issued no decisions under Article 101 in the year 2021.

Investigations under Article 102 TFEU

EFTA made no decisions under Article 102 at all...

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