The German Federal Cartel Office releases new and more stringent fining guidelines
On 25 June 2013, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) released new fining guidelines for competition law infringements. The new fining guidelines implement the German Federal Court of Justice’s recent decision, in which it overturned the current interpretation of Section 81(4), subsection 2 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) as the applicable […]