Review of the 1998 OECD Recommendation concerning Effective Action against Hard Core Cartels / OECD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartels.

Competition, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This report reviews the implementation and relevance of the former 1998 OECD Council Recommendation concerning Effective Action against Hard Core Cartels [OECD/LEGAL/0294] and highlights recent developments since its adoption. It concludes that the fight against hard core cartels has been a priority of competition law enforcement, and that the 1998 Recommendation should be updated.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Background.

Chapter 2. Key findings

Chapter 3. Definition of hard core cartels.

3.1. Background and developments

3.2. Conclusions and steps forward

Chapter 4. Exemptions and defences.

4.1. Background and developments

4.2. Conclusions and steps forward

Chapter 5. Detection of hard core cartels

5.1. Adequate detection powers

5.2. Reactive detection tools - leniency

5.3. Other reactive detection tools

5.4. Pro-active detection methods.

5.5. Results of the 2017 Survey on ex officio investigations.

5.6. Conclusions and steps forward

Notes.

Chapter 6. Investigative powers

6.1. Developments 1998 - 2016

6.2. Results of the 2017 Survey on Investigative Powers.

6.3. Conclusions and steps forward

Notes

Chapter 7. Case Resolution

7.1. Decisions in Hard Core Cartel Cases.

7.2. Commitments

7.3. Settlements and Plea Negotiation

7.4. Conclusions and steps forward

Chapter 8. Sanctions against hard core cartel activity

8.1. Background

8.2. Monetary sanctions.

8.3. Non-monetary sanctions

8.4. Developments 1998 - 2016.

8.5. Results of the 2017 Survey on Sanctions

8.6. Conclusions and steps forward.

Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

92-64-67816-6