cartel agreement

We then raised the question of whether there were any cartel agreements.

Are you able to envisage cartel agreements involving international food producers?

And can anyone claim that the Commission's investigation of only eight banks in connection with a possible cartel agreement is adequate?

The general prohibition of cartel agreements is lifted under certain conditions; these are the exemption regulations.

For the courts to recognize that a conspiracy has ended, the conspirator must make an open, public break with the cartel agreement.

The aim of such collusion (also called the cartel agreement) is to increase individual members' profits by reducing competition.

In general, cartel agreements are difficult to negotiate because potential members typically have different ideal collusive prices.

Now, however, companies which produce oil from oil shale have apparently raised their prices considerably through a cartel agreement.

Internationally it entered into a de facto cartel agreement with Canada, whereby export prices were kept low enough to discourage new producers.

The cartel agreement established a scale of equivalents to manage the exchange of military officers and enlisted personnel.

This mechanism has helped a lot in detecting cartel agreements in the EU.

In the public cartel a government is involved to enforce the cartel agreement, and the government's sovereignty shields such cartels from legal actions.

The European Community increased its pressure on major airlines Fridayto abandon cartel agreements that set fares and routes.

I recommended you and also voted personally for you, because I thought it important to break with ten years of cartel agreements between the two largest groups.

The total order for 298 tanks was split equally by Škoda Works and ČKD according to their cartel agreement.

But once the regional agency has put into place an accounting system to punish farmers who violate the cartel agreement, it will almost certainly try to flex some muscle.

Under cartel agreements, the identity and properties both of Sontochin and of Resochin had been disclosed to the Winthrop Chemical Company.

The barriers take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements, national market organisations (such as co-operatives or trade associations) which discriminate against other EC nationals, and abusive monopolisation of markets.

The Commission can and must take action in accordance with the rules, which have three different spheres of application: agreements or cartel agreements which are generally prohibited, abuse of a dominant market position, and public subsidies.

There were over 2,000 cartel agreements between IG Farben and foreign firms - including Standard Oil of New Jersey, DuPont, Dow Chemical Company, and others in the United States.

The Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V), with whom the N-VA had an electoral cartel agreement, stated they didn't want to be in league with Dedecker and broke off the association.

We are of course in favour of rigorous measures being taken to deal with cartel agreements, but control measures, whether at national or European level, must not be designed in such a way that free competition is hampered by red tape.

This should become an important part of the struggle against cartels, which is important both for the better functioning of the common market and in order to protect consumer rights, because consumer prices may rise as much as 25% due to cartel agreements.

The large cash payment that Mr Hradsky had to make to you gentlemen and the limitation of output from his diamond mines in terms of the new cartel agreements in the diamond industry have forced him to borrow heavily on all his banks.