Ending the endless: Cartel infringements end when competition is no longer restricted, the ECJ rules
By EsqSocial Corporation 26/03/21
In previous decisions the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") had ruled that cartel infringements continue as long as they have economic effects. This was partly interpreted to mean that a bid-rigging cartel only ends with the final payment of the cartelized price or the competition of the project even if there were many years between the submission of the tender and the last payment....
By: Hogan Lovells