Chillin'Competition

Relaxing whilst doing Competition Law is not an Oxymoron

Veggie OD

leave a comment »

Sorry, can’t help it.

It is now the Commission that puts food on the table.

Yesterday, the Commission announced a 169,000,000€ fine in the Freight Forwarders cartel.

On this occasion, it announced that some cartel participants had organised their contacts in a so-called “Gardening Club” and that they had used coded language based on names of vegetables – such as “asparagus” and “baby courgettes” –  when talking about fixing prices…

Thanks again to Aoife White for the pointer

Written by Nicolas Petit

29 March 2012 at 9:33 am

Posted in Uncategorized

«
»

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: