CARTEL FINES
July 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALLA SECOND bid by a group of district heating companies to overturn massive fines levied by the European Commission, which found they had been participating in an illegal cartel, should be thrown out by the European Court of Justice, an ECJ advocate general has recommended. Antonio Tizzano has asked judges to dismiss claims brought by Denmark's Dansk Rorindustri A/S and LR AF 1998 A/S; Germany's the Isoplus Group, KE-KELIT Kunststoffwerk, Brugg Rohrsysteme, LR AF 1998 (Deutschland) and Britain's ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. The British company is faced ...
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