GERMAN CARMAKERS FINED OVER EUR875 MILLION FOR ADBLUE CARTEL
July 1st, 2021
The European Commission has fined German carmakers BMW and Volkswagen (makers of the Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen marques) EUR875,189,000 for operating a cartel restricting competition in emission-cleaning technology for diesel cars for over five years. Another German carmaker, Daimler, escaped a fine for revealing the cartel existed to the Commission, under 2006 leniency notice provisions (1) that spare the first cartel member that comes clean about its existence. From June 2009 to October 2014, BMW, Daimler and the others all from the Volkswagen Group, met ...
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