HEINEKEN-CARLSBERG CASE
November 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has - somewhat grudgingly it appears - called off its investigation into alleged market sharing agreements between the large international brewers Carlsberg of Denmark and Heineken of the Netherlands. Brussels said it found no evidence that the suspected infringement continued after May 1995 and noted that under EU rules it had no power to fine companies where abuses could not be proved in the five years preceding the start of an investigation - in this case 2000.This was a high profile case, involving surprise raids on the ...
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