{"id":237,"date":"2005-10-24T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-24T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T12:05:21","slug":"role-of-the-european-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Role of the European Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has fined four Italian tobacco processors a total of \u20ac56 million for colluding over a period of more than six years on the prices paid to growers and other intermediaries and on the allocation of suppliers. Such collusion is outlawed by the EC Treaty&#8217;s ban on restrictive business practices (Article 81). <\/p>\n<p>The Commission noted that one of the cartel members which had applied for lenient treatment committed a serious breach of its leniency confidentiality obligations and so did not receive full immunity from fines.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f0f0f0\">More information <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu.int\/rapid\/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP\/05\/1315&amp;format=HTML&amp;aged=0&amp;language=EN&amp;guiLanguage=en\">here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has fined four Italian tobacco processors a total of \u20ac56 million for colluding over a period of more than six years on the prices paid to growers and other intermediaries and on the allocation of suppliers. Such collusion is outlawed by the EC Treaty&#8217;s ban on restrictive business practices (Article 81). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}