The establishment of robust corporate compliance programmes is beneficial to firms individually as well as to the economy as a whole by helping prevent anti-competitive behaviour. Competition authorities worldwide have sought to stimulate such voluntary compliance by issuing detailed guidance...

On 15 January 2008, the Bundeskartellamt celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in Bonn. This ceremony enabled the competition family to rejoice for one of its members and to celebrate a half century of independent regulation of competition and of peaceful contribution of competition to economic...

Competition authorities in Europe have strived to preserve the stigma attached to cartel behavior, notwithstanding recurring calls to carve out an exception for a specific sector, while making sure competition policy is in tune with evolving commercial strategies and provides answers to...