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the Dutch Antitrust starts an investigation in order to ascertain if the bunkeraggio societies have constituted trusts
Under investigation the companies that operate in the ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp
July 13, 2017
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has started an investigation in order to assess if the fuel suppliers for ships that operate in the ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp have constituted trusts tightening not lawful agreements in order to agree the selling prices of the bunker.
The authority Dutch antitrust has specified that the investigation is decided as a result of information on the field of the bunkeraggio coming from the police organs that are transmitted to the ACM from the Dutch Procura. Moreover the ACM has remembered to have previously carried out controls in this field, in which dozens of present companies of bunkeraggio in the three ports operate.
The authority antitrust has exhorted to send information, suggestions and indications about the possible trusts you mail in existence from the societies, remembering that such information can reach also from the same companies that take part of a trust and from employee theirs, that they could in such a way benefit of the previewed favorable treatment in these cases from the norms and of a reduction of the endorsements. The fines for the trust activities can reach a value pairs to 40% of the turnover of the company, while the single people who have carried out activity of coordination within a trust can be fined with fines until 900 thousand euros.
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