Leniency—What Exactly are the Implications for the Applying Undertaking in the European Union?

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Marcin Trepka, Sep 16, 2015

Leniency programs are one of the most revolutionary solutions introduced into cartel detection and prosecution systems in the last few decades. Leniency has increasingly become a powerful tool at the disposal of the antitrust authorities who frequently rely on it in fighting cartels. Due to the fact that many of the large global cartels have been identified and investigated as a result of immunity appli