Spain: National Assembly strikes down Sacyr fine of €15.2 million

Spain’s foremost legal body has struck down a fine of €15.2 million euros that the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) imposed on Sacyr in January 2015, for allegedly forming a cartel in the garbage collection sector, along with some thirty other companies.

In its ruling, the National Assembly held that in the CNMC’s decision “there is no basis to assume that it participated or was aware of a joint action plan involving other companies whose relationship with the appellant is simply non-existent.”

For the Assembly, the arguments presented by the ‘superregulator’ “do not manage to solve the pitfall of the absence of any evidence that proves the concurrence of requirements that define a single and continuous infringement …”

In addition to Sacyr, Urbaser, then a subsidiary of ACS, FCC and Cespa (Ferrovial), were also fined within the framework of this sanction. The CNMC at the time indicated that it was one of the “largest and most complex cartels” detected and one of the largest fines imposed by the authority. “

Full Content: El Economista

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