The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has implemented regulations for the leniency-plus regime, allowing companies involved in cartelisation to report other cartels and receive reduced penalties. The CCI can reduce penalties by up to 30% for involvement in the first cartel and up to 100% for newly-disclosed cartels. The amount of penalty reduction will be based on the evidence provided by the applicant.
The Federal Cartel Office which is Germany's antitrust regulator on Wednesday (January 11) criticised Google's way of handling users' data and threatened action against the American technological giant. According to a statement, the office sent Alphabet Inc, Google Ireland Ltd, and Google Germany GmbH, its preliminary legal assessment in the proceeding initiated due to Google’s data processing terms.
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