In an effort to enhance cartel detection in Kenya, the
Competition Authority of Kenya (
CAK) has launched
an Informants Reward Scheme (
Scheme), which
financially incentivises individuals to blow the whistle on
cartel-type activities.
The CAK identifies cartel-type activities as agreements which
amount to price fixing, market division, collusive tendering,
maintenance of minimum resale prices and controlling production
levels. The Scheme also extends to abuses of dominance,
implementation of notifiable mergers without CAK approval and other
consumer-type offences.
The objective of the Scheme, according to the CAK, is to deepen its intelligence gathering capacities with regard to such
clandestine operations using informants who are close to the
As parts of its strategy to renew and upgrade the rules governing digital services in the EU, the European Commission has now presented what is referred to as the Digital Services Act package.
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Vertical relations between suppliers and distributors are
subject to the principles set out in the Article 4 of the Act no
4054. Subsequently the Block Exemption Communiqué on
Vertical Agreements
1 (“Communiqué”)
entered into force as secondary legislation and the Guidelines on
Vertical Agreements
2 has been published by the Turkish
Competition Authority (“TCA”) to clarify the
implementation. The rules in the Communiqué regarding the
implementation of competition law in terms of vertical relations
are largely in line with the Vertical Block Exemption
Regulation
3 (VBER), which is currently in force in
A significant amendment
2
(
Law ) as to on-site inspections,
providing legal ground for the already-existing implementation of
the Turkish Competition Authority
(
TCA ), was introduced on June 24,
2020. Accordingly, the TCA s legal authority is now regulated
in a more detailed and explicit way allowing the case officers of
the TCA to examine and obtain copies of the files, any information
and document stored in physical and electronic media as well as
information systems of the undertakings and the associations of
undertakings during the on-site inspections. Following the
amendment, the TCA has published the Guideline on Examination of
Digital Data During On-Site Inspections
3 dated October
Introduction
As part of our ongoing series on Canada s deferred
prosecution agreement (
DPA ) program,
we have considered the use of DPAs in other jurisdictions,
including in the United States of America, where we are seeing an
increased use of DPAs in the antitrust sphere. In this bulletin, we
look again to the United States, and discuss the DPA recently entered into by Argos USA LLC
(
Argos ) with the United States
Department of Justice (the
DOJ ).
The Argos DPA
On January 4, 2021, the DOJ announced that it had charged Argos,
a producer and seller of ready-mix concrete headquartered in
Georgia, with participating in a conspiracy to fix prices, rig