Antitrust Antitrust

Conserve Italia can’t claim association status to avoid EUR20 million cartel fine, judges say

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 04 Sep 2024 10:37
  • 04 Sep 2024 16:41
Italian agricultural cooperative Conserve Italia today saw EU judges rule that the bloc’s antitrust enforcers were correct to treat it as a commercial entity, and to fine it 20 million euros (around $22.1 million). 
“Conserve Italia is engaged in an economic activity, namely the sale of products, in particular on the market

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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