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Pometon's cartel fine should be reduced, says EU legal opinion

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 08 Oct 2020 06:49
  • 08 Oct 2020 06:49

Metal manufacturer Pometon should have its fine for participating in a steel abrasives cartel reduced by 1.2 million euros to 2.6 million euros ($3 million), according to an opinion prepared for the EU’s top court.
Advocate General Gerard Hogan recommended setting aside a judgment by a lower court that had

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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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