S H E A R M A N & S T E R L I N G L L P | 5 5
CARTELS
Since the introduction of the European
Commission's (EC) settlement procedure in
2008, just over one in five of all its settlement
cases have involved at least one party
dropping out of the settlement procedure.
1
This has usually led to settlement and
standard infringement proceedings being
pursued in tandem against the various
participants of the same cartel. Such hybrid
cases have turned out to be a more frequent
occurrence than "the exception" that the EC
had initially envisaged.
2
Continued overleaf
RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS
IN HYBRID
SETTLEMENT
CASES
BY ELVIRA ALIENDE RODRIGUEZ AND AGOSTINO BIGNARDI
