Paragraph 4 CartelsF1

co-ordinating their competitive behaviour in a market, or

otherwise influencing competition in a market,

fixing or co-ordinating purchase or selling prices or other trading conditions, including in relation to intellectual property rights,

allocating production or sales quotas, and

sharing markets and customers, including bid-rigging, restrictions of imports or exports or anti-competitive actions against other competitors.

an undertaking that has participated in a cartel may provide the competition authority with information about the cartel and the undertaking’s involvement in it, and

if it does so voluntarily and independently of the other cartel members, the competition authority may give the undertaking immunity from, or a reduction in, a financial penalty which would otherwise be payable by the undertaking for its participation in the cartel.

consists of information about a cartel and the person’s role in relation to the cartel,

is provided voluntarily, and

is provided specifically for the purposes of the competition authority’s cartel leniency programme,

“pre-existing information” means information that exists irrespective of a competition authority’s investigations, and

the fact that information is in a competition authority’s file does not prevent it from being pre-existing information.

a part of a cartel leniency statement,

a quotation from a cartel leniency statement,

all or part of a record of a cartel leniency statement, and

a copy of all or part of a cartel leniency statement or of a record of such a statement.

take evidence from the author of the document, and

obtain assistance from a competition authority,