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1 Regulating Cartels in Europe A Study of Legal Control of Corporate Delinquency CHRISTOPHER HARDING and JULIAN JOSHUA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

2 CONTENTS Tables ofcases Tables oftreaties, Legislation, and Notices Glossary ofkey Terms xvi xxi xxiii Introduction: Talking about Cartels: The Main Elements of Analysis and Discussion 1 1. Epistemology: the control of cartels as a subject 1 2. Political economy: the phenomenon and concept of the anti-competitive cartel 2 3. Legal control: competition law as a model of regulation 3 4. Drama: cartel control the main actors 4 5. History: a twentieth-century overview of European cartel control 5 6. International relations: the global dimension 6 7. Pathology: antitrust delinquency as the target of legal action 7 I. Business Cartels: Sleeping with the Enemy 9 1. A history of ambivalence: is it a criminal law rap? 9 2. Defining cartel arrangements The co-operative instinct: 'the customer is our enemy' 16 (a) Collusion: the main defences The macro-economic context: typical markets? 22 (a) Markets: areas of trade and production 22 (b) Markets: private or public management The micro-economic context: the quest for supracompetitive profit Cartel dynamics: the cartel as a private treatyregime 32 (a) Inside looking out 32 (b) The business Community: 'I wanna be closer to you than I am to any customer' 34 (c) Internal organization: the leader and the pack Mapping the discussion 37

3 xii Contents II. Models of Legal Control: North America and Europe Atlantic crossing: the usual suspects, but differing perceptions and modeis of legal control Surveying perceptions of the subject: the debate on cartels The North American tradition: the delinquency of the business cartel 46 (a) Part of the American way of life 46 (b) The crime model The European experience: a culture of toleration The Quest for mens rea: differing perceptions of antitrust delinquency 55 (a) 'Conduct-oriented' antitrust: the cartel as a conspiracy 57 (b) 'Outcome-oriented' antitrust: the cartel as an instrument of damage The dilemma for European cartel regulation: which model? 60 Appendix 1 61 III. Cartels in Europe, : Das Kartellproblem The centrality of the German experience: the 'land of cartels' Cartels in economic longitude: industrialization and economic down turn Wilhelmine cartels as vehicles for order and stability The arguments against cartels and the need for regulation: das kartellproblem The wider European picture: respectable and necessary or suspect and delinquent organizations? The mid-century watershed 82 IV. Cartels in Europe, : From Registrable Agreement to Concerted Practice Post-war debates: back to the drawing board The political perspective: the cartel as a tainted organization Cartels and international trade: early attempts at international regulation 88

4 Contents xiii 4. The emergence of national regulation of cartels in Europe The national positdon(s): stocktaking in the mid-1960s 100 (a) Austria 100 (b) Belgium 101 (c) Denmark 102 (d) Finland 102 (e) France 102 (f) Germany 104 (g) The Netherlands 104 (h) Norway 105 (i) Sweden 106 (j) Britain The Common Market context The European cement market: the hardening of cartel control 113 V. A Narrative of Cartel Regulation in Europe, 1970 to the Present Time Reading a history of regulation and enforcement: a30years'war The early years of litigation The lull in litigation, European cartel litigation: a new legal industry Recovering the initiative in enforcement Changing modalities of enforcement 140 VI. Proof of Cartel Delinquency: Fashioning the European Cartel Offence 'Delinquency inflation' and the emergence of the problem of antitrust evidence Economic evidence: the significance of market context Economic evidence: the problem of parallel behaviour and 'tack collusion' Testing oligopoly argument under European law 151 (a) The argument in Dyestuffs 151 (b) The argument in Wood Pulp Forging the cartel offence: marshalling the evidence and framing the charge Collecting persuasive proof of cartel participation 164

5 xiv Contents VII. Judicial Review of Cartel Control: Testing the Evidence and Due Process The role of the Community Courts Testing the evidence: the Court of First Instance rolls up its sleeves 174 (a) The clamour for stronger review: the cartels strike back 176 (b) Exercising an 'unfettered evaluation of evidence' Judicial review and the search for due process: firing the 'big guns of constitutional artillery' The nature of the Commission's procedure Investigations and the collection of evidence Effective rights of defence and 'access to the file' The balance of legal protection 201 (a) The significance of procedure and procedural violations 202 (b) Different kinds of rights PostScript: the epistemology of the debates on judicial review 206 VIII. Negotiating Guilt: Leniency and Breaking the Code of Silence The psychology of business truce: 'your cheating heart' Leniency: the American model designing the irresistible offer Leniency: the EC model: a 'prisoner's dilemma' playground 216 (a) The St Valentine's Day Notice A European 'patchwork' of leniency: 'amnesty international'? The lessons of leniency 226 LX. Sanctions: Dealing with Business Delinquency Sanctions, censure, and effectiveness The repertoire of sanctions 230 (a) Orders to desist 231 (b) Compliance programmes 234 (c) Claims for compensation The penal option: financial penalties 240 (a) The legal character of EC fines 240 (b) The Commission as a sentencing authority 242 (c) Sentencing discounts and 'plea-bargaining' 248

6 Contents xv 4. The penal option: criminalization and imprisonment The European criminalization of cartels 258 (a) The global campaign against cartels 258 (b) Criminalization at the national level: the British model 260 (c) Problems at the interface with European law The outlook: an escalation of sanctions? 267 X. Cartel Law in the Twenty-First Century: Globalized and Criminal? Conversion, convergence, or global mosaic? Retrospective: a parallax view? The character of contemporary European cartel law 277 (a) The economist's tale: cartel law as competition law 278 (b) The prosecutor's tale: cartel law as the law of evidence 279 (c) The defence lawyer's tale: cartel law as corporate rights law 280 (d) The penologist's tale: cartel law as criminology Prospective: the globalization of cartel regulation? 284 (a) Globalizing forces: the global economy 285 (b) A globalized regulation? 286 Bibliography 291 Index 299

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