Law

Hauke Brettel / Stephan Thomas

Compliance und Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit im Kartellrecht

[Compliance and Corporate Responsibility in Antitrust Law.]

2016. IX, 124 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-154652-5
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Published in German.
What are the principles for attributing individual conduct of representatives to a corporation and to what extent is it necessary to consider compliance programmes implemented by the respective undertakings when imposing a fine? This volume critically assesses decisional practice and addresses pertinent issues ahead of the upcoming ninth German antitrust law amendment.
Antitrust law allows fines to be imposed on undertakings which have often been set up as corporations. Two questions arise from this: what are the principles for attributing the individual conduct of representatives to a corporation and to what extent is it necessary to consider compliance programmes implemented by the respective undertakings when imposing a fine?
This volume critically assesses decisional practice and addresses pertinent issues ahead of the upcoming ninth German antitrust law amendment. The authors reject the idea of a group liability independent from the individual responsibility of the respective group companies, taking the existence of intra-group instruments of supervision over subsidiaries and group-wide compliance programmes into more serious consideration instead.
Authors/Editors

Hauke Brettel ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Kriminologie, Strafrecht und Medizinrecht an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Stephan Thomas ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Bürgerliches Recht, Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Wettbewerbs- und Versicherungsrecht an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

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