Compliance und Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit im Kartellrecht

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.