{"id":3603,"date":"2017-04-25T15:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccpc.ie\/business\/?page_id=3603"},"modified":"2017-05-17T17:04:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:04:55","slug":"milk-price-fixing-case-settlement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/enforcement\/civil-competition-enforcement\/civil-court-cases\/milk-price-fixing-case-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlements reached in retail milk price fixing case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"level-2\">\n<div class=\"attachments\">\n<h2>Page Attachment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/2002-12-10-Tesco-Settlement-Terms.pdf\">Tesco Settlement Terms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/2003-07-25-Glanbia-Settlement-Terms.pdf\">Glanbia Settlement Terms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/2003-07-25-Sligo-Dairies-Settlement-Terms.pdf\">Sligo Dairies Settlement Terms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/2004-03-11-Dairygold-Dairies-Settlement-Terms.pdf\">Dairygold Dairies Settlement Terms<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!--\/endattachments-->\n<h3>Outcome of the Court Action<\/h3>\n<p>An association of undertakings can harm consumers by eliminating competition among its members. They can do this by fixing the prices at which its members sell their products. This is a breach of competition law.<\/p>\n<p>Following the initiation of proceedings against various parties over allegations concerning retail price fixing of milk, settlements were reached with Tesco in December 2002, with Glanbia and Sligo Dairies in July 2003 and with Dairygold in March 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"level-2\">\n<h2>Relevant provisions<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishstatutebook.ie\/2002\/en\/act\/pub\/0014\/sec0004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Section 4 of the Competition Act 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/ALL\/?uri=CELEX:12008E101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Page Attachment Tesco Settlement Terms Glanbia Settlement Terms Sligo Dairies Settlement Terms Dairygold Dairies Settlement Terms Outcome of the Court Action An association of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"parent":653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[25,9],"class_list":["post-3603","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-civil-court-cases","tag-enforcement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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