Leniency Carrots and Cartel Sticks – A Practitioners’ View on Recent Trends and Challenges Presented by The EU Leniency Program

By Christian Ritz & Lorenz Marx – 

In the past 25 years, leniency programs have been established in more than 80 jurisdictions across the globe. The overall purpose of such programs is to create incentives for cartelists to “blow the whistle” and to fully cooperate with the authorities to uncover and sanction the cartel. Leniency programs are a very important tool in the fight against cartels. However, such programs have currently come under pressure from various directions. This