Why co-operation is essential

MORE than 180 anti-trust cases, 1,300 merger decisions, and 100 monitoring actions have been investigated by competition authorities in the EU food industry in seven years.

The authorities have taken action against more than 50 cartels, including, for example, a food manufacturer setting a minimum price at which retailers had to sell its products.

The authorities carried out 21 anti-trust investigations in the EU dairy sector in seven years.