Would be a lot better if these were public cases with public hearings, I agree. I believe they do their research like a detective would, and then decide for themselves wether EU citizens were hurt and if so what percentage of the company would scare them enough to change their behaviour. There are laws on the maximum penalty and such, but weirdly enough these antitrust cases never seem very transparent to me.
How can they just “limit the fines”? Aren’t they set by a court?
No i think it’s more of a commission/ institute that fines them.
Ok, I would have thought they are somehow legally binding nonetheless
There is a ton of discretion given to agencies when they impose fines hence why lobby is so lucrative ;)
Would be a lot better if these were public cases with public hearings, I agree. I believe they do their research like a detective would, and then decide for themselves wether EU citizens were hurt and if so what percentage of the company would scare them enough to change their behaviour. There are laws on the maximum penalty and such, but weirdly enough these antitrust cases never seem very transparent to me.