The auto companies auto companies BMW, Daimler and VW have taken according to the findings of the EU-competition authorities of illegal collusion to technologies of exhaust gas cleaning. This is the EU Commission announced on Friday in Brussels on the Basis of the preliminary results of the investigation. The company can now respond to the charges. A penalty in the billions is imminent.
The EU Commission had begun to 2017 preliminary studies of the car manufacturers, and was also with the manufacturers of representations. The formal investigation it had initiated in 2018.
The Individual should have the auto makers with the introduction of SCR catalysts for diesel engines, and of fine dust-particulate filters for petrol engines (OPF) in an unauthorized manner agreed. These agreements had been taken at a Meeting of the automobile manufacturers in the so-called 5-circles.
The company had restricted competition in innovation in Europe in the case of these two exhaust gas cleaning systems, and the consumer is thus denied the opportunity to buy environmentally – friendly vehicles- even though they had the technology, shared with the competition authorities. If confirmed definitively, would it not be a violation of European antitrust law – even if it were price-fixing.
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order of Possible violations of environmental regulations were not part of the process, it said. The investigations were, in addition, regardless of ongoing investigations about of prosecutors to use improper shutdown of the facilities of the car manufacturer.
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BMW, Daimler, VW, EU-Commission has exacerbated antitrust investigation against the automotive companies
Both Daimler as well as Volkswagen had to be made after learning of the allegations last year, the request for leniency. The key witness in antitrust proceedings can leave on the biggest criminal or even the criminal of freedom of hope. In the extreme case, up to ten percent of the annual worldwide turnover can be due. (dpa)