Anti-Cartel Enforcement Manual Chapter 4: Cartel Case Initiation (2021)

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Practical Tools

Working Group:

Cartel

Author:

ICN

Date:

2010; updated 2021

This Anti-Cartel Enforcement Manual chapter draws together selected key practices used in the initiation of a cartel investigation, and identifies some strategies that may be applied in the detection stage and throughout the early development of a case. It will also highlight some of the more established practices useful to cartel case initiation. The chapter is divided into three parts: (1) Methods of detecting cartels; (2) Pre-investigatory phase of cartel allegations and (3) Decision to initiate a full scale investigation.

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