Leniency Programmes: Advancing Detection and Deterrence of Cartels” taking place at the June 2023 session of the OECD …Leniency programmes are a powerful detection tool for competition authorities. Over the period 2015-2021, the number of … leniency applications in OECD jurisdictions dropped by 58% and the same trend can be observed across most regions. This Note …

This paper sets out the theoretical foundations for a leniency programme, the key pre-conditions for a leniency policy … to work, the challenges of coordinating leniency programmes with other cartel enforcement policies and deals with … challenges that companies and competition authorities face for international cartels. It was prepared as a background note for a …

This paper was prepared as a background note for a discussion held in December 2014 on the Use of Markers in Leniency … Programmes. It focuses on markers which are particular feature of some leniency programmes that records the date and time of an …’s position in line if it meets all of the other criteria of the leniency programme. …