| 1 | Competition compliance toolkit A toolkit to guide users through PLC's EU, UK, US and international content on competition compliance. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | EU cartels and restrictive agreements: a quick guide A quick guide to the application of EU competition law to cartel activity and restrictive agreements or practices. This is one of a series of quick guides, see Quick guides. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | EU competition law: overview The overview provides a route-map guide to the EU competition law regime. It outlines the key legal, procedural and practical aspects likely to be encountered when confronting a competition law problem. You should read this at the start of any transaction or specific research, to give you a broad overview of the main points that are likely to arise. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | UK cartels and restrictive agreements: a quick guide A quick guide to the application of UK competition law to cartel activity and restrictive agreements or practices.This is one of a series of quick guides, see Quick guides. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | US Antitrust Laws: Overview This Practice Note provides an overview and introduction to the main statutory provisions in the US, the US antitrust regulatory structure, the role of private antitrust enforcement and certain key concepts relevant to the application of US antitrust law. Antitrust analysis is highly fact specific and, while providing a useful starting point, the principles outlined in this Note are necessarily general in nature and do not address any of the subject matters discussed in detail. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 6 | Antitrust Compliance Programs This Note outlines the key issues related to creating and maintaining an antitrust compliance program. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Cartels: EU law and practice A Practice note considering the application of Article 101(1) to cartels, reviewing the European Commission's investigation procedure and its policy for imposing fines and granting leniency and looking at practical issues that may arise. See also Summary of EU cartel cases. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Cartels: UK law and practice This Practice Note examines how cartels and their participants are treated under the provisions of the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002. It reviews the Office of Fair Trading's investigation procedure and its policy for imposing fines and granting leniency and looks at practical issues that may arise. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Competition regime: The Enterprise Act 2002 cartel offence This Practice note looks at the criminal offence introduced by the Enterprise Act 2002 in respect of individuals who engage in hardcore cartel activity. It also considers the scope of the offence and its application, the possibility of immunity and the way in which the offence, and the way it is investigated, interacts with the civil competition law regime. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 10 | Criminal Antitrust Enforcement in the US This Practice Note provides an overview of the legislation and policies relevant to criminal antitrust enforcement in the US, and discusses practical issues facing a company that discovers it is the potential target of a criminal investigation. Among other things, the Note addresses the potential criminal penalties for antitrust violations, and outlines the Department of Justice Antitrust Division's leniency program, by which companies and individuals can receive amnesty from criminal prosecution by reporting illegal antitrust activity and cooperating with the government's investigation. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | DOJ and FTC Antitrust Investigations This Note outlines the course of antitrust investigations conducted by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission before they start enforcement proceedings. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 12 | European Commission fining policy in cartel cases This Practice note considers the European Commission's policy when imposing fines in cartel cases. It examines the steps that the Commission will take in setting fines and discusses, with examples, the principles applied by the European Courts in their assessment of fines on appeal. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | European Commission settlement procedure in cartel cases This Practice note explains the European Commission's policy for early settlement in cartel cases, and the procedure whereby parties to a cartel investigation can settle a case by admitting liability for their involvement in the cartel in exchange for a shorter administrative procedure and a reduction in fines. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Leniency Program for Antitrust Violations An outline of the US Department of Justice's leniency program for antitrust violations. Under this program, companies and individuals can receive amnesty from criminal prosecution of antitrust offenses by reporting illegal activity and cooperating with the government's investigation. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 15 | OFT powers to enter and search premises This Practice note explains when Office of Fair Trading (OFT) officials have the power to enter business and domestic premises in relation to competition and criminal investigations under respectively the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002. It details the powers of OFT officials once they have entered the premises and describes the procedures that OFT officials will usually apply when entering and searching premises under the Competition Act. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 16 | The European Commission's leniency policy This Practice note examines the provisions of the European Commission's 2006 Leniency Notice and the procedures in place for applying to the Commission for leniency in cartel cases. The note also considers the Model Leniency Programme published in 2006 by the European Competition Network and convergence between the leniency policies of the Commission and EU member states. | Practice notes | Maintained |