"The President of the German Federal Cartel Office, Andreas Mund, has repeatedly pointed out in recent months that the number of leniency applications with which companies voluntarily report cartels to the German Federal Cartel Office and thus uncover them has declined. This obviously applies above all to large corporations with their own legal departments, from which the majority of leniency applications came in the past."

In this expert article, our expert Dr Maxim Kleine provides information on current provisions of cartel law.