Sentences with phrase «cartel which»

Although the last word on Article 6 needs to be said by the national court who alone is the judge of the risk of irreconcilable judgments, clearly in the AG's mind there is a strong likelihood of such risk in the event of follow - up damages in the case of a cartel which has been found to be illegal by the European Commission and where all members to it have acted within one and the same intent (again, as established by the EC).

the provisions of Article 81 EC and Article 3 (1) of Regulation No 1/2003 must be interpreted as meaning that, in the context of a proceeding initiated after 1 May 2004, they do not apply to a cartel which produced effects, in the territory of a Member State with acceded to the Union on 1 May 2004, during periods prior to that date.

The immunity applicant in the global marine hoses cartel which gave rise to the first UK prosecution of the criminal cartel offence

Take down a drug cartel which is practically running the whole country — there were a lot of topics to touch upon and explore, while providing some interesting commentary as well.

The Koperasi Angkutan Laut (Sea Transport Co-operative) is the boat owner cartel which monopolizes transport to the islands.

They have join Vios and City cartel which also don't have temperature gauges.

This is the actions of a cartel which has been outlawed as the most dubious of practice in any business sector.

Each city as its own taxi cartel which raise prices and legally and artificially raises the cost of taxies in those cities.

But more importantly, SegWit opens the door to methods of collusion and mining cartels which could undermine the bitcoin network.

There are numerous risks with SegWit, but one in particular needs more attention: SegWit opens the door to methods of collusion and mining cartels which could undermine the bitcoin network.

Not exact matches

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

The purported cooperation, some details of which were revealed by a Sinaloa cartel figure on trial in the US, reached a peak in the late 2000s, a period when the Sinaloa cartel ascended to primacy among Mexican drug - trafficking organizations.

Either Belaruskali is flexing its muscles and showing off its independence from Uralkali, which means negotiations on reforming the cartel are likely to be protracted and could fail, or Belaruskali is joining Uralkali in the new potash world, abandoning market discipline to compete for market share based on price.

Shading indicates areas of cartel control, with darker - colored areas indicating population density, which is a sign of a potentially deep market for narcotics.

But it's also worth watching the key decision makers both in and out of the cartel as we approach the next OPEC meeting in May, during which producers will decide whether to extend the November output reduction agreement for another six months.

Security analysts pin the spiraling violence on fights over heroin production, which cartels have turned to as several U.S. states loosen their marijuana laws.

The cash - rich cartels, believed by the Mexican government to generate well over $ 21 billion each year, are an increasing threat to Pemex, which in 2016 reported revenue of about $ 52 billion and generates about a fifth of government income.

Caro Quintero, nicknamed «the prince» and «the narco of narcos,» was one of three leaders of the Guadalajara cartel, which dominated the Mexican drug trade in the 1970s and 1980s.

The interlopers included major gangs like the Zetas, the Knights Templar and a successor cartel known as the Michoacan Family, to which the people who extorted Arredondo claimed to belong.

In the years after their arrests, the Guadalajara cartel split, and from it emerged, among others, the Sinaloa, Tijuana, and Juarez cartels, which have dominated Mexico's drug trade in the years since.

The Zetas wanted to control the criminal businesses that they had opened and wanted to open up the plaza owned by the Gulf Cartel to other businesses like human smuggling, which would later translate into several different massacres, including the execution of 72 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas.

In this case, the black - and - white evidence against the cartel was revealed in the form of damaging email communications which included statements such as «with a bit of talking and cooperation between us, we all win!»

The CJNG, which is relatively new and also emerged from a faction of the Sinaloa cartel, appears to have expanded in some areas of the US, including Southern California, South Florida, and the Northeast.

The report depicts shifts in cartel presence in the US — most notably the disappearance of the Knights Templar, which «is still regarded as a viable [transnational criminal organization] in Mexico,» though the «DEA assesses it does not have a major impact on the drug trafficking landscape within the United States.»

The turf war that erupted after the capture of Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman appears to have spread to the area, which is an entry and transshipment point for narcotics.

Conflict in Guerrero over heroin production has reportedly been stoked by the Sinaloa cartel, which is arguably Mexico's most powerful criminal organization and is believed to control most of the heroin trade in the state.

Cartel attacks against Mexican security forces, which had previously been a rare occurrence, have increased, perhaps as a result of the CJNG's influence.

SINGAPORE, May 3 (Reuters)- Oil prices fell early on Thursday, pulled down by a rise in U.S. crude inventories and record weekly U.S. production, which is countering efforts by producer cartel OPEC to cut supplies and prop up prices.

It could also be that the Law Societies in the 13 provinces and territories, which are entrusted with regulating the legal profession in the public interest, actually appear to be functioning more like cartels.

Vicente Zambada's father, Ismael Zambada García — a former farmhand from Culiacán, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa (from which the cartel gets its name)-- is not nearly as well known as his internationally notorious partner in crime, Joaquín Guzmán.

Nothing is more important to advancing freedom in the global economy and the liberties of the world's peoples than is breaking up the powerful cartel of businesses and governments in the U.S. and E.U. which have created and administer those rules for the world they have established to serve their own interests.

The cartel, which controls more than a third of world output, plans to limit daily production to between 32.5 million barrels and 33 million barrels, down from 33.2 million barrels.

Funding its ballooning deficit, which can't be plugged with asset sales and debt issuance alone, and improving its economic situation are partly why Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in the OPEC oil cartel, disagreed to any cut in production at the December OPEC meeting, and more recently has been discounting the price of oil to its customers.

United States officials had been shaken by tape recordings in which people identified as leaders of the Cali cartel were heard discussing contributions of millions of dollars to Mr. Samper's presidential campaign.

The first quarter of 2018 is the last quarter in which OPEC's cuts would be in effect, if the cartel doesn't extend or deepen production reductions.

And food security is protected by regulation of what we allow as ingredients in both what we produce and what we import, which we do for all of our other food — not through cartel economics.

The Medellin cartel, which Lehder co-founded, had close links with Noriega, who allowed it to ship cocaine through Panama for a reported $ 100,000 (# 68,000) a load.

San Francisco is also located in the jurisdiction of the US government and the US banking system, which are married and form the world's largest financial cartel, which for convenience I will refer to as the Dollar Monopoly.

Singapore: Oil prices fell early on Thursday, pulled down by a rise in US crude inventories and record weekly US production, which is countering efforts by producer cartel OPEC to cut supplies and prop up prices.

For comparison's sake, the cartel, which controls a third of all oil production, agreed to a reduction of 2.2 million barrels a day in 2008.

As Business Week describes consolidation «It was inaugurated during the dealmaking 1980s, which left airlines, tires, and appliances in the hands of virtual cartels.

The competition regulator claims to have busted apart a cartel in which Woolworths conspired with three multinational consumer goods companies to push up prices in the $ 500 million market for laundry detergents.

«The ACCC is committed to pursuing cartel conduct which can cause significant harm to consumers, other businesses, and the competitive process the economy depends on,» Mr Sims said.

On 15 April 2011 the Australian Financial Review included a piece (Duncan Hughes, «ACCC boss stands firm on cartels», AFR, page 48) in which ACCC Chairman, Graeme Samuel, claimed that the «proposed government reforms to ban price signalling are entirely consistent with best practice in Europe and the US».

Lawyers weekly has an item discussing Allen & Overy's Global Cartel Enforcement report which predicts the ACCC will be more active in cartel enforcement in the second half ofCartel Enforcement report which predicts the ACCC will be more active in cartel enforcement in the second half ofcartel enforcement in the second half of 2017.

The allegations were first made on Irish television, RTE's Prime Time programme, which suggested an illegal cartel in the Irish dairy industry during the 1990s was involved in price - fixing, which cost the consumer tens of millions over the years.

The people who lose out from cartels are Australian consumers and other Australian businesses, particularly small businesses, which are playing by the rules.

The ACCC has appealed the Federal Court's decision in December last year in which it dismissed the ACCC's claims that PZ Cussons had engaged in cartel conduct in relation to laundry detergents.

Does the proposed drafting of section 44ZZRS appropriately limit the exception to the cartels provisions to supply arrangements which are genuinely vertical, and exclude arrangements which are between actual or likely competitors?

In fact, he sat there on the political sarcophagus as a ventriloquist dummy as members of the political cartel of which he was a member looted the nation with reckless abandon.