date:May 28, 2012
All of the firms involved were fined, the EC document added.
Competition law
Elsewhere within the dairy sector, the relationship between farmers and cooperatives has also been questioned under competition law.
Further down the dairy chain, NCAs across the EU, discovered cases where firms had executed strategies to exclude competitors from the retail sector.
Dairy cooperative Arla Foods was fined by the Danish NCA in 2006 after it emerged the firm had paid a marketing contribution to a whole