On February 19, 2019, European Commission officials swooped on several salmon farm facilities across the EU. As part of what they term an “ex officio antitrust and cartel investigation”, the self-started wave of inspections centred on six Norwegian companies. The decision to carry out that preliminary investigatory step was taken on foot of concerns raised by several market players that the companies may have engaged in anti-competitive practice and violated EU antitrust rules prohibiting cartels. Now, five years later, the Commission has taken another step forward, issuing a statement of objections to the six salmon companies, named for the first…

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