date:May 28, 2012
gated.
The EC has investigated several instances of collusion between raw milk buyers during this period, including one occasion where the Greek NCA uncovered an exchange of price lists and the coordination of discount policies relating to raw milk between members of a buyer cartel.
Elsewhere, cartels were uncovered in Bulgaria and Lithuania after it emerged that information on raw milk purchase quantities had been exchanged and agreements on purchasing prices had been made for the commodity.