According to substantiated data provided by Greece's Directorate-General for Competition, 14 coastal shipping companies, together with the Union of Coastal Shipping Companies (UCSC), are being accused, inter alia, of harmonizing their prices policy, fixing schedules, indirectly fixing freight charges and coordinating policies within the UCSC to cut routes to the Aegean and Dodecanese islands in order to boost shipping line profits.

15. Recalls its resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Green Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules and stresses that the pending legislative proposal in relation thereto should include the content of Parliament's resolution of 26 March 2009 on the White Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules ; stresses the need for the Commission to propose legislation, without watering it down unnecessarily, to facilitate individual and class-action claims for effective compensation for damages resulting from breaches of EU antitrust law; such legalisation must be cross-cutting in nature, avoid the excesses o ...[+++]f the North American system and be adopted using the ordinary legislative procedure (codecision);

15. Recalls its resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Green Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules and stresses that the pending legislative proposal in relation thereto should include the content of Parliament’s resolution of 26 March 2009 on the White Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules; stresses the need for the Commission to propose legislation, without watering it down unnecessarily, to facilitate individual and class-action claims for effective compensation for damages resulting from breaches of EU antitrust law; such legalisation must be cross-cutting in nature, avoid the excesses of ...[+++] the North American system and be adopted using the ordinary legislative procedure (codecision);

15. Recalls its resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Green Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules and stresses that the pending legislative proposal in relation thereto should include the content of Parliament's resolution of 26 March 2009 on the White Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules ; stresses the need for the Commission to propose legislation, without watering it down unnecessarily, to facilitate individual and class-action claims for effective compensation for damages resulting from breaches of EU antitrust law; such legalisation must be cross-cutting in nature, avoid the excesses o ...[+++]f the North American system and be adopted using the ordinary legislative procedure (codecision);

It is also by far the largest fine ever imposed for a so-called vertical infringement i.e., in this case, between a producer and its distributors as opposed to a horizontal cartel between manufacturers of the same product.

Nintendo and John Menzies were, nevertheless, granted large reductions, which stresses the importance the Commission attaches to co-operation by companies that have infringed EC competition law even if this was not through participation in a 'classic' horizontal cartel .