Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Authors’ Affiliations
- Acknowledgment
- Part I General Chapters
- Part II Country Reports
- 17 Competition Law Sanctions in Austria
- 18 Antitrust Enforcement in Belgium
- 19 The Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions: Brazil
- 20 The Present Situation and Improvement Direction of the Sanction System in China’s Anti-monopoly Law
- 21 Application of the 2006 Guidelines on Fines by the European Commission and the Union Courts
- 22 Competition Law Sanctions in Germany
- 23 Competition Law Sanctions in Hungary
- 24 Competition Law Sanctions in Indonesia and a Comparison to Other ASEAN Member States
- 25 Competition Law Sanctions in Italy
- 26 Competition Law Sanctions in Japan
- 27 Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions: Kenya
- 28 The Enforcement of Competition Law in the Netherlands
- 29 A Barking Dog Seldom Bites
- 30 Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions
- 31 Competition Law Sanctions in Spain
- 32 The Swedish Competition Law Enforcement System
- 33 Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions: Turkey
- 34 Competition Law Sanctions in the United Kingdom
- References
19 - The Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions: Brazil
from Part II - Country Reports
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Authors’ Affiliations
- Acknowledgment
- Part I General Chapters
- Part II Country Reports
- 17 Competition Law Sanctions in Austria
- 18 Antitrust Enforcement in Belgium
- 19 The Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions: Brazil
- 20 The Present Situation and Improvement Direction of the Sanction System in China’s Anti-monopoly Law
- 21 Application of the 2006 Guidelines on Fines by the European Commission and the Union Courts
- 22 Competition Law Sanctions in Germany
- 23 Competition Law Sanctions in Hungary
- 24 Competition Law Sanctions in Indonesia and a Comparison to Other ASEAN Member States
- 25 Competition Law Sanctions in Italy
- 26 Competition Law Sanctions in Japan
- 27 Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions: Kenya
- 28 The Enforcement of Competition Law in the Netherlands
- 29 A Barking Dog Seldom Bites
- 30 Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions
- 31 Competition Law Sanctions in Spain
- 32 The Swedish Competition Law Enforcement System
- 33 Effectiveness of Competition Law Sanctions: Turkey
- 34 Competition Law Sanctions in the United Kingdom
- References
Summary
The Brazilian report describes the wide range of sanctions available to the Brazilian Competition Authority. It presents the public debate between two commissioners about the appropriate method of calculating fines proportionate to the wrongdoing. The authors suggest that Brazil can improve the level of effectiveness of the antitrust policy beyond raising fines. It would be important to incorporate in the antitrust law the specific sanction of a director disqualification order, to create double damages, establish the offense’s duration as a statutory basis for the fine calculation, and create exemptions for leniency beneficiaries to double damages. They also recommend establishing the economic group’s gross turnover as the statutory basis for the fine calculation (instead of the imprecise turnover in the relevant market). Finally, they advocate raising to four to eight years (currently two to five years) the criminal imprisonment penalty for collusion and conspiracy, and including in the criminal law the revocation of the corporate license for trade as an ancillary penalty to be applied by the criminal courts.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions , pp. 335 - 354Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022