OECD Competition Law and Policy 232d ago

Most people think of cartels as businesses fixing prices; however, they can also form on the buying side. Supermarkets might collude to pay farmers less. Hospitals could co-ordinate to squeeze down doctors’ fees. In labour markets, employers can fix wages or agree not to hire from each other. In this video, Maria Pilar Canedo (Academic Director of the OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition), Alessio Aresu (Case Handler, European Commission DG COMP ) and Vivien Terrien (Vice-president, French Competition Authority) describe how buyer cartels operate in the labour markets and provide examples of two real cases. The series “Key competition topics explained in a few minutes” is a training initiative by the OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest, which builds on the discussions from its seminars to create short, focused videos on key competition notions. Access the series playlist at https://bit.ly/gvh-comp-videos Learn more about the OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition at http://oe.cd/rcc-eeca. The video was developed to illustrate a Judges’ Lab on Non-Cartel Agreements organised by the OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest in May 2025 with financial support from the European Union. It reflects only the authors’ views, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. More on the work of the Centre: https://oe.cd/rcc-eeca European Commission’s Food Delivery Cartel: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1356 French Competition Authority’s No-poach Agreement: https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/en/press-release/no-poach-practices-autorite-de-la-concurrence-fines-four-companies-engineering More on OECD work on competition: https://oe.cd/competition Music: Chillout by AudioCoffee | https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/