date:May 28, 2012
According to a European Commission (EC) report, national competition authorities (NCAs) across the 27 European Union (EU) member states have been paying particular attention to the sale of raw milk after several years of raw milk price increases andinstability since 2007.
This has led toa total of 21antitrust NCA investigations in the dairy sector between 2004 and 2011,including cases of buyer cartels and price-fixing.
The EC document,Report on competition law enforcement and market monitori