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"Companies can be penalised for mistakes of their employees in competitive activities".

Companies must know that they can be sanctioned for any prohibited activity that their employees perform with regards to competition and that fines can be up to 10% of their sales figures of the previous year. That was the resounding message that Amadeo Petitbò, former spokesperson and president of the Competition Defense Court, wanted to convey during his speech at the last edition of the Degussa Forum (Degussa Meetings), held this week at the company's headquarters in Madrid under the title "Watch out! The CNMV can sanction me".

Professor Petitbò explained in a very didactic or instructive way and using real cases a series of forbidden behaviors that many times "neither managers nor employees were aware of". Some behaviors with which, he said, "we must be very careful because breaching legislation that regulates competition, overseen by the National Commission of Markets and Competition, can be expensive and have a high reputational cost".

Times Keep Changing

The spur that has infected our lives has also infiltrated politics. One month in the 21st century is much more than a year of the twentieth century, and a year equals a decade. While the no-confidence motion that sprung Pedro Sánchez into power from the hands of a heterogeneous group of...

Manuel López Torrents -- "Corporate governance is rusty, it prevents the circularity of the economy".

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-- Conversation with Oscar winner Sergio López-Rivera

Valvanuz Serna Ruiz, managing partner of PROA, talks to Oscar winner Sergio López-Rivera about the importance of giving light to the creativity of children who cannot find their place. She pays tribute to eight-year-old Sergio, who has courageously helped her to achieve Oscar gold....

New year, new password?

The beginning of the year is a good time to change the passwords on devices and applications for which we want to maintain a high level of security, or in any case to avoid using the same passwords, as always, as a precaution. There are various methods that can be used to attack...

A discreet, prepared monarch with a high sense of statehood

Those of us who have had to represent Spain, all its political and cultural expressions, and its varied economic interests, have had to learn - because one is not born with this ability - to speak - regardless of our ideas - of these expressions, with impartiality, with neutrality in political polemics; to...

Carlos Uriarte and José Ribeiro -- 35 years since Spain and Portugal joined the EEC

On 12 June 1985, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Accession to the European Communities, with ceremonies taking place in the morning at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon and in the afternoon at the Royal Palace in Madrid. They became part of the most important political project of the...

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