{"id":12929,"date":"2019-07-11T17:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proacomunicacion.es\/?p=12929"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:47:31","slug":"companies-can-be-penalised-for-mistakes-of-their-employees-in-competitive-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proacomunicacion.es\/en\/companies-can-be-penalized-for-mistakes-of-their-employees-in-competitive-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Companies can be penalised for mistakes of their employees in competitive activities\"."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 Petitb\u00f2, 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\".<\/p>\n<p>Professor Petitb\u00f2 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\". 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