Antitrust Compliance Survey - Please Take!

 

Dear Reader,

Along with professors in Germany, I am undertaking a survey on antitrust/competition law (herein “antitrust”) compliance programs relating to cartel conduct compliance.

I need your help.  The survey is for in house counsel and compliance officers who are involved in cartel compliance. 

• If you are such a compliance professional, please take the survey here. 
• If you are outside counsel, a government enforcer or academic, do not take the survey.  However, please forward the survey to as many people in our target audience as possible.

The survey collects information on the measures used by firms to ensure that their employees, officers and directors comply with antitrust laws. 

Firms from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland participated in a previous version of the survey. The results of this prior research were returned to the participating companies, which allowed them to further improve their compliance programs by benchmarking them against the efforts of compliance front-runners. The outcomes of our prior study also provide a basis for firms' discussion with competition authorities whether compliance efforts should be recognized as a mitigating factor when setting antitrust fines. 

Your participation in the survey will help us to establish these benefits also for your company in the markets and jurisdictions where it operates. Your answers will be held strictly confidential. They will enable us to enhance the scientific groundwork of compliance and generate opportunities to further improve the effectiveness of compliance measures. The results of our survey will be published in mid 2015.

Additional information on the survey can be found on the following pages. In case of questions please do not hesitate to email Dr. Paha.

The antitrust compliance survey project is a research collaboration of academics at the University of Florida and Justus-Liebig-University (Giessen, Germany): 

• Georg Götz (full professor, Justus-Liebig-University)
• Daniel Sokol (full professor, University of Florida)
• Johannes Paha (assistant professor, Justus-Liebig-University)
• Daniel Herold (research associate, Justus-Liebig-University)