The extensive asphalt cartel trial in Finland attracted the interest of the European Commission and the other EU Member States. By any measure, it was the largest trial in Finland and the largest in the Nordic Countries centred on competition law. Over EUR 120 million was claimed in damages, and even the judgments totalled nearly 10,000 pages.

In 2009, on the proposal of the Finnish Competition Authority, the Supreme Administrative Court ordered seven asphalt companies to pay a total of EUR 82.55 million in fines for their participation in a cartel operating in the Finnish asphalt market from 1994 to 2002.

In forty-one separate claims for damages brought at the Helsinki District Court, the State of Finland and forty local authorities sought compensation from the asphalt companies for the alleged overcharges they had paid for paving work. The companies contested the claims.

The most extensive cartel follow-on damages trial to take place in Finland concluded in November 2013 as the Helsinki District Court gave its judgment on damages in the case. According to the decisions, the State of Finland's claims for damages were dismissed, but the damages to municipalities were partly approved. In its decision, the Court found that, jointly, the defendants must pay altogether EUR 37.4 million in damages. Part of this sum consists of joint liabilities, while the rest is directly apportioned to individual companies. The judgments are appealable to the Court of Appeals of Helsinki.

There are also other currently ongoing follow-on damages trials related to cartels in Finland. Damages trials for the national Spare Parts Cartel were held in fall 2013 in the District Court of Helsinki, and the rulings are expected during spring 2014. The Spare Parts case differs from other cartel damages trials in that the claimant is neither a customer nor a supplier, but instead a competitor claiming to have suffered damage due to a collective boycott. There are also over 700 damages claims related to the Wood Procurement Cartel, and damages claims related to the Hydrogen Peroxide cartel are also pending in the District Court of Helsinki.

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