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15AI. Immunity from administrative financial sanctions

(1) Each competent authority shall put in place a programme (in this Part referred to as a 'leniency programme') enabling it to grant leniency to undertakings in exchange for -

(a) disclosing their participation in a cartel, and

(b) voluntarily cooperating, independently of the other undertakings involved in the cartel, with an investigation of the competent authority concerning the application of relevant competition law.

(2) Each competent authority shall prepare a policy as to how it will operate its leniency programme, which policy may include different policies or approaches in respect of different sectors or economic activities.

(3) The leniency programme may also address the approach of the competent authority when exercising its power to grant leniency in respect of other infringements of relevant competition law.

(4) Each competent authority shall publish its leniency programme by placing a notice in relation to it, together with the entire text of the programme, on a website

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