European Parliament and Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs 18 January 2000, European Parliament resolution on the Commission's XXVIIIth Report on competition policy 1998 (SEC(1999) 743 - C5-0121/1999 — 1999/2124(COS))

25. Considers it necessary to clarify further the rules on small and medium-sized enterprises and to protect such enterprises from possibly dubious penalty procedures, so that only wilful and grossly negli- gent violations of the cartel prohibition are penalised with fines, as well as extending the cases in which cooperation between small and medium-sized enterprises should not be regarded as an