
On 3 July 2024, the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) imposed a fine exceeding 47 million euros on the private security companies Securitas, G4S and Seris to sanction their participation in a complex cartel scheme in the private security sector. These practices lasting from 2008 until 2020 consisted in price fixing agreements, the distortion of public procurement („bid rigging“) and other tender procedures, as well as no-poaching arrangements. These practices constitute a violation of competition rules, specifically Article IV.1 of the Belgian Code of Economic Law and Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).